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Aerospace

Haul Of Fame: A Qantas Jet Sets Distance Record, Flying 9,333 Miles From Argentina To Australia

Tomas Kellner
October 06, 2021

In the 1940s, it took a Qantas flight more than four days and seven stops to fly from Australia to London. In 2018, a Qantas Boeing 787 Dreamliner named Emily, powered by a pair of GE jet engines, covered the 14,498 kilometers that separate the port city of Perth and London in 17 hours and 20 minutes, setting a record for a scheduled flight by the airline.

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culture

The Art of Science: Inside The Decades-Old Love Affair Between Artists And GE

Liz Wishaw
October 19, 2019
Norman Rockwell painted ad posters for GE, as did Herbert Bayer, the last living member of the Bauhaus movement. Cult science-fiction illustrator Dean Ellis drew the changing face of downtown America for a GE calendar.
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Father's Day

A Family Affair: Dave Kircher Launched His 30-Year GE Career With A Little Help From His Dad

Dorothy Pomerantz
June 13, 2019
Growing up, Dave Kircher knew that his dad, Bill, worked on jet engines at GE, but the details were always mysterious. Even when they went to the Dayton Air Museum together and Bill explained the differences between airplanes, Dave didn’t think of it as more than a fun way to spend an afternoon.
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Sleeping Giant: GE’s ‘In The Wild’ Explores The Power Of The World’s Largest Jet Engine

Dorothy Pomerantz
August 28, 2017
For the past six years, GE has been putting its newest jet engine, the GE9X, through its paces. Engineers have bombarded the engine with dust, ice and debris to simulate 3,000 takeoffs and landings. The overall cost of the testing alone: over $1 billion.
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Qantas’s top 5 takeouts from Minds + Machines 2016

November 19, 2016
As Murray Adams, manager of operations, analytics and reporting at Qantas walked back through the great tech hall of Minds + Machines 2016, last Friday on his way to dinner in San Francisco before hopping a flying kangaroo for Sydney, he checked for: tickets, passport and valuable takeouts from the two-day festival of digital-industrial ideas and insights.
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3D Printing

These Engineers 3D Printed a Mini Jet Engine, Then Took it to 33,000 RPM

September 05, 2016
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Consider it a jet engine for the Oompa-Loompas. GE engineers working on the future of aircraft manufacturing recently showed off some of their capabilities. They made a simple 3D-printed mini jet engine that roared at 33,000 rotations per minute (see video above).
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Advanced Manufaturing

Watch This Water-Guided Laser Machine Cut The Tiniest Holes In The Toughest Metals

Tomas Kellner
May 19, 2016
The project was so secret that team members had to pick up jackhammers, knock down walls and modify the workshop by themselves. Problems quickly popped up after they unpacked the engine from its box. “We didn’t have the right tools,” Sorota said. “Our wrenches didn’t fit the nuts and bolts because they were on the metric system. We had to grind them open a little more to get inside.”
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Jet engines

Video: The Last Of The Hush-Hush Boys Recalls How GE Built The First American Jet Engine

Tomas Kellner
April 06, 2016
The year was 1941. World War II was raging in Europe and Nazi bombers over London were as common as rain. It was also when a group of GE engineers in Lynn, Massachusetts, received a secret present from His Majesty King George VI. Inside several crates were parts of the first jet engine successfully built and flown by the Allies. The engineers’ job was to improve on the handmade machine, bring it to mass production and help England win the war.
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Oops, the Dreamliner Did it Again

June 16, 2015
Five GEnx engines together generate the same amount of thrust as one Space Shuttle rocket engine. The GIF above shows what that power looks like on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Once again on Tuesday at the Paris Air Show, Boeing test pilots Randy Neville and Van Chaney performed a near-vertical takeoff with the Vietnam Airlines’ 787-9 – an extended version of the Dreamliner.
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Come Dust, Ice, Hail Stone and High-G Force: What it Takes for the LEAP Jet Engine to Prove its Mettle

June 14, 2015
The sand storms in the Gobi Desert in Central Asia are some of the most frightening events nature can cook up, sending giant tan clouds of fine dust as far as Beijing. While locals seal their homes and try to keep the dust away, Gareth Richards, program manager for the next-generation LEAP jet engines at CFM International, can’t get enough of it.
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