Rolls Royce Jet

The story of the thousands of people who design, build and test jet engines at Rolls-Royce's manufacturing plants across the UK, and the astonishing technology behind the engines.

Sam Chui visited the Rolls Royce Engine factory in Derby, England in January. This episode takes a detailed look at how Rolls Royce builds the XWB engine, the exclusive engine on Airbus A350. We also take a look at the various engine test bed sites, including their latest test site bed 80 which is under construction. In the vlog Rolls Royce explain what went wrong with their Trent 1000 engines on the Boeing 787, also their future plans for the much bigger Ultra Fan Engine.

Rolls-Royce is not only a legendary automotive brand, they're also one of the largest manufacturers of aircraft engines producing the revolutionary Trent XWB, one of the world's most powerful, efficient and eco-friendly jet engines.

The inside story of the engineering company, looking at how the firm founded by Charles Rolls and Henry Royce created the ultimate in luxury car brands and designed the Merlin engine, which was key to the Allied air victory in 1945. But it was also the aero engine division that brought Rolls-Royce down, when the ill-fated RB211 jet caused the company to go bankrupt in 1971.

Rolls-Royce has been in Derby for over a century. They don't make cars here though, they make jet engines. Dennis, the manager of the department that assembles the engines, says that they breathe life into metal and make people's dreams come true. He has been with the company since 1976 and is currently overseeing the assembly of the 1000th Trent XWB jet engine.