Leaner and determined to be greener, Rolls-Royce’s jet engine empire is raring to go as the air industry prepares to put the dark days of the pandemic behind it and put the throttle back on at Britain’s Farnborough Airshow this month.
The aerospace giant has used the crisis to carry out what one top executive called the biggest restructuring in its history, saving £1.3 billion ($1.6bn) by combining assembly lines, rethinking supply chains and cutting 8,700 jobs.
But its engineers were…