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Fad in to Interior – Aircraft Hangar – Day. Medium Full Shot – Phil Shultz. Airplane in background bearing the GENX logo. Camera slowly zooms in on Phil Shultz. Camera zooms out on Phil Shultz.
- Phil Shultz:
- This engine you see behind us here, from a first flight perspective, operated flawlessly.
It did exactly what engineering staff said it was going to do, it operated exactly the way they said
it was gonna operate. But when you look at technology and how hard it is to develop technology,
that's-- it's a tough job. It's really a tough job. And there's very few companies who have the
capability, the intellectual capability, and the resources, to do that, to take an idea. To take the
imagination and commitment to that imagination, to really make it work. GE probably is one of the few companies
that can do that. And you look at our partners on this, and it takes companies and partners to make that happen.
It's not somethin’ that you just go do. It's not somethin’ that you can do overnight. We spent two and a half
years getting to this point on this engine with this airplane. And, uh, so when you look at GE's commitment to
technology, to developing technology, to-- to going forward with technology, to putting that technology in the
hands of the customer, that takes a pretty strong commitment. It takes resources, it takes intellectual resources.
And, going forward, we kind of have to look backward. You look back to the days of Brian Rowe, where he pushed
GE-Ninety. And GE-Ninety was a push, at that time. They said, well, this is gonna be a great engine. We flew first
flight, we knew it was going to be a great engine. But it took a few years, and it took the commitment of the
company to make it a great engine. If you look at the-- the One Fifteen today, in the marketplace, God, what
an-- what an engine. And it-- it’s really terrific. And so you sit here today looking at GENX, and you say,
for the next fifteen, twenty, thirty, forty years, this is the engine of the future. And this is-- this is
Ecomagination. This is imagination. The electric capability is the eco part of it. You see the GE commitment
up there. All those things are true. So, that's what I wanted...
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- Phil Shultz (voiceover) (continued):
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