RB.211- The Engine That Sank and Then Saved Rolls Royce

To get 73% off with the NordVPN 3-year deal plus 4 month free click on the link here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Coupon code: curiousdroid In the early 1970s, Rolls Royce one of the most famous names in aero engineering went bust all because of just one project. Yet that same project went on to transform Rolls into the 2nd biggest engine maker in the world today. The project was the RB211 3 spool high bypass turbojet engine and this is the story of how and why it failed and how it was spectacularly resurrected by engineers that were brought out of retirement and started a line of engines that leads the world today. Sponsored by NordVPN https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Written, researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : Rolls Royce, Lockheed, VC10.net, Boeing, Aircraft Engineers Toolbox A big thank you also goes to all our Patreons too :-) Eριχθόνιος JL Abrakodabra Kobra / 25% Ai Alistair Brown Andrew Gaess Andrew SMITH Brian Kelly Cameron Elliot Carl Soderstrom Charles Thacker ChasingSol Collin Copfer Dom Riccobene Dragoncorps Etienne Dechamps Florian Müller George Bishop II Henning Bitsch Henri Saussure inunotaisho james t early Jim Early Johan Rombaut john edwards Jonathan Merage Jonathan Travers Joshua Rea - Dawn Aerospace Ken Schwarz László Antal Lawrence Brennan Lorne Diebel Pyloric Sergey Massazhenko SHAMIR stefan hufenbach Steve J - LakeCountySpacePort Tawn Kramer Vincent Will Lowe Music from the Youtube library Battle of 1066 by Patrick Patrikios