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Flying High: Jenna Dolan Set A Record As A Marine Corps Fighter Pilot, Then Brought Her Leadership To GE

Kristin Kloberdanz
March 07, 2020
As an eighth-grader in Minnesota, Jenna Dolan was dreaming big. She knew she wanted to be a pilot in the U.S. Marine Corps. Even her middle school classmates could see she was always up for a challenge: In their school yearbook, they voted her most likely to accomplish her goals.
Dolan didn’t have to look far for her career inspiration: Flying is in her family’s DNA. Her father served as a Marine Corps pilot during the Vietnam War era, flying the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, a single-seat attack aircraft. After he retired from active duty, he became a commercial pilot for Northwest Airlines.
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Aerospace

Big In Japan: Nation’s Largest Airline Places Order For GE-Powered Dreamliners

February 28, 2020
Barely three weeks have passed since the GE90 — the jet engine that reinvented the logistics, economics and aesthetics of passenger air travel — celebrated its 25th birthday. But the technology inside that trailblazing engine, until recently the most powerful jet engine in the world, is proving to be the gift that keeps on giving.
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Aerospace

Big Deal: The Air Force’s Largest Transport Craft, Powered By GE Engines, Taxis Into The Spotlight

Sam Worley
Tomas Kellner
February 20, 2020
There’s a reason the C-5M Super Galaxy plane looks like a whale with wings: The latest version of a military transport jet first developed 50 years ago by Lockheed, this behemoth can carry two battle tanks across the Pacific Ocean in a matter of hours on a single tank of jet fuel. In fact, it’s the largest transport aircraft in the U.S. Air Force’s entire fleet.
Aerospace

Silver Jubilee: Trailblazing GE Jet Engine Celebrates Its 25th Birthday

February 14, 2020
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Groundhog Day 1995 will go down in the history books, and not just because Punxsutawney Phil cast no shadow. While the sky was cloudy in Pennsylvania on Friday, Feb. 2, 1995, a new chapter in commercial aviation was dawning by the Ohio River.

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History

From Memphis Belle to The Cold Blue: The B-17 and the Treasure of WWII Archival Footage

Jay Stowe
February 14, 2020
The Second World War can claim a number of firsts—the vast majority of which live in infamy to this day. But being the first major war documented exhaustively on film has an occasional upside. Case in point: 15 hours of raw color footage revealing what it was really like to be a crewman on a B-17 Flying Fortress in the skies over Europe.
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Aerospace

Taking Wing: Boeing’s 777X, Powered By GE’s Record-Breaking Engines, Soars Above Seattle

January 26, 2020

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.

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Aerospace

Larger Than Life: Ted Ingling Started Out As Car Mechanic. Now He Is Building The World’s Largest Jet Engine

Tomas Kellner
January 26, 2020

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.

Electrification Softwarel Airlines

Flying By Numbers: This GE Software Will Help Emirates Pilots Fly Smarter

Maggie Sieger
January 16, 2020
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Pilots for Emirates, the Dubai-based air carrier, have always flown straight. Now they’re going to fly “smart,” too: Emirates is adopting a GE Aviation data and analytics platform that will allow airline analysts and pilots to understand how their planes are operating with a high degree of precision, accuracy and automation.

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Epic Volunteers and Epic Homes: Supporting Local Communities with GE

December 19, 2019
At GE, we believe in epic support for the communities in which we are based. For the last six years, we have been proudly partnering with the outstanding work of Epic Homes in Malaysia. Epic Homes is an inspiring organisation committed to building new homes for underprivileged communities across the country.
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Future of Flight

Stayin’ Alive: Trusty GE Chopper Engine That Entered Service When The Bee Gees Ruled The Charts Wins New $1 Billion Lease On Life

Amy Kover
Tomas Kellner
December 16, 2019
The United States was still deeply enmeshed in the Vietnam War when Gerhard Neumann, an engineer who helped launched the jet age as well as GE’s aviation business, visited the battlefield. The U.S. military wanted a two-engine helicopter that could fly faster and farther and be more easily maintained in the harsh tropical environment. Neumann, a Jewish war refugee who found a new home in America after escaping Nazi Germany, spent time in the combat zone interviewing Army aircraft maintenance crews to learn more about their needs.
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