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Valentine's Day

Love Is In The Air: Growing Up Around Jets, This Couple Found Their Heaven In The High Mojave Desert

Tomas Kellner
February 12, 2020
The Mojave Desert “is a big desert and a frightening one,” John Steinbeck wrote as he traveled across America in the 1960s.
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Jet Engine Testing

Time Flies: GE’s Original Flying Testbed Jets Off Into History

Brendan Coffey
November 28, 2018

The history of GE and modern aviation are closely linked. Few symbols embody the connection more than the original GE flying testbed, a 49-year-old Boeing 747-100 that served as an airborne lab for engineers testing generations of new jet engines. The plane, the last operating model of the first variant of the iconic 747 jet, made its final flight earlier this month.

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Jet engines

Into Thin Air: The Lofty Side Of Jet Engine Testing

Tomas Kellner
January 21, 2016
New GE jet engines must pass a litany of hardships on the test stand — from bird strikes to hailstorms — before they get to take to the air.
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