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GE Started Testing The World’s Largest Jet Engine

Tomas Kellner
April 22, 2016
How large is the world’s largest jet engine? So large that a professional basketball player would fit inside it comfortably with several feet to spare. Engineers at GE Aviation just assembled the first of these engines and put it on a test stand at the company’s massive boot camp for jet engines located in the woods near Peebles, Ohio.
It’s a giant.
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Dubai Air Show

GE Signs $16 Billion Deal to Service Emirates' Next-Gen Jet Engines

Tomas Kellner
November 10, 2015
There is no region in the world with a higher concentration of large GE jet engines than the Middle East.
The Dubai-based airline Emirates alone has 131 GE90-powered 777s in service and their engines just completed 1 million cycles, or trips – each cycle includes one takeoff and one landing. That number is now set to grow faster since Emirates has 44 more 777s with the same engine on order.
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Dubai Air Show

In It for the Long Haul: Big Jets Will Keep Powering Middle East’s Airline Growth

Tomas Kellner
November 10, 2015
Few places have seen more growth in the airline industry than the Middle East. Carriers that barely registered on the radar three decades ago have grown into powerful global players.
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Dubai Air Show

The World’s Largest Passenger Plane and Other Highlights from Day One at Dubai Air Show

Tomas Kellner
November 08, 2015
The 2015 Dubai Air Show opened for business on Sunday. Cities in the United Arab Emirates like Dubai and Abu Dhabi have become major aviation hubs over the last two decades and carriers based in the Middle East such as Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways have become powerful global players. As a result, the Dubai Air Show, which is held every two years at the Al Makhtoum International Airport located in a desert just outside the city, has become a major industry trade event on par with the Paris and Farnborough airshows.
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Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: The World’s Largest and Most Powerful Jet Engine is Getting Bigger

June 17, 2015
Building something new usually takes a lot of brains, effort and time. When GE decided to put blades made from untested carbon fiber composites inside a brand new jet engine, replacing titanium with what was essentially plastic, it also required a lot of nerves.
“The design team woke up every morning thinking about it, and went to bed every night thinking about it,” says David Joyce, chief executive of GE Aviation. “It was such a radical change in design.”
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Jet engines

Mother Knows Best: How Mohammad Ehteshami Traveled from a Pistachio Farm to the Pinnacle of Jet Engine Engineering

June 16, 2015
Mohammad Ehteshami has helped build the world’s largest and most powerful jet engines during his 31-year career at GE. But as a boy in a tiny desert village in Iran, odds were he would grow up farming pistachios. That is, until his mother intervened. I caught up with Ehteshami at the Paris Air Show, to talk about the latest jet engine technology.
Tomas Kellner: How did you end up running jet engine engineering at GE, arguably the world’s largest jet engine maker?
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The Most Disruptive Idea of the Past 85 Years Powers a $22 Billion GE Business

December 09, 2014
What is the most disruptive idea since the Wall Street Crash of 1929? Bloomberg Businessweek, which turned 85 this fall, picked one idea for every year it’s been publishing, and the jet engine soared to the top of the list, above “The Pill,” Google search, television, e-mail and microchips.
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Inside GE's Boot Camp For Jet Engines

November 04, 2014
There are few people who know more about bad days for flying than Brian De Bruin and his team at GE’s jet engine testing facility in Peebles, Ohio. The team’s job is to make sure that GE engines keep working when they run into bad thunderstorms or a stray seagull. They expose the machines to hail and monsoon rain, hit them with bird carcasses, and even set off small explosions inside to simulate blade failure. “Some of these tests are relatively benign, but others are quite damaging,” De Bruin says. “You’ve got to prove that your engines are good.”
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Boeing To Use GE’s Powerful GE90 for Next-Gen 777 Plane

March 18, 2013

Boeing said today it picked GE as the engine partner for the next-generation of its 777 long-range passenger jet. “We are studying airplane improvements that will extend today’s 777 efficiencies and reliability for the next two decades or longer, and the engines are a significant part of that effort,“ said Bob Feldmann, vice president and general manager for the 777X development project at Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

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