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April 21, 2026
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Rolls-Royce has met the target of running the UltraFan technology demonstrator at full power before the end of this year. The engine maker said in a pre-Dubai Airshow release that the test has been completed successfully at the Testbed 80 in Derby, but didn’t specify when this was done.

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UltraFan started ground tests on April 24, which was only publicly announced in May. During a pre-Paris Airshow media briefing in Dahlewitz near Berlin in June, Simon Burr, Director of Engineering & Technology, explained that Rolls-Royce was taking a step-by-step approach to testing.

 

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