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  1. tarunraju

    Brexit, EU referendum

    A330neo and A350XWB dwarf A380 orders, and Airbus has over 450 in its order book for those ($130 billion at 70% of list price). Both planes have RR Trent as the only engine option. A single Trent XWB-79B (the default/only engine for the A350-900) costs 1.5x that of the Trent 970, which powers...
  2. tarunraju

    Brexit, EU referendum

    You brought up the premise of the British aerospace industry collapsing as a consequence of Brexit. I pointed out that Airbus will collapse with it. I'm trying to say that British aerospace industry will be unaffected by Brexit because there's mutually-assured destruction in store between...
  3. tarunraju

    Brexit, EU referendum

    Without RR Trent supply, Airbus's entire widebody production line will grind to a halt for 1-2 years till they can modify their products for other engines (a straight $30 billion revenue loss). You have to redesign the pylons, the fuel lines, the avionics, EICAS, etc., for each A330neo, and...
  4. tarunraju

    Brexit, EU referendum

    Airbus too will be gutted (at least long enough for Boeing to unassailably grow at its expense). Airbus' entire widebody product lineup relies on Rolls-Royce Trent engines (A330neo, A350XWB, and A380*). *A380 has a GE+P&W engine option called the GP7270, but it has tons of reliability issues...
  5. tarunraju

    Brexit, EU referendum

    Yeah, not wanting the French to take UK jobs is totally racist.
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