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Qantas and GE on the flight path to sustainability

December 01, 2016
Two innovative corporations are better, bigger and more influential in solving global problems than one. GE today became a foundation partner in the Qantas Future Planet Partnership, which aims to both reduce and offset carbon emissions and encourage wider participation in a sustainable future.
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Five Ways GE is Embracing ASEAN’s Power Generation Challenge

November 25, 2016
ASEAN has urgent power needs.

About 20% of the region’s population, 134 million people, live without electricity and the electrification rates vary considerably between the countries - 30% in Myanmar, 55% in Cambodia, all the way up to 100% in Singapore. To close the gap, Indonesia plans to add 20GW of electricity by 2019, while Cambodia and Myanmar hope to achieve 100% electrification in the next 10-15 years. At the same time, the region’s economic growth rate is above 5%, driving further electricity demand to power development.

 
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Qantas’s top 5 takeouts from Minds + Machines 2016

November 19, 2016
As Murray Adams, manager of operations, analytics and reporting at Qantas walked back through the great tech hall of Minds + Machines 2016, last Friday on his way to dinner in San Francisco before hopping a flying kangaroo for Sydney, he checked for: tickets, passport and valuable takeouts from the two-day festival of digital-industrial ideas and insights.
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Aerospace

Tomorrow’s Airlines: In Crisis Or Ready For Take-off?

Graham Knott
November 09, 2016

To meet the growing demand in air traffic, Boeing predicts that there will be a need for 617,000 commercial airline pilots between now and 2035. Commercial airlines are uniquely sensitive to global shocks and a volatile business environment. How they react to growth in demand will determine their future over the coming years, writes Graham Knott, senior vice president, global aviation practice for Marsh U.K.

 

 
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Aerospace

Jet Engine So Large It Could Swallow A Subway Train Just Powered Through First Set Of Tests

October 26, 2016
The deep woods around Peebles, Ohio, are hiding a secret so big that it could write the next chapter in the history of aviation. At one of many test sites spread over a secluded valley, GE Aviation just completed initial ground testing of the GE9X — the largest jet engine ever built.
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GE, Qantas—mining data for gold in Texas

October 07, 2016
Qantas and GE recently accelerated a decades-long, uplifting relationship into the digital-industrial cloud; the Flight Efficiency Services agreement, signed in September 2015, is already delivering on GE’s promise to increase the airline’s operational flexibility and fuel efficiency while reducing its carbon emissions.
This week marks the opening of a new frontier in the companies’ innovative alliance as Qantas becomes the launch partner in GE’s latest collaboration centre in Austin, Texas.
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Aerospace

Advanced Aircraft Research Will Help America Keep Its Aerospace Edge

Steve Knight Congressman
June 24, 2016

Nations are neck and neck in the race for innovative aeronautics. Taking a page from history, the U.S. can't miss the opportunity to continue leading the aviation industry, writes Rep. Steve Knight, R-Calif.

 

In 1903, the Wright brothers captured the world’s imagination by flying the first successful airplane. Their flight placed America upon the summit of world aviation, a feat we celebrate to this day.

Unfortunately we didn’t remain there very long.
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Tapping into the data flow: innovation leaders float big ideas

June 22, 2016
As data billows into the Cloud and innovation leapfrogs the impossible, stakeholders are seeking to shape the future and deliver solutions that make a difference. The 2016 GE/CSIRO Digital Industrial Series brings together the worlds of research and entrepreneurship, of business and industry to create a confluence of ideas that deliver!
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Aerospace

Up In The Air: The World’s Hardest-Working Jet Engine Has Logged 91,000 Years in Flight

Tomas Kellner
June 07, 2016
How long is 91,000 years? Go back that far in the history of the earth and the Sahara was a wet and fertile plateau. It's also the cumulative amount of time that the world’s most hardest-working jet engine, the CFM56, has spent in the air since its first commercial flight on a DC-8 Super 70 passenger jet in 1981.
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Aerospace

Next-Gen Airbus Jet Cleared For Takeoff By European And US Regulators

Tomas Kellner
May 31, 2016
Airbus opened a new chapter in passenger travel this morning when European and American regulators issued a key certification to its next-generation Airbus A320neo plane powered by a pair of advanced LEAP-1A jet engines.
The ruling, called type certification, from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) essentially clears the runway for the delivery of the first A320neo equipped with the LEAP engine to an airline customer in the middle of 2016.
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