Aerospace
Well Played: For Researcher Marie-Agathe Charpagne, Music And Metals Go Hand In Hand
But when Marie-Agathe Charpagne sat down to play “Apres une Lecture de Dante” by Franz Liszt, in 2016, she was perfectly composed. In front of an audience of her fellow competitors, her hands flew over the keys, always landing on the right notes, while her bare feet skimmed the pedals, giving added depth to the music flowing from the instrument.
Aerospace
A Blast From The Past: This Edison Discovery Powers The World's Largest Jet Engine
Aerospace
Now Boarding: This Software Helps Keep The World’s Planes On Schedule
As a kid growing up in San Francisco in the 1970s, Mike Arguello loved to hang out at San Francisco International Airport. Arguello often found himself waiting there for hours for visiting relatives, whose arrivals from Central America were often delayed.
Future of Flight
Fast And Furious: RACER, Next-Gen Helicopter Hybrid, Could Bring Cheaper, Greener, And Speedier Air Travel
The future of flight is an ever-evolving topic ranging from new supersonic passenger jets to hybrid helicopter-like aircraft that fly more like a plane.
Aerospace
The Grand Total: Boeing Pairs The World's Largest Twin-Engine Jet With The World's Largest Jet Engine From GE
Boeing just released the first pictures of the world’s largest twin-engine jet, the 777X, equipped with the world’s largest jet engine, the GE9X. The plane is scheduled for its maiden flight this year.
Aerospace
The Daring Do: In The Cockpit With GE’s Chief Test Pilot
If you asked most kids in the 1980s, "Are you an Alan Shepard or a Chuck Yeager?," many would pick America’s first astronaut over the test pilot who became the first human to fly faster than the speed of sound. But from the moment Jon Ohman saw "The Right Stuff," the movie that chronicled America’s race into space, he knew: He was a Yeager all the way. “That movie introduced me to the mystique of test pilots,” Ohman says. “It made me realize as a kid that the world of flight test is where I wanted to be.”
Powering Laos on Many Levels
"Originally published on Wouter Van Wersch’s LinkedIn. Wouter is the President and CEO of GE Asia Pacific.
My first visit to Laos in September 2016, coincided with President Obama’s trip - when he became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the nation - and since then, I have always been impressed by the progress being made in the country whenever I return.
Aerospace
Air Born: How A Secret World War I Project Launched GE's Aviation Business
Last weekend, the world remembered 100 years since the end of World War I, a conflict that changed the map of Europe and left an estimated 17 million people dead. But amid its devastation and disruption, the war also accelerated the rise of new industries like aviation.
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