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These Space-Age Ceramics Will Be Your Jet Engine’s Next Cup of Tea

May 15, 2015
Humans have been living with ceramics for 25,000 years. We’ve been using them for cups, pipes, pottery and many other handy everyday objects. But the light, strong, and heat resistant material has one fatal flaw, which has kept it confined mainly to the cupboard. “When you hit it, it fails catastrophically,” says Krishan Luthra, chief scientist for manufacturing and materials technologies at GE Global Research in New York. “I thought it would be the Holy Grail if we could get it inside machines, and get more power and savings out of our engines. It could really make an impact.”
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Here Comes the Jet! Lost Film About the Jet Engine’s Top Secret Origins Found in GE Archives

March 09, 2015
In 1942, a group of GE engineers working in secret for ten months built America’s first jet engine. Their mission was to win the war, but they ended up shrinking the world. “They called us the Hush-Hush Boys,” says Joseph Sorota, one of the last living veterans of the project, who just turned 95.
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The Nuclear-Powered Jet Engine, Ceramic Turbines and Other Gems from the History of Flight

February 23, 2015
The airplane was still barely a teenager when the United States entered World War I, and the U.S. Army’s fledgling aeronautical division wanted to make its airplanes fly higher without losing power.
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Thinner, Lighter, Stiffer, Stronger: Next Gen Jet Engine Fan Blades Use Carbon Super Material

September 03, 2014
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Aviation Proves Newest Territory for 3D Printing

July 16, 2014
3D printing has for years been applied to small scale manufacturing processes, tackling anything from creating small-scale industrial parts to assembling entire automobile frames.  Most recently, 3D printing has been introduced into the personal consumer market, with affordable printers that allow everyday people to manufacture and replicate mechanical designs of their own.
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Scientists Use "Big Bang" Supercomputer to Build Better Jet Engine

June 08, 2014
At California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the world’s most powerful computers are working on some of our most fundamental questions about the universe. The Sierra supercomputer, for example, is delving into the Big Bang and trying to figure out why elementary particles have mass.
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