History of Flight
The Wright Stuff: The Day Orville Wright Visited GE Aviation’s Future Headquarters
This summer, employees at GE Aviation gathered for a festive celebration outside the GE unit’s global headquarters in Evendale, Ohio, just north of Cincinnati. The star of the party was a massive jet engine — its front fan alone spans more than 11 feet in diameter — that GE developed for Boeing’s next-generation 777X widebody jet. The occasion?
Education
Talking About The Next Generation: Taking The Latest Tech To The Classroom
drones
Unmanned Traffic Management Pilot Program: FAA Drone Flight Testing Lands First Milestone
Electricity
Titans Of Industry: These Technologies Stand Head And Shoulders Above The Rest
Aerospace
Cows Weren't The Only Things Spotted At Wisconsin's Oshkosh Air Show. Here's The GE Tech That Was On Display At The World's Greatest Fly-In
Aerospace
The Woodstock For Pilots: 700,000 People Flock To Oshkosh As The World’s Largest Airshow Turns 50 This Year
Looking back at his illustrious career in aviation, Paul Poberezny said that he “didn’t think there has been a single day since I was five years old when I didn’t say the word ‘airplane.’”
Aerospace
Mad Props: This Digital Tech Makes Flying A Turboprop As Simple As Riding A Scooter
Apollo
The Test Pilot: Neil Armstrong And GE’s Elliot See Were First Civilian Astronauts
In the early fall of 1962, Neil Armstrong climbed into a car with GE test pilot Elliot See Jr. at what is now called the Armstrong Flight Research Facility in Edwards, California. They set out from the Mojave Desert town for NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston some 1,600 miles away.
It’s Official: Guinness World Records Certifies GE9X As The World’s Most Powerful Jet Engine
GE’s latest jet engine, the GE9X, keeps piling on the superlatives. Already the world’s largest commercial jet engine, it is also now the most powerful one, according to Guinness World Records.
Aerospace
History In The Making: How GE Turned America From Laggard To Leader In Jet Engine Design
When Frank Whittle’s seaplane landed at LaGuardia’s Marine Air Terminal in New York City in June 1942, the pioneering jet engine designer found himself in a country that prided itself on its technological prowess. And yet, with World War II in full swing, the American jet engines were embarrassingly far behind the British, who themselves had fallen behind their German foes.