Rolls-Royce builds Jumbo Jet engine –from Lego bricks!

For Rolls-Royce, building a jet engine may be nothing new —but building the world's first fully working jet engine out of Lego bricks might be something to toast about.

 

The company built a moving half-size version of its powerful Trent 1000 jet engine —the one mounted on Boeing 787 aircraft— in England, tech site CNET reported.

 

CNET said the engine —all 4.9 feet long, 6.5 feet wide, 676 lbs, and 152,455 bricks of it— was unveiled at the Farnborough International Airshow in England.

 

It took four Rolls-Royce employees more than eight weeks to assemble the Lego engine.

 

The engine had 160 components that function like the real thing, including blades that rotate and an inner combustion chamber that burns fuel.

 

Rolls-Royce's Trent 1000 is a turbofan engine that powered the Boeing 787's maiden flight, and its first commercial flight from Tokyo to Hong Kong in October 2011. — TJD, GMA News