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Rolls-Royce RB211
- buro9 12y agoI was reading the BBC story about Turing's Bombe beating out Concorde in a UK mechanical engineers poll: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-29512623 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-295126... And therein found a mention to the RB211 with the following mention: The Rolls Royce RB211 engine received 11% of the vote. It was developed in the late 1960s but cost miscalculations led to the company going bust in 1971. The Wikipedia has the best summary on this period that I could find, but I also thought that this event might be of interest to people on HN as it combines both a story of engineering as well as the story of a business going through massive change: http://aerosociety.com/Events/Event-List/1754/The-History-of-the-RollsRoyce-RB21122-Turbofan-Engine http://aerosociety.com/Events/Event-List/1754/The-History-of...