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[GE - Jeanne Rosario, Vice President and General Manager of Engineering]
[One of the innovative technologies the team here at GE Aviation has been working on]
[for many years now are technologies around improving fuel burn.]
[There are two ways to get better fuel burn--]
[component efficiencies, compressors and turbines that are more efficient]
[and require less stages to do the work,]
[and get high efficiencies with high pressure ratios.]
[The other way to get better fuel burn]
[is to develop lightweight materials.]
[Materials are key to the aviation industry--]
[lightweight, high strength, high temperature capability.]
[In the front of the engine, we use lightweight composites]
[more and more, and that technology evolution]
[really started in the 1980s with our unducted fan engine.]
[It's progressed through the decades to what we have today]
[on the GE90-115B, which is the only composite fan blade]
[in commercial aviation today, and we're very proud of that fan blade.]
[That fanblade has progressed in the GEnx design]
[to also encompass a composite fan case.]
[So now we have a composite fan blade, a composite fan case.]
[Compared to the engine it's replacing,]
[that's 1,000 pounds of weight per aircraft, ]
[out of the fan module alone.]
[Just great technology for the customer and a great track record]
[ of durable, reliable service, with over 8 million hours on that GE90 fan blade.]
