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Champions of Change: Opportunities and Challenges For Women in STEM

March 12, 2018
To promote fresh thinking, new ideas and perspectives in STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Mathematics) sectors, many companies, and organizations are encouraging young women to pursue STEM-related careers.
It’s estimated that women account for less than a third of those employed in STEM R&D jobs around the world today. In the U.S., women are underrepresented in both computer and mathematics roles (24.7%) and engineering and architecture (15.1%).
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Aerospace

Hot Wings: SpiceJet To Buy Engines, Services Valued At $12.5 Billion

Tomas Kellner
March 10, 2018
India’s SpiceJet may have been just a blip on the radar screen a few years ago, but the budget carrier’s profile is swiftly rising. In 2017, Bloomberg Intelligence picked SpiceJet as the world’s best performing airline stock.
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Aerospace

A New Name In Flight: The Advanced Turboprop Becomes The GE Catalyst

Tomas Kellner
March 07, 2018
Every year, millions of tourists flock to Prague, drawn by its cobbled streets, storied architecture and thousand-year history. But as alluring as its past may be, a group of GE Aviation engineers who traveled to the city last December were there to witness the future.
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Aerospace

Engine Czech: This University Partnership Is Set To Propel Turboprop Engineering To New Heights

Tomas Kellner
February 13, 2018
GE has spent the last 100 years building GE Aviation into a leading force in the aerospace industry.
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Aerospace

Flying High: How Leasing Fueled The Takeoff Of The Airline Industry

Bruce Watson
Dorothy Pomerantz
February 06, 2018
Back in 1967, Allegheny Airlines was a small business with a big idea — connect dozens of American cities with regular flights.
But to do that, Allegheny needed wings. It bought regional carriers like Indiana’s Lake Central airlines and New York’s Mohawk Airlines to provide coverage east of the Mississippi River and in parts of Canada. But it still wasn’t enough. The problem: Planes are expensive and Allegheny couldn’t afford to buy the new aircraft it needed.
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How Jessintha Nathan’s Aviation Career Took Flight

February 05, 2018
To promote fresh thinking, new ideas and perspectives in STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Mathematics) sectors, many companies, and organizations are encouraging young women to pursue STEM-related careers. It’s estimated that women account for less than a third of those employed in STEM R&D jobs around the world today.
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Aerospace

How One Little Engine Launched A Career That Spanned The Jet Age

Dorothy Pomerantz
Bruce Watson
January 24, 2018
Dave Seiwert was fresh out of high school in 1956 when he got the opportunity of a lifetime. In his parents’ garage, the 18-year-old built a 30-pound, 3-foot-long ramjet — a jet engine that uses forward motion to compress incoming air — and entered it into a local Youth Opportunity Day engineering competition. He won first place and with it an internship at GE’s Jet Engine Department in Evendale, Ohio.
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Aerospace

SilkAir’s Growth Leaps On Regional Demand

January 04, 2018
 
The arrival and departure halls of major Asia Pacific airports such as Changi in Singapore, Pudong in Shanghai, Suvarnabhumi in Bangkok, and Seoul Incheon, and others in popular smaller city airports such as Hiroshima, Tribhuvan in Kathmandu, and Australia’s Cairns Airport have never been busier.
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Aerospace

Fired Up: GE Successfully Tested Its Advanced Turboprop Engine With 3D-Printed Parts

Tomas Kellner
January 02, 2018
"Stephen Erickson was just 13 years old when he fell in love with planes — inside a Boston movie theater. He was watching aircraft mechanic Joe Patroni, played by George Kennedy in the original “Airport” movie, extricate a Boeing jet full of worried passengers from a snowdrift. “That moment was the spark that changed my life,” he says. “I wanted to build aircraft engines.” He enrolled in a technical school and joined GE Aviation, where he has become an ace test engineer — a real-world Patroni.
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Extreme Measures: Souped-Up Black Hawk Helicopters Are Helping Crews In California Battle Deadly Wildfires

Tomas Kellner
December 13, 2017

Crews in California are fighting another deadly wave of wildfires, which have killed and injured dozens of people, burned millions of acres and destroyed thousands of structures. In December, for example, the Skirball fire closed the 405 Freeway, a major traffic artery linking Los Angeles with the San Fernando Valley, and burned homes in Bel-Air, one of the nation’s poshest neighborhoods. “This is kind of the new normal,” Gov.

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