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From the BBC:

Instead of a £49 ($79) deal to mend his new hi-fi if it breaks, Quentin Davies has just spent £865m on a maintenance contract for his new engines.

But then Mr Davies is no ordinary customer, and these are no ordinary engines.

They are the Rolls-Royce EJ200 power packs for the Royal Air Force's fleet of Typhoon jet fighter.

And Mr Davies, the UK's defence equipment minister, has experienced them first hand.

"I am one of that tiny minority of highly privileged human beings who's actually flown in this aircraft," Mr Davies tells a small crowd of engineers at Rolls-Royce's Bristol factory..

..The UK is one of six nations that is buying 707 Typhoon jets, for which 1,500 engines have been ordered..

..Rolls-Royce engineers work alongside RAF technicians at RAF Coninsby in Lincolnshire. Similar deals with foreign air forces have resulted in Rolls-Royce engineers being based in India, Malaysia, at sea with the US Navy, and in the deserts of the Middle East..

Full Article:
BBC News - Engine servicing key to Rolls-Royce earnings


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