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Test Early, Test Often: How the GE9X Engine Became GE Aerospace’s Most Advanced Certified Power Plant Yet

Christine Gibson
November 14, 2023

Ohio doesn’t get many sandstorms. But an hour east of Cincinnati, on an otherwise sunny day, a dust devil is brewing. Atop a towering scaffold, a row of hoses pumps out dense clouds of powder and grit. They are instantly sucked, like a horizontal tornado, into the spinning fan blades of a jet engine a few feet away.

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GE90

The Power and the Glory: GE Aerospace Delivers 3,000th GE90 Engine

Jay Stowe
September 12, 2023

In the annals of engine production, the GE90 holds a special attraction for both the aviation world and the people at GE Aerospace who’ve worked on the engine program. Among commercial engines, the number of firsts it’s chalked up over the years is hard to beat: First to enter service with carbon-fiber composite fan blades. First certified at over 100,000 pounds of thrust. First engine certified for ETOPS (Extended-range Twin-engine Operational Performance Standards). First certified with an additive part. First program to employ analytics-based maintenance.

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Perspectives

Why Advanced Materials are Drivers for the Future Economy — Q&A with Angela Belcher

GE Look Ahead
Angela Belcher Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
November 07, 2014
Carbon fibre composites, ceramics, nanomaterials and other advanced materials with high-performance characteristics are increasingly finding their way into automobiles, building materials, clothing and other large consumer-oriented markets. Demand for carbon fibre-reinforced plastic is expected to grow 15% annually through 2020, for example, according to Deloitte.
 
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These Materials Scientists Are Teaching Robots Awesome New Tricks

November 02, 2014
With its roller doors and a squat build, GE’s composites manufacturing lab in Munich looks from the outside like many other garages in this Bavarian city where mechanics might work on Audis and BMWs. But walk through those doors and you’ll be greeted by a large robotic arm weaving composite parts from a long strand of a light and strong carbon fibers.
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