Gallery: Rolls-Royce Unveils New Jet Engine ... Made of Legos

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    One of the high-bypass fans of the Lego Trent 1000 during construction.
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    A few of the complex fan blade designs used in the Lego jet engine.
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    Cutaway of Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) configured for lunar missions. Command Module (CM) modifications for the interim station program would have been relatively modest, but the Service Module (SM) would have been extensively redesigned, with most of the systems depicted here either removed or shrunk in size. Image: NASA
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    The half-scale jet engine on display at the Farnborough International Airshow this week.
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    Some of the Rolls Royce team and Bright Bricks Lego experts that built the model engine.
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