VICTORVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The GEnx engine took to the skies today in Victorville, California, marking the start of flight-testing on GE's 747 flying test-bed. During the four-hour first flight, the GEnx-1B engine demonstrated aircraft systems and instrumentation functionality, climbed to close to 40,000 feet and established engine performance baseline for flight-testing.
VICTORVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The GEnx engine took to the skies today in Victorville, California, marking the start of flight-testing on GE's 747 flying test-bed. During the four-hour first flight, the GEnx-1B engine demonstrated aircraft systems and instrumentation functionality, climbed to close to 40,000 feet and established engine performance baseline for flight-testing.
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VICTORVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The GEnx engine took to the skies today in Victorville, California, marking the start of flight-testing on GE's 747 flying test-bed. During the four-hour first flight, the GEnx-1B engine demonstrated aircraft systems and instrumentation functionality, climbed to close to 40,000 feet and established engine performance baseline for flight-testing.
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EVENDALE, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Virgin America has signed a 12-year OnPointSM Solutions agreement with GE Aviation Services for the maintenance and overhaul of the CFM56-5B(a) engines that power its fleet of Airbus A319 and A320 aircraft. The agreement, which initially covers 70 installed and spare engines, is valued at more than $145 million of the life of the contract.
Virgin America, the new U.S. domestic start-up airline, ordered CFM56-5B engines in June 2004 to power up to 105 Airbus A320 family aircraft. The airline currently has firm orders for 31 A320 family aircraft.
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LYNN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The first CT7-9C3-powered CN-235-300 for the U.S. Coast Guard Deepwater program is now in the hands of the customer.
Deepwater is a multiyear, multibillion-dollar program to modernize and replace the Coast Guard's aging ships and aircraft. The twin-engine CN235 medium-range surveillance, maritime patrol aircraft (MRSMPA) replaces the Falcon 20 and provides more endurance and a more cost-effective mission solution.
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Multi-City California Tour Showcases Current and Experimental Emission-Reduction Technologies
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
OMAHA, Neb., and ERIE, Pa., Feb. 13, 2007 Union Pacific and General Electric today announced the Green Locomotive Technology Tour to showcase current and experimental technologies that are helping reduce locomotive emissions. The environmental rail tour will wind through California Feb. 20 28 with planned stops in West Colton, Fresno, Stockton, Roseville, Oakland, Los Angeles and Long Beach.
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CHALFONT ST. GILES, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare announced today that it has completed a license agreement with Applied Biosystems, granting Applied Biosystems access to GE Healthcare patents for the biomagnetic isolation of nucleic acids. The license, which is valid for the lifetime of the patents, grants Applied Biosystems certain rights with respect to the isolation and purification of nucleic acids using GE Healthcare's proprietary magnetic separation technology.
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GE is Gold Sponsor of Middle East Imaging and Diagnostic Congress
Dubai, UAE; January 28, 2007: GE Healthcare, the US$17 billion healthcare business of General Electric Company (GE), is presenting cutting edge medical technologies focused on 'early healthcare' at Arab Health 2007, the premier health sector exhibition to be held from January 29 to February 1, 2007, at the Dubai International Exhibition Centre.