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300th Hornet jet engine takes wing

November 09, 2015
“You could call it a ‘hole in-the-wall’ contract: When the RAAF needs a new Hornet engine to install on a jet, they put their hand through a hole in the wall, and they pull out an engine,” says Adam Watterson, sales director, GE Aviation Military Systems Operation.
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Give and Take: How GE Aviation is Profiting from the GE Store

November 05, 2015
GE Aviation, one of GE’s largest and most profitable units, generated $24 billion in revenues in 2014. Talking to investors this week just before the Dubai Air Show, David Joyce, its chief executive, said the powerful mix of GE’s technological breakthroughs and the overall growth in airline traffic is keeping him bullish about GE Aviation’s outlook.
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Michael Gill: Can Aviation Help Us Meet the Development Goals?

Michael Gill Executive Director Of The Air Transport Action Group Atag
October 25, 2015

The aviation industry must work together to achieve sustainable growth, sharing the burden as well as the benefits.

 
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Rep. Bill Shuster: How to Keep American Aviation Competitive

Rep Bill Shuster Chairman Of The U S House Committee On Transportation And Infrastructure
October 05, 2015

Let’s pass legislation to modernize the U.S. aviation system by doing what our competitors have already done — separate air traffic control operations from the safety regulator.

 
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How Big Data and the Industrial Internet Can Help Southwest Save $100 Million on Fuel

October 05, 2015
Map out one million flight plans each year for Southwest Airlines. Everything from planeloads of chilly Chicagoans heading for vacations in Cancun to budget-minded businesspeople dashing from Los Angeles to New York. It’s difficult. Now try toting up the countless variables on each one of those flights, such as the air’s humidity and the fuel load on each leg, in hopes of accurately calculating their impact on the bottom line.
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Touching Down on “This Cursed Rock”: First Plane Lands in Napoleon’s Last Exile

September 21, 2015
 
The island of Saint Helena is one of the world’s most remote places. Surrounded by the deep, cold waters of the South Atlantic, the British territory is famous for serving as the final exile of the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and the place where he drew his last breath. There are 4,250 people living on the volcanic outcrop, which Napoleon dubbed “this cursed rock.” Their only link to the world has been a five-day ride on packet ship that arrives once every three weeks.
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Data—an airline’s most productive jet stream

September 10, 2015
Modern jet engines talk a lot, streaming data by the terabyte. It’s how you interpret that machine speak that can make a big difference to an airline—to safety, operating costs and on-time performance. In Virgin Australia’s Brisbane hangar, GE field service engineers Clint Smith and Darren Murphy are embedded with the airline team to support the most efficient running of GE engines. They have, between them, a decade of experience with Virgin, and a hotline to GE Aviation in Cincinnati.
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Like Flying 200 Elephants and a Jumbo Jet Full of Oil: What It Takes to Build a New Power Grid in Six Weeks

August 10, 2015
Last December, Egypt decided to move aggressively to avoid power cuts and brownouts during its sweltering desert summer, when the average high temperature hovers above 90 degrees Fahrenheit for months. It had little time to spare. The heat starts rising early in the spring and country’s existing power plants were already operating at peak capacity to support Egypt’s booming economy.
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24 Hours at Oshkosh: A Photo Essay from The World’s Largest Gathering of Aviators

July 23, 2015
Paul Poberezny, the founder of the world’s largest gathering of aviation enthusiasts in Oshkosh, Wis., was born to a poor Midwest family. But he grew up to be wealthy. “I ended up being a millionaire because I have a million friends,” he told the news site for pilots AVweb.
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No Room For Error: Pilot and Innovator Steve Fulton Talks about the “Alarm and Frustration” That Gave Birth to a Revolution in Aircraft Navigation

June 14, 2015
A pilot  landing in Queenstown, the popular mountain resort in New Zealand, recently stuck a GoPro camera in his cockpit and recorded the last thrilling minutes of his flight. The video, which has since gone viral, shows the plane skirting jagged mountain peaks and piercing a thick blanket of clouds above the runway, before safely touching down.
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