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FIA16

Are You Ready For The 18-Hour Flight?

Tomas Kellner
July 12, 2016
The oil embargo of 1973 was a miserable period when American towns banned Christmas lights to save electricity, billboards urged citizens to “turn off the damn lights” and filling stations dispensed gasoline by appointment only. The crisis got everyone thinking seriously about innovation and energy efficiency. One result: the massive and efficient jet engines that power the world’s longest commercial flights today.
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FIA16

Farnborough Airshow, An Aviation Grand Slam, Takes Off Today In England

Tomas Kellner
July 11, 2016
Many planes heading to the Farnborough International Airshow, which opens just outside of London on Monday, start their descent over Wimbledon’s famous tennis courts. It’s an apt landing route. Just like the tennis tournament, the air show is a grand-slam event for the aviation industry. The stars here have names like Airbus, Boeing and GE, the company that makes the jet engines that keep planes in the air.
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Dubai Air Show

GE Signs $16 Billion Deal to Service Emirates' Next-Gen Jet Engines

Tomas Kellner
November 10, 2015
There is no region in the world with a higher concentration of large GE jet engines than the Middle East.
The Dubai-based airline Emirates alone has 131 GE90-powered 777s in service and their engines just completed 1 million cycles, or trips – each cycle includes one takeoff and one landing. That number is now set to grow faster since Emirates has 44 more 777s with the same engine on order.
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Dubai Air Show

In It for the Long Haul: Big Jets Will Keep Powering Middle East’s Airline Growth

Tomas Kellner
November 10, 2015
Few places have seen more growth in the airline industry than the Middle East. Carriers that barely registered on the radar three decades ago have grown into powerful global players.
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Dubai Air Show

The World’s Largest Passenger Plane and Other Highlights from Day One at Dubai Air Show

Tomas Kellner
November 08, 2015
The 2015 Dubai Air Show opened for business on Sunday. Cities in the United Arab Emirates like Dubai and Abu Dhabi have become major aviation hubs over the last two decades and carriers based in the Middle East such as Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways have become powerful global players. As a result, the Dubai Air Show, which is held every two years at the Al Makhtoum International Airport located in a desert just outside the city, has become a major industry trade event on par with the Paris and Farnborough airshows.
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sustainability

Ecomagination Ten Years Later: Proving that Efficiency and Economics Go Hand-in-Hand

October 29, 2015
When GE launched Ecomagination in 2005, it redefined what it meant to be “green” for a business. Ecomagination was more than just another idea – it was a groundbreaking strategy the company used to build more efficient machines that produce cleaner energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, clean water and cut its use, and make money while doing it.
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Jet engines

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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Jet engines

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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Up, Up and Away: GE’s Billion Dollar Bet on Ceramic Super Material is Taking Off

July 13, 2015
People have been using ceramics for millennia, but the material’s practical applications have been mostly confined to the kitchen. “When you hit it, it fails catastrophically,” says Krishan Luthra, chief scientist for manufacturing and materials technologies at GE Global Research (GRC) in New York.
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“I Love Them All:” Pilot and Photographer Adam Senatori Talks About Shooting the World’s Biggest Airshows

June 25, 2015
The cover of GE’s 1951 Annual Report included an exterior shot of the High Voltage Lab. Image credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
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