Rolls-Royce has reached two milestones for the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carriers, with completion of the first propeller and the successful testing of the vessels’ MT30 gas turbine.
The propeller, measuring almost seven metres in diameter and weighing 33 tonnes, has completed acceptance tests at the Rolls-Royce facility in Kristinehamn, Sweden. Rolls-Royce is also supplying shaft lines which will link each of the vessels’ two propellers with the power source. Each propeller will deliver around 50,000 horse-power — the highest power Kamewa propeller…
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