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Did Rolles Royce's Fuel Oil Heat Exchanger Work?
A delta airline's flight 18 was flying from shanghai to atlanta. They noticed something was wrong, lowered the power on their engines and then increased the throttle,. Then the problem went away. It ended up not being a big deal, but it did happen again. In may of two thousand nine, an airbus, a three 30, also with rolls royc's engines, had a similar incident. But in response to this, rolles royce re designed that fuel oil heat exchanger to be sent in service by march 20 tenth. And the engines were fitted within six months of certification. This was the first triple seven holl losts in history.
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