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Aerospace

The Daring Do: In The Cockpit With GE’s Chief Test Pilot

Maggie Sieger
December 11, 2018

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.”

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3D Printing

The 3D-Printed Age: Why This Futuristic Ohio Factory Is Proving Mark Twain Wrong

Tomas Kellner
November 30, 2018

Mark Twain allegedly claimed that when the end of the world came, he wanted to be in Cincinnati “because it’s always 20 years behind the times.” The quip is funny, but his strategy to ride out Armageddon in the Queen City would backfire today. A case in point is GE’s Additive Technology Center located along Interstate 75 as it bisects the northern suburb of West Chester Township. From the outside, the building looks like many of the low, gray boxes in this industrial area.

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Jet Engine Testing

Time Flies: GE’s Original Flying Testbed Jets Off Into History

Brendan Coffey
November 28, 2018

The history of GE and modern aviation are closely linked. Few symbols embody the connection more than the original GE flying testbed, a 49-year-old Boeing 747-100 that served as an airborne lab for engineers testing generations of new jet engines. The plane, the last operating model of the first variant of the iconic 747 jet, made its final flight earlier this month.

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3D Printing

Transformation In 3D: How A Walnut-Sized Part Changed The Way GE Aviation Builds Jet Engines

Amy Kover
November 19, 2018
A jet engine fuel nozzle doesn’t look like much. Shaped like a water faucet perched atop two stubby legs, it resembles a forgotten piece of plumbing equipment small enough to hold in the palm of a hand. Few would ever guess that this unimposing object is among the most disruptive pieces of technology in GE history — one that gave rise to the world’s best-selling commercial jet engines, ignited a new GE business unit and showed the world just what 3D printing can do.
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Air Travel

The WOW Factor: Record-Breaking Jets Are Helping Airlines Enter An Era Of Ultra-Efficient Flight

Tomas Kellner
November 19, 2018

Reykjavik in January isn’t the cheeriest place. Darkness reigns for most of the day — the sun rises at 11 in the morning and sets just five hours later. The temperature hovers around freezing, and rain is frequently in the forecast. Earlier this year, 200-some souls waited at Reykjavik’s Keflavik airport to swap the dank twilight for California sunshine. But the plane that had been scheduled for their flight was out of service, and officials were weighing their options.

Aerospace

Air Born: How A Secret World War I Project Launched GE's Aviation Business

Tomas Kellner
November 14, 2018
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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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Veterans

Ken And The Art Of Jet Engine Maintenance: How A Father-Daughter Team Learned To Fix Planes On The Kansas Prairie

Tomas Kellner
November 09, 2018
Kenny Glasgow has never set foot in an executive suite, but that didn’t stop him from taking a private plane to the office. In the 1960s, Glasgow — who spent his career fixing jet engines at GE Aviation’s Strother Field plant in Kansas — saved up his wages to buy a Cessna 150 two-seater. “One fall, the Arkansas River flooded and the road to Strother was closed for several days,” Glasgow says. “I had about a quarter of a mile of alfalfa just east of the house. You could land down there when it wasn’t too tall. So I just flew to work.”
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Fast Forward: This Tech Accelerator Is Bringing Digital Twins To America’s Capital

Dorothy Pomerantz
October 24, 2018
The U.S. military has the world’s largest aircraft fleet. With 5,500 Air Force planes, 5,000 belonging to the Army and 3,500 for the Navy, the military has more air power than the top 10 commercial airlines combined.
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Supersonic Travel

Fast Friends: The World’s First Supersonic Business Jet Gets A New Engine

Tomas Kellner
October 16, 2018
The Concorde had its place in the sun for 27 years, shuttling passengers between Europe, the Americas and Singapore at supersonic speeds. But when British Airways retired the last jet in 2003 “for commercial reasons with passenger revenue falling steadily against a backdrop of rising maintenance costs for the aircraft,” it also put the brakes on commercial supersonic flight.
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World Record

Now Boarding The World’s Longest Flight: A Passenger Jet From Singapore Lands In Newark After Nearly 18 Hours

Tomas Kellner
October 13, 2018
A Singapore Airlines passenger jet completed the world’s longest flight on October 12 by covering 10,291 miles between Singapore and Newark, New Jersey, in 17 hours and 52 minutes. The flight, SQ22, arrived 31 minutes early, according to FlightAware.
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