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Where Jet Engines Take a Licking But Keep On Ticking
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Are You Ready For The World’s Largest Jet Engine? It’s As Wide As A Boeing 737 And More Powerful Than America's First Manned Space Rocket
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We've Got An Exclusive Look At Boeing's Brand New 737 MAX Jet
Aerospace
Up In The Air: The World’s Hardest-Working Jet Engine Has Logged 91,000 Years in Flight
Aerospace
Comeback Kid: The Next Sound-Barrier-Busting Passenger Jet Could Be Quietly Supersonic
The plane could accelerate above the speed of sound only over the ocean. The prospect of noisy sonic booms caused by the plane crossing the sound barrier forced pilots to hold back the throttle above towns and cities after takeoff and before touchdown. “This speed limit actually made the plane much less efficient,” says Karl Wisniewski, director of advanced programs at GE Aviation. “It was designed to fly fast.”
Aerospace
This Mother Of 6 Helped GE Build Its First Supersonic Jet Engine
Engineer Mark Leary has been helping GE Aviation build jet engines for three decades. The work is in his blood — literally. More that 60 years ago, Mark’s mother, Patricia, helped the company design the supersonic engine that allowed Lockheed to build the F-104 Starfighter jet, known as “the missile with a man in it” and capable of sustained flight at twice the speed of sound, or Mach 2.
History
The Home Front: Victory In Europe Was Won On The Beaches Of Normandy As Well As The Shores Of Lake Erie
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The Art of Engineering: The World’s Largest Jet Engine Shows Off Composite Curves
Nick Kray is no Picasso, yet his work is on display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. A decade ago, MoMA’s design collection picked up a composite fan blade from the GE90 jet engine that Kray helped create. The blade’s onyx black sinuous curves are pleasing to look at, but for Kray they are no longer state of the art. “We are now working on the fourth generation of that technology,” Kray says.
Aerospace
GE Started Testing The World’s Largest Jet Engine
It’s a giant.
