TECHNOLOGY REPORT | AEROSPACE


R The new crane in the NASA Operations Checkout building, with the old crane beside it.


A350, and A380, as well as the Boeing 777 and 787 Dreamliner. Last year Rolls-Royce successfully completed the first engine run at its new £90 million Testbed 80 in Derby, which is now the largest - and smartest - indoor aerospace testbed installation in the world. A Rolls-Royce Trent XWB jet engine was lifted into place, run, and monitored, marking a major milestone on the project which has been under construction for almost three years. The covered testbed has an internal area


of 7,500m2, making it larger than a football pitch. (The building has to be large, since it is running jet engines at full power inside.) It has been designed to test not only today’s engines but also Rolls-Royce’s UltraFan demonstrator, which is its blueprint for the next generation of ultra-efficient engines, as well as the hybrid or all-electric systems which are hoped to power flights of the future. It can accommodate engines of all sizes up to 155klbf thrust, - which would be enough to launch a Boeing 747 with just one huge engine. Street Crane, based at nearby Chapel-


en-le-Frith, installed the cranes for the Testbed 80. To lift jet engines into position they put in two 8t underslung cranes with two ZX monorail hoists on the same track. Tight space constraints and feedback to the building control system made the installation particularly challenging says Mark Hadfield, marketing manager, Sreet Crane. Because of the tight headroom


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