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Citation
(1999), "Nimrod's BR710 engine completes altitude testing", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 71 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.1999.12771bab.039
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
Nimrod's BR710 engine completes altitude testing
Nimrod's BR710 engine completes altitude testing
Keywords Rolls-Royce, Testing
The BMW Rolls-Royce BR710 Mk101 has passed an important milestone within its development programme by completing altitude testing at the Defence Equipment Research Authority (DERA) test site at Pyestock.
The engine is being developed for the Royal Air Force's next-generation maritime reconnaissance aircraft, the Nimrod MRA4. Rolls-Royce plc, the aerospace, defence and energy group, is responsible for the powerplant and jetpipe, which embodies the BR710 engine supplied by BMW Rolls-Royce.
Selected by the Ministry of Defence in 1996, the BR710 Mk101 will have completed a range of tests by summer 1999 that will allow it to be certified and to fly in the new Nimrod variant in 2000.