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In The Belly Of The Beast: Inside One Of The World’s Largest Cargo Jets

Tomas Kellner
July 14, 2016
Not all jet engines work hard when they’re in the air. Like off-duty pilots flying jump seat, GE sometimes moves its engines in the belly of the massive Antonov An-124 Ruslan freighters operated by the Volga-Dnepr Group. Among the GE businesses that take advantage of the planes' 150-ton cargo capacity is GE Power, which uses them to ship entire power plants to far corners of the world.
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Like Flying 200 Elephants and a Jumbo Jet Full of Oil: What It Takes to Build a New Power Grid in Six Weeks

August 10, 2015
Last December, Egypt decided to move aggressively to avoid power cuts and brownouts during its sweltering desert summer, when the average high temperature hovers above 90 degrees Fahrenheit for months. It had little time to spare. The heat starts rising early in the spring and country’s existing power plants were already operating at peak capacity to support Egypt’s booming economy.
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