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The head of Rolls-Royce has called the British government To return plans for an engine To provide electricity to the next generation of narrow body aircraft, mainly used for small flights.
FTSE 100 Aero-Inzon Group Chief Executive Officer Tuffan Ergin Billugia said that he would like to “support the government’s upcoming industrial strategy” competitively advanced industries.
Erginbilgiç said that when he was not calling the government to take the individual industrial champion, Rolls-Royce was still “specific” in two areas: gas turbine engine that electric aircraft and nuclear, especially small modular reactors.
“I am not suggesting them should choose who loses, who wins – but if something is clear, you support, you give it a push,” he told reporters at Paris Air Show on Tuesday.
He said that major industries and large infrastructure projects would help maintain a country’s competition in some areas, and they said, and can also help the UK, which has fought to improve its productivity.
A consortium led by Rolls-Royce was chosen as the only favorite bidder to achieve this month State support to develop a fleet of small reactors In Britain.
Rolls-Royce believes that its project to develop a new engine can produce around 40,000 skilled jobs-in a company and comprehensive supply chain-and can generate more as £ 120BN for the UK economy in the life’s lifetime.
Financial Times reported in April that she was interacting with the company UK officials help in funding £ 3BN development Of a new engine.
Rolls-Royce currently produces engines that power especially large, broad body aircraft such as Airbus A350 jets and 787 of Boeing. Rolls-Royce left the narrow-body market more than a decade ago when it was taken out of a joint venture with the US Prat and Whitney.
The company said that last year it started working on the “Scale-Down” protestor of its new ultrafan engine, which would be specially designed to provide electricity to the next generation narrow-body aircraft.
Erginbillugia said on Tuesday that the company was interacting with potential partners to develop a new engine.
He said that it is “still true” that Rolls-Royce wanted to return to the narrow-body area, he said. “If there is a partnership, I think I will see both the world’s best.”
The protesters will be ready in two years, Agnilgia said.
