Talk:Adrian Lombard

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A fact from Adrian Lombard appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 May 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Adrian Lombard, who had no formal training in aerodynamics, became one of the world's foremost designers of jet engines?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/May.

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Plastic engines

Not sure about the 'plastic aero engines' sentence - author may be confusing this with the initiative to develop composite fan blades for the RB211? Gilgamesh4 (talk) 09:50, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comment. The plastic engines technology was worked on first, then some of that technology was used in the early designs of the RB211 – it wasn't an initiative to only develop composite fan blades. As you probably know, the plastic blades were none too successful! I've added a bit to the article to make it a bit clearer. Cheers, BigDom (talk) 10:35, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Rolls-Royce used GRP in some of its engines, IIRC most notably the RB.108, RB.145, and RB.162