Private jets Rolls-Royce sets up a factory near Bordeaux to equip Dassault's future business jet.
The British engine manufacturer is installing a factory in Haillan, near Bordeaux, which will accompany the integration of its Pearl 10X into the future Falcon 10X business aircraft from Dassault Aviation.
In the midst of a controversy over private jets, the engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce inaugurated on Friday, secretly, the construction of a new factory in Haillan near Bordeaux (Gironde) in connection with the construction of Dassault's new business aircraft, the Falcon 10X.
"The site will play an important role in the production support of the Rolls-Royce Pearl 10X engine" created exclusively for "the brand new flagship Falcon 10X aircraft from Dassault," says the British engine manufacturer in a statement.
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The construction of this "production assistance center of 2,000 m2, which will house offices, a workshop and a warehouse" should begin at the end of the year, and be completed "in the first half of 2023. "The center should eventually have about twenty employees, and will be responsible for the operational preparation of the Pearl 10X engines to facilitate their integration into the future business aircraft, specifies The Bordeaux Tribune.
"While the Pearl 10X engine development program for the Dassault Falcon 10X is progressing well, we are already working in parallel on setting up the infrastructure to support Dassault's flight test activities," explained Philipp Zeller, vice president of the Pearl 10X program at Rolls-Royce, at the inauguration.
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This new Rolls-Royce plant is located a stone's throw from the premises of Dassault Falcon Service, where the Falcon 10X will be built, the commissioning of which is scheduled for the end of 2025. Dassault Aviation emphasizes that the engine that will equip its future jet is "the most advanced and the most efficient in business aviation. "The Pearl 10X engine should be compatible with 100% sustainable fuels.
This new generation aircraft will have a range of 13,890 km, to connect non-stop New York to Shanghai, Los Angeles to Sydney, Hong Kong to New York or Paris to Santiago.
Its maximum speed will be Mach 0.925. Measuring 2.03 m high and 2.77 m wide, "its cabin will be wider and higher than the cabin of the largest of the business jets currently in service," emphasizes Dassault Aviation.
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The cabin occupies a total length of 16.4 meters out of the 33.4 meters of the aircraft.
- The Dassault company has never equipped its Falcon business aircraft with French engines since this type of engine has never been manufactured in France.
On the other hand, France is the world leader in helicopter turbines and then Dassault Systèmes equips all flight operating systems (piloting,....) of all the Airbus and some Boeing (if not all) Then "Poor France"....
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