A Hot Idea For RR 250 Could Cut Fuel Burn By 40%
Sunday, February 8, 2009 Harry Weisberger Savings of up to 40 percent on jet fuel for the Rolls-Royce 250 turbine-engine family? That is the prospect offered by Frontline Aerospace, said company CEO Ryan Wood in describing an emerging aviation technology called gas turbine recuperation. Frontline’s patent-pending product, MicroFire, extracts waste heat from turbine-engine exhaust gases