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GE’s Jet Engine Unit Brings Home $36 Billion in New Business at Farnborough Airshow

July 16, 2014

The Middle East is quickly becoming a new global aviation hub with big plans for the future. Nowhere are those plans better visible than at giant airshows like the one in Farnborough, UK, which finished this week. Emirates and Qatar Airlines, for example, finalized multi-billion orders for Boeing’s next-generation 777X long-haul planes, building on a momentum from last year’s Dubai airshow.

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World's First Plant to Print Jet Engine Nozzles in Mass Production

July 15, 2014
GE is taking mass production to a lofty new level. The company is pulling 3D printing out of the lab and installing it at the heart of the world’s first factory for printing jet engine fuel nozzles in Auburn, Ala.
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Aerial Intelligence: This Airbus Makes Pilots Smarter

July 14, 2014

At first glance, Air Asia’s fleet of Airbus A320 planes look like any other passenger aircraft. But look under the hood and you will find an array of sensors and proprietary technology developed by GE that make their pilots smarter.

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Brazil’s “Little Canaries” Fly Green on Their Way to the Top

July 02, 2014
Lush soccer pitches are not the only green biomass supporting the Brazilian national football team as it battles for the world’s most coveted soccer trophy. The country’s GOL airline is ferrying Los Canarinhos to matches around Brazil using planes powered by a mixture of corn oil, cooking oil and jet fuel.
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The First Production HondaJet Completes Maiden Flight

July 01, 2014

The first production HondaJet business jet took off from an airstrip at Honda Aircraft’s global headquarters in Greensboro, NC, last Friday. The flight was part of FAA certification and the company expects the aircraft will enter service in 2015.

The maiden voyage also marked GE’s return to the executive jet business, a market the company helped create in the 1960s when engineers converted the J85 military jet engine into propulsion for the first Learjet.

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Fit to Print: New Plant Will Assemble World’s First Passenger Jet Engine With 3D Printed Fuel Nozzles, Next-Gen Materials

June 23, 2014
GE Aviation will open a new assembly plant in Indiana to build the world’s first passenger jet engine with 3D printed fuel nozzles and next-generation materials, including heat-resistant ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) and breakthrough carbon fiber fan blades woven in all three dimensions at once.
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How Thomas Edison's Unsung Invention Led to the World's Most Powerful Jet Engine

June 20, 2014
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This is How a Jet Engine Works. "Masterclass" Videos Explain It All and More

June 16, 2014
Any kid who lost the training wheels can describe how a bicycle works, and most adults with a driver’s license can do the same for a car engine. But ask a random person about a jet engine and you’re likely to draw a blank. “Millions of people fly every day and few of them know how their plane stays in the sky,” says Todd Wetzel, aerospace engineer at GE Global Research (GRC). “Yet the principle is so simple; it’s action and reaction, nothing more than Newton’s physics. We all learned it in middle school.”
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Scientists Use "Big Bang" Supercomputer to Build Better Jet Engine

June 08, 2014
At California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the world’s most powerful computers are working on some of our most fundamental questions about the universe. The Sierra supercomputer, for example, is delving into the Big Bang and trying to figure out why elementary particles have mass.
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How the Amazing Copper Man and Electric Blankets Gave Birth to WWII High-Altitude Flying Suit

June 05, 2014

The majority of the 160,000 Allied troops that invaded occupied France on this day 70 years ago arrived on ships and landing vessels.  But some 13,000 parachuted early on D-Day from planes flown by pilots who had already been fighting over Europe since 1940.

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