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Aerospace

“The Biggest Win:” New Engine Set to Lift GE’s Turboprop Business to New Heights

November 16, 2015
Textron Aviation, the world’s largest maker of business propeller planes like Beechcraft Bonanza, Baron and King Air, said today it would use a brand new advanced turboprop engine developed by GE to power its latest single-engine turboprop plane. The engine burns 20 percent less fuel and produces 10 percent more power, compared to engines in its class.
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Innovation

Startups Get Flush With Slush: Plucky Finnish Tech Conference Draws Global Sellout Crowd

Tomas Kellner
November 14, 2015
In 2011, a group of students at Aalto University in Helsinki grew frustrated that startups in the Finnish capital were having a hard time finding each other. “There was no ecosystem for them and for the people who wanted to work for them,” says Riku Mäkelä, who studies business and engineering at Aalto. “But when they started talking to young entrepreneurs, they realized that this was a Europe-wide problem. They decided to do something about it.”
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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

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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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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Breakthrough

Engines of Inference: Peter Tu’s Tech Uses Computer Vision to Understand Emotions, Human Behavior

November 06, 2015
If Peter Tu’s technology takes off, an airplane could know when pilots get distracted in the cockpit and offer suggestions to help them make better decisions. Similarly, doctors could receive important tips on communicating and improving body language when presenting patients with a diagnosis.
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Renewables

What America's First Offshore Wind Farm Reveals About GE’s Alstom Deal

November 04, 2015
Block Island is a teardrop-shaped piece of land some 13 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, U.S. It’s best known for its beaches, wind-swept bluffs and summer vacation homes. But a new attraction is quickly rising three miles off its southeastern shore.
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Alstom

New Power Generation: GE-Alstom Energy Deal Redefines Power Industry in Coming Decades

Tomas Kellner
November 02, 2015
GE completed its acquisition of Alstom’s power and grid business today. The transaction, GE’s largest industrial deal ever, unites two storied businesses with roots stretching to the very dawn of the power industry more than a century ago and to its pioneering founders Thomas Edison and Elihu Thomson.
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Breakthrough

Science in Action: New Breakthrough TV Series from NatGeo and GE Zooms In on Live-Changing Research

Tomas Kellner
October 29, 2015
Hollywood producer Brian Grazer says that a curious mind is the secret to a bigger life. It’s also the secret to a thriving business.
Grazer and Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) have teamed up with GE and National Geographic Channel to make a six-part documentary TV series focusing on scientific breakthroughs and innovation.
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