August 10, 2005 -- GLASGOW, MT - General Electric and Boeing will begin testing new technology to further reduce noise on the already quiet Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, which are powered by GE90-115B engines.
The three-week flight test at Boeing's Glasgow, Montana, test facility is part of Boeing's Quiet Technology Demonstrator 2 (QTD 2) program. QTD 2 is a collaboration between Boeing, General Electric, Goodrich's Aerostructures division, NASA, and All Nippon Airways to validate new technologies designed to reduce noise on the aircraft and engine.
WAUKESHA, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 1, 2005--GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), announced today that it has signed a multi-year agreement with the University of Virginia Health System (UVa) to develop new, minimally invasive surgery techniques. Using GE Healthcare's cutting edge surgical navigation tools, the InstaTrak(R) 3500 Plus and OEC(R) 9800 Plus, doctors at UVa will research less invasive methods of therapeutic and surgical intervention for the brain and spine.
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August 01, 2005 -- LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS - The GE CT7-8B5 turboshaft engine has been selected to power the U.S. Army Special Operations MH-60M Black Hawk (Sikorsky) aircraft.
The initial 2005 contract to General Electric Company for $15.5 million is for the development program, which includes engine development and aircraft integration activities, and flight test engines and support. Flight-test engine deliveries are scheduled to begin in January 2006, with initial flight-testing planned for 2007.
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July 28, 2005 -- EVENDALE, Ohio - With more than 125 commitments announced for the new Airbus A350 aircraft, integration teams between Airbus and engine supplier General Electric Company have reached a key milestone in designing the overall propulsion system.
The GEnx engine, GE's newest commercial jet engine, is designated to power these A350 orders. The GEnx-powered A350 is scheduled to enter revenue service in 2010.
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July 28, 2005 -- EVENDALE, Ohio - With more than 125 commitments announced for the new Airbus A350 aircraft, integration teams between Airbus and engine supplier General Electric Company have reached a key milestone in designing the overall propulsion system.
The GEnx engine, GE's newest commercial jet engine, is designated to power these A350 orders. The GEnx-powered A350 is scheduled to enter revenue service in 2010.
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July 20, 2005 -- EVENDALE, Ohio - With its GEnx jet engine, General Electric Company (GE) engineers are introducing breakthrough combustion technology that will dramatically reduce emissions in jet travel.
The GEnx engine is being developed for the new Airbus A350 and Boeing 787 aircraft. The GEnx enters airline service in 2008, and has already received more than $2 billion in orders on the strength of new technologies that make it the most fuel efficient, quiet, and low-emissions jet engine that GE has ever introduced for large jet aircraft.
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July 18, 2005 -- Huerth, Germany - General Electric Company has signed a definitive agreement with Welch Allyn to acquire Everest VIT, Inc. (EVIT), a remote industrial visual inspection technologies subsidiary. The transaction, terms of which are not being disclosed, will be completed upon receipt of the various regulatory approvals. EVIT will become part of GE Inspection Technologies, headquartered in Huerth, Germany.
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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 13, 2005--NASA flight surgeons will use GE Healthcare's advanced heart monitoring and digital networking systems to monitor astronauts' health information real-time during space walks, which will take place throughout the Space Shuttle Discovery mission launching on July 13, 2005.
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BASEL, Switzerland & CHALFONT ST. GILES, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2005--Roche and GE Healthcare, a division of the General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today announced a collaboration aimed at developing personalized care for patients with Alzheimer's disease. In controlled clinical trials, patients taking a Roche anti-amyloid drug candidate for Alzheimer's disease will be monitored clinically for drug response using GE's positron emission tomography (PET) diagnostic imaging agent.
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FLORENCE, Italy--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2005--GE Energy has signed a US$400 million, 17-year contractual service agreement (CSA) covering 27 gas turbines and 47 centrifugal compressors at Atlantic LNG Company's production facility in Port Fortin, Trinidad.
This contract includes a new maintenance approach based on an evolution of the modular exchange normally applied on GE aeroderivative engines and now extended to GE heavy-duty 32-megawatt gas turbines.