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This Kid Spent 9 Years Building An Incredibly Detailed Model Of A Boeing Jet From Paper. Watch!

Tomas Kellner
June 16, 2017

Luca Iaconi-Stewart says he's “a crazy guy who loves aviation.” That might be an understatement. The 25-year-old spent the last nine years in his parents' house building an exquisitely precise replica of an Air India Boeing 777 jet made entirely from cut-up paper folders.

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From Wimbledon To Burning Man: An Inside Look At The Summer’s Largest Airshows

Tomas Kellner
September 08, 2016
The Farnborough International Airshow, which takes place every other year just outside of London, is aviation’s grand slam event comparable to Wimbledon or the U.S. Open. Boeing, Airbus, GE and all other large aircraft, engine and equipment makers come here and do big business. (GE Aviation and its joint-venture partner CFM International left with $25 billion in new deals.)
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The Great Farnborough Airshow Scavenger Hunt For GE Tech

Tomas Kellner
July 16, 2016
GE technology has been hiding in many unexpected places at the Farnborough International Airshow, which ends on Sunday in England. It was in the wings of the latest wide-body plane from Airbus, the A350 XWB, in the engines of the next-generation Boeing 737 MAX, in the cockpit of the newest Gulfstream jet, and even under the hood of a brand-new F-18 Super Hornet. We dispatched pilot and photographer Adam Senatori to sniff it out. Here’s what he brought back.
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GE And CFM Win $25 Billion In New Deals At Farnborough Airshow

Tomas Kellner
July 14, 2016
The Farnborough International Airshow will stay open to the public over the weekend, but the business part is over. GE and CFM International, GE’s joint company with France’s Safran Aircraft Engines, reported a combined total of $25 billion in new business.
CFM entered the show with orders and commitments for more than 10,800 next-generation LEAP jet engines, valued at $151 billion (U.S. list price), and the company won deals for at least 393 more. The company sold 565 engines valued at $8.2 billion. The tally includes its CFM56 engines and also business from undisclosed customers.
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Leave It To Software: Here’s How Data Analytics Will Make Airlines Fly Smarter

July 13, 2016
When the Dubai-based carrier flydubai started looking for new ways to make decisions based on the terabytes of data coming from its planes and pass the savings on to customers, the carrier did something unusual: It sat down with engineers from GE Aviation, the company that makes jet engines for many of its planes. GE has recently invested $1 billion in software and started collecting and analyzing data from passenger jets, power plants, medical scanners and other industrial machines.
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Are You Ready For The World’s Largest Jet Engine? It’s As Wide As A Boeing 737 And More Powerful Than America's First Manned Space Rocket

Tomas Kellner
July 11, 2016
A 10 percent increase in fuel efficiency might not sound like a lot, but in aviation, according to Wired, “engineers would step over their own mothers for a one percent bump.”
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We've Got An Exclusive Look At Boeing's Brand New 737 MAX Jet

Tomas Kellner
July 11, 2016
Boeing test pilot Ed Wilson brought this weekend to England the American plane maker’s brand new, next-generation Boeing 737 MAX passenger jet. He flew it here for the Farnborough International Air Show, which started on Monday, but we got an exclusive close look at the plane over the weekend.
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Farnborough Airshow, An Aviation Grand Slam, Takes Off Today In England

Tomas Kellner
July 11, 2016
Many planes heading to the Farnborough International Airshow, which opens just outside of London on Monday, start their descent over Wimbledon’s famous tennis courts. It’s an apt landing route. Just like the tennis tournament, the air show is a grand-slam event for the aviation industry. The stars here have names like Airbus, Boeing and GE, the company that makes the jet engines that keep planes in the air.
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Aviation Proves Newest Territory for 3D Printing

July 16, 2014
3D printing has for years been applied to small scale manufacturing processes, tackling anything from creating small-scale industrial parts to assembling entire automobile frames.  Most recently, 3D printing has been introduced into the personal consumer market, with affordable printers that allow everyday people to manufacture and replicate mechanical designs of their own.
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GE’s Jet Engine Unit Brings Home $36 Billion in New Business at Farnborough Airshow

July 16, 2014

The Middle East is quickly becoming a new global aviation hub with big plans for the future. Nowhere are those plans better visible than at giant airshows like the one in Farnborough, UK, which finished this week. Emirates and Qatar Airlines, for example, finalized multi-billion orders for Boeing’s next-generation 777X long-haul planes, building on a momentum from last year’s Dubai airshow.

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