WTF!!!!! Mad technology.

Always makes me laugh when tv and newspapers "Technology" sections are basically about mobile phones and computer games.

Beat me to posting about the program.

Its like engineering porn.

Whilst it watches like a big RR advert,there is no doubt that the engineering involved is immense.

Nothing quite like big shiny bits of metal fitting together with precision.

Would you like to try again, and see if you can make a full sentence?

I hate flying but the technology fascinates me. This is stunning!

I'd like a bit more focus on the technology rather than the human interest slant personally. But the bit about inflating the fan blades was pretty amazing.

Bet they could make a mean Ti frame 😉

Try dealing with them as a customer! 😉

yup but they didn't tell you that they desperately want to get into CF Fan-Blades like Pratt but cant quite manage it yet….. 🙂

2nd what Ian say's, less corny stuff about humans, more about the metal!

You want to see what they do up at Everett. I had a guided tour a while back (not the public one!) and I was dumbfounded by the engineering that goes on there!

Bet they could make a mean Ti frame

Hmmmm inflated titanium frame. . . . .

my mate works at the barlick factory making the fan blades, knowing him Im not so sure I want to get on a plane again!

Amazing bit when they blew the engine up!

Good telly, but as above – I really didn't want to know that the woman in logistics is in the RR ladies choir!

More metal, less mental.

cranberry. No ta, my part sentences succinctly put across my point.

Grammer be dammed.

Carbon Fibre fan blades? I thought that's what nearly did them in 1971 on the original RB211 programme.

Carbon Fibre fan blades? I thought that's what nearly did them in 1971 on the original RB211 programme.

Yup, it is. But its still the holy grail as lighter fan blade =lighter fan case = less fuel

Pratt use them. GE may do to on some engines, not sure

Grammer be dammed.

Stone him! Though only with small rocks as he did manage not to put multiple exclamation marks at the end.

Grammer be dammed

Fail.

I remember the 1st time I ever flew. As I went up the steps to the aircraft I saw the logo 'Rolls Royce' on the engine cowling. Somehow made me feel very safe!
Then when I flew to Canada the aircraft was called 'Sir Frank Whittle', (KLM 747), felt safe then as well. Dunno why It would make any difference but it did!

Only watched around 20 minutes of this but as my late father in law was a chief technician on Bucaneers and Nimrods at Lossie I felt strangely proud of our country.

It makes a mockery of those who claim we don't make anything in this country anymore.

The human interest dimension is there to demonstrate how integral companies like RR (and BAE last week) are to particular communities. If big companies like those go out of business entire towns will be economically and socially decimated (see coal, steel, ship building etc). A more cynical person than i would say it is the left-wing BBC making a point to the new government. Perhaps they should do a series on the complex nature of parts of the public sector.

I am now a little upset that I sold all my shares 10 years back 🙁 It's nice to feel a tiny, probably meaningless affiliation with so great a company.

Did you see the welding on the fan blades on that massive fan thing at the end? If I saw that on a bike frame I'd point and laugh

Or are they glued into the middle bit?

Most of my riding buddies work at RR Barnoldswick – they are all concientious and proud of what they do (and well paid with a good pension to look forward to). Hope Tech was started by two ex-Rolls engineers and did sub contract work for them at one time, I believe, as do a lot of local firms. Those factory processes can be noisy sometimes – having lived overlooking it I have been known to curse RR occaisionally!

I spotted that weld too and wondered about it.

I have been round the Bentley factory a couple of times (same sort of attitudes on show) and the thing that struck me was there were hardly any brown faces there. And I noticed it on the Rolls-Royce programme too.

Damnit, I missed it. Is it repeated? iPlayer?

totally blew me away

the casting for the intake fins was unreal…

and they can recieve data form the engines when in flight.

mental stuff

quite amazing stuff, though the narrator has one of those annoyingly patronising voices!

what channel/time/title is it please…

Absolutely brilliant programme.

Copper Dragon brewery (Skipton) is owned and run by an ex-Rolls engineer so next time you're enjoying a pint of it have a quick toast to first class British engineering, good beer and bike bits.

I'm a plane bore and always have a glance out of the window when flying long haul to see if I'm being pushed along by RR (hurrah!) or GE (boo!).

a few years ago I help build and install some engine run data acquisition hardware..

got to see an engine test. – holy shite mad to be that close to an engine on static test bed…nuts

was also a nutcase guy at RR in Derby who commuted in a twin hillman imp engine motorcycle – the 'Benton V8' – well not quite a V8 two cranks geared together…

info for programme here

Hillman Imps had one of the best engines ever – the Coventry Climax, that's why he's got them on his bike.

Grammer be dammed.

Stone him! Though only with small rocks as he did manage not to put multiple exclamation marks at the end.

Shall one get one's coat?

😀

Hillman Imps had one of the best engines ever – the Coventry Climax, that's why he's got them on his bike.

I know they are good :wink:, I converted one to run on efi and programmable spark… vroom vroom

for my Imp and later my Clan

Did they solve the conveyor problem?

Surprisingly interesting, but did anyone else think that the premise for the series is 'save British manufacturing'?

Surprisingly interesting, but did anyone else think that the premise for the series is 'save British manufacturing'?

not a bad premise to make, only the other day some forum user was made redundant due to the hackney cab manufacturing moving over to the far east.

Ha a motorbike with two hillman imp engines, I remember one of those running at the drag strip at Blackbush in about 1977 – I was a kid & my Dad took me along, its the only thing I really remember of all the cars & bikes the bloke trying to get the power done on it …

Sorry for the hijack, I have the RR prog recorded for tonights viewing

yer i missed the program as well as other half said engines were dull