Boeing successfully flight tests new ceramic composite engine nozzle; reduces noise, weight and fuel use
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 6, 2014
'Boeing recently successfully flight-tested an innovative engine nozzle made of ceramic composites designed to reduce noise and weight and to lower fuel use. The ceramic matrix composite (CMC) nozzle, attached to a Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine, went through a series of tests on the ecoDemonstrator 787 Flight Test Airplane, including community noise testing, passing over a large acoustic array in Moses Lake, Wash.
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