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Aerospace

Czech This Out: Like the Wright Flyer, GE’s Turboprop Business Was Born in a Bike Shop

Tomas Kellner
November 17, 2015
GE unveiled a new advanced turboprop engine yesterday that produces 10 percent more power than its peers and burns 20 percent less fuel. Its design can extend time between overhauls by as much as 30 percent. Textron Aviation, the company behind such aircraft brands as Beechcraft, Cessna and Bell Helicopter, will use the engine to power a new plane that’s currently in development.
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Aerospace

“The Biggest Win:” New Engine Set to Lift GE’s Turboprop Business to New Heights

November 16, 2015
Textron Aviation, the world’s largest maker of business propeller planes like Beechcraft Bonanza, Baron and King Air, said today it would use a brand new advanced turboprop engine developed by GE to power its latest single-engine turboprop plane. The engine burns 20 percent less fuel and produces 10 percent more power, compared to engines in its class.
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Minds-Machines

Let’s Get Digital: Aviation Software Center Takes Flight in Dubai

Kristin Kloberdanz
Tomas Kellner
November 14, 2015
GE Aviation’s latest technology center sits tucked away from the hustle and bustle of Dubai International Airport, inside the Dubai Airport Free Zone and just steps away from the executive jet terminal, a location handy for easy access. From the outside, the place looks like just another glass-and-concrete office tower that sprouted in this desert metropolis over the last decade. But step inside its spaceship-like lobby, with walls inlaid with varnished white panels and flat-screen displays illuminated by chameleonic LEDs, and you’ll feel transported into the future.
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Dubai Air Show

GE Signs $16 Billion Deal to Service Emirates' Next-Gen Jet Engines

Tomas Kellner
November 10, 2015
There is no region in the world with a higher concentration of large GE jet engines than the Middle East.
The Dubai-based airline Emirates alone has 131 GE90-powered 777s in service and their engines just completed 1 million cycles, or trips – each cycle includes one takeoff and one landing. That number is now set to grow faster since Emirates has 44 more 777s with the same engine on order.
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Dubai Air Show

Under the Tuscan Sun: The World’s Largest Jet Engine Was Born in Michelangelo’s Backyard

Tomas Kellner
November 09, 2015
The seaside Tuscan town of Massa defies the Italian stereotype of vineyards and sun-soaked hilltops. True, Michelangelo got stone for David from nearby marble quarries, but today Massa is best known for massive machines and heavy-duty engineering. It’s the birthplace of several industrial goliaths, including GE’s latest jet engine, the GE9X.
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Dubai Air Show

The World’s Largest Passenger Plane and Other Highlights from Day One at Dubai Air Show

Tomas Kellner
November 08, 2015
The 2015 Dubai Air Show opened for business on Sunday. Cities in the United Arab Emirates like Dubai and Abu Dhabi have become major aviation hubs over the last two decades and carriers based in the Middle East such as Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways have become powerful global players. As a result, the Dubai Air Show, which is held every two years at the Al Makhtoum International Airport located in a desert just outside the city, has become a major industry trade event on par with the Paris and Farnborough airshows.
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Aerospace

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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Distributed Power

GE Inks $1 Billion in Deals to Help Solve Indonesia’s Electricity Gap, Fix Locomotives

October 26, 2015
GE signed four deals with Indonesia for a variety of critical energy and transport projects, the company said today. GE said the estimated combined value of the transactions exceeded $1 billion.
Three of the agreements will significantly boost power-generation capacity in Southeast Asia's biggest economy. The fourth accord provides maintenance for locomotives.
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Jet engines

The Jet Set: GE Jet Engines Land on Louis Vuitton’s Paris Runway

Krista Carroll
October 23, 2015
Every two seconds, a jet engine with GE technology inside departs from an airport somewhere in the world. But earlier this month, the machines touched down on a runway more used to seeing models and brands take off. It ran straight down Louis Vuitton’s fashion show in Paris.
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Jet engines

Power in Numbers: GE Rolls Out GEnx Engine No. 1,000 in Only Five Years Since Entering Service

Krista Carroll
October 20, 2015
Last June at the Paris Airshow, Boeing test pilots Randy Neville and Van Chaney performed a near-vertical takeoff with the Vietnam Airlines’ brand new extended version of the Dreamliner passenger jet powered by a pair of GEnx engines. It turns out that sales of engines are climbing nearly as fast.
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