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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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How GE’s Move To Boston Is Really A Homecoming

Tomas Kellner
April 04, 2016
GE said in January that it will relocate its headquarters from Connecticut to Boston. The company had a significant presence in the city even before the move — GE businesses ranging from Aviation and Current to Digital and Healthcare employ almost 5,000 people in the city and surrounding area. But GE’s Boston roots go to the very beginning of the company. Our video and also our photo essay tell that story.
 

 
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Jet engines

Into Thin Air: The Lofty Side Of Jet Engine Testing

Tomas Kellner
January 21, 2016
New GE jet engines must pass a litany of hardships on the test stand — from bird strikes to hailstorms — before they get to take to the air.
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best of 2015

Best Pictures of 2015: The GE Edition

Tomas Kellner
January 04, 2016
Every year, GE sends photographers, filmmakers and other visual artists around the world to document its technology in action. 2015 was no different. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet traveled to the high plains of Colorado to document how GE was testing its most advanced locomotive, pilot and photographer Adam Senatori visited three airshows on as many continents to get close to the latest planes powered by GE jet engines, and Chris New climbed to the top of an experimental wind turbine in the Mojave desert.
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Sun, Sand and Airplanes: The Best of 2015 Dubai Airshow

Tomas Kellner
November 19, 2015
It takes more than an hour to drive from downtown Dubai to Al Maktoum International Airport, the site of the city’s biannual air show. The runways are still surrounded by red desert sand. But like anything in this booming business capital of the United Arab Emirates, there are already plans to transform the airport into a major transportation hub surrounded by gleaming homes, canals, broad roads and cavernous warehouses.
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Under the Tuscan Sun: The World’s Largest Jet Engine Was Born in Michelangelo’s Backyard

Tomas Kellner
November 09, 2015
The seaside Tuscan town of Massa defies the Italian stereotype of vineyards and sun-soaked hilltops. True, Michelangelo got stone for David from nearby marble quarries, but today Massa is best known for massive machines and heavy-duty engineering. It’s the birthplace of several industrial goliaths, including GE’s latest jet engine, the GE9X.
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The Jet Set: GE Jet Engines Land on Louis Vuitton’s Paris Runway

Krista Carroll
October 23, 2015
Every two seconds, a jet engine with GE technology inside departs from an airport somewhere in the world. But earlier this month, the machines touched down on a runway more used to seeing models and brands take off. It ran straight down Louis Vuitton’s fashion show in Paris.
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Power in Numbers: GE Rolls Out GEnx Engine No. 1,000 in Only Five Years Since Entering Service

Krista Carroll
October 20, 2015
Last June at the Paris Airshow, Boeing test pilots Randy Neville and Van Chaney performed a near-vertical takeoff with the Vietnam Airlines’ brand new extended version of the Dreamliner passenger jet powered by a pair of GEnx engines. It turns out that sales of engines are climbing nearly as fast.
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Found: This Old GE Comic Book Tells the Whole Incredible Story of the Birth of the Jet Age

October 03, 2015
GE didn’t invent the jet engine, but it built the first one in America during World War II. It was no accident. The company had been making turbines for power plants and superchargers for propeller planes for decades. Without all that knowledge, the jet age would’ve taken longer to lift off.
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Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: The World’s Largest and Most Powerful Jet Engine is Getting Bigger

June 17, 2015
Building something new usually takes a lot of brains, effort and time. When GE decided to put blades made from untested carbon fiber composites inside a brand new jet engine, replacing titanium with what was essentially plastic, it also required a lot of nerves.
“The design team woke up every morning thinking about it, and went to bed every night thinking about it,” says David Joyce, chief executive of GE Aviation. “It was such a radical change in design.”
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