Aerospace
Taking Wing: Boeing’s 777X, Powered By GE’s Record-Breaking Engines, Soars Above Seattle
It may have been drizzly in Everett, Washington, but the rain could not ruin the parade at Paine Field, an airport 20 miles north of Seattle. On Saturday afternoon, just as the sun peeked through the mist, a Boeing 777X took to the skies from Runway 16R-34L on its maiden flight. The twin-engine wide-body passenger jet spent nearly four hours airborne before returning to the airport, where it made a smooth landing.
Aerospace
The Next Generation: A Team Of Young Engineers Helped Bring 3D Printing Inside The World’s Largest Jet Engine
Stefka Petkova enjoys building things. It’s a passion she’s had since she was a small child when her dad, an electrician who liked to work on cars, kept the door to his workshop open. “I was exposed to that as a very young child and just got a lot of encouragement,” says Petkova, who she spent many afternoons watching him weld and wire automobiles.
Aerospace
Larger Than Life: Ted Ingling Started Out As Car Mechanic. Now He Is Building The World’s Largest Jet Engine
When Ted Ingling was growing up in a small town in Michigan, he wanted to be a car mechanic. But the plan didn’t work out, and the world might be a better place for it.
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Special Delivery: The World’s Most Powerful Engine One Step Closer to Liftoff In Boeing’s 777X Jet
The GE9X engine, the largest and most powerful commercial jet engine ever built, is a step closer to full liftoff. GE Aviation recently delivered the first four fully compliant GE9X engines to Boeing’s wide-body plant in Everett, Washington. A pair will take the aircraft maker’s new wide-body passenger jet, the Boeing 777X, to the sky for the first time.
Aerospace
Who’s Got the Chops? Bell, Sikorsky Reveal Visions For The Future Of Army Aviation
It’s too early to say what the next generation of U.S. Army attack and reconnaissance helicopters will look like. But they’ll be powered by GE engines.
Aerospace
Service Economy: New $1 Billion Deal Highlights Commercial Aviation’s Asia Growth
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The Greatest Program That Never Was: The US’s Answer To The Concorde Never Took Off — But It Helped Shape The Future Of Passenger Travel
First-time visitors arriving for a meeting at GE Aviation’s headquarters should give themselves a few extra minutes: Located in the Cincinnati suburb of Evendale, Ohio, the plant is huge, security is tight — and there are distractions everywhere. Perhaps the largest, a massive jet engine stretching some 27 feet long, collects dust along a wall inside Building 700. Too big to fit in the company’s museum, which is also located on the Evendale campus, the lone surviving GE4 turbojet is a stunning relic from an era when everything in commercial aviation seemed possible.
Long before AirAsia made a record-breaking $23.1 billion purchase of engines and services from CFM International, the owners of the once-struggling airline had big plans to develop a low-cost carrier.
Aerospace
An Unsung Hero: Jet Engineer John Blanton Pushed Both Technological And Social Progress
Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, not many GE Aviation engineers could walk as tall as John Blanton Sr. Then one of the company’s few high-ranking African Americans, he was known for doing things deemed impossible at the time. Such as charting a futuristic engine for the U.S. Air Force that could push a fighter jet to travel at Mach 3.5, equivalent to roughly 2,600 miles per hour — enough speed to get from New York City to Los Angeles in just over an hour. Or prototyping an engine that could enable planes to take off and land vertically.