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On The Shoulders Of Giants: Qatar Airways Agrees To Long-Term Order Of GE Jet Engines And Services

Tomas Kellner
July 10, 2019
When David Joyce, GE Aviation president and CEO, unveiled his company’s latest jet engine at the Paris Air Show last month, he called it “the biggest, most advanced wide-body engine in the world.” He wasn’t kidding. Looming over him was the engine’s massive front fan spanning 11 feet in diameter.
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Cooling Your Jets: Hypersonic Flight Is Coming And These Technologies Will Help It Take Off

Tomas Kellner
July 03, 2019

Thomas Edison was famously fond of failures, using them as guideposts to new solutions. But the GE founder wasn’t the only person in the company espousing this lemons-to-lemonade philosophy. Take Sanford Moss, a bright engineer from Cornell University who joined the company in 1904 and proceeded to develop one of the first gas turbines. Problem was, the machine didn’t work.

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Find Me If You Can: The Great Scavenger Hunt For GE Technology At The Paris Air Show

Tomas Kellner
June 26, 2019
On Sept. 1, 1930, a red Breguet 19 Super Bidon biplane took off from Le Bourget, Paris’ then-main airport, and landed in aviation history 37 hours and 12 minutes later at New York’s Curtiss Field. Unlike Charles Lindbergh, who flew nonstop east from New York to Le Bourget in 1927, the pilots Dieudonné Costes and Maurice Bellonte powered through the prevailing headwinds over the Atlantic and completed the more difficult westbound leg between the two cities for the first time.
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GE, CFM Wrap Paris Air Show With Record $55 Billion In New Deals

Tomas Kellner
June 20, 2019

La Compagnie’s new Airbus A321neo jet isn’t a large plane as passenger jets go — it fits 76 reclining seats in its all-business class configuration — but when it arrived at the Paris Air Show on Tuesday, it heralded big changes in the industry.

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Feeling Supersonic: Jets Traveling At 1,150 MPH Get A Boost From Regulators

Kristin Kloberdanz
June 20, 2019
The glamorous age of the Concorde may soon be returning, if you can afford it. A few companies are developing small supersonic business jets that will be able to travel as fast as 1,150 miles per hour. Plane-makers like Boeing and Aerion, along with NASA, are coming up with new, quieter designs. GE Aviation is building a new civilian supersonic jet engine. Now at the Paris Air Show, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is moving to streamline the process to get supersonic aircraft the approvals they need to take to the air.
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Paris Air Show

Tour De Force: GE’s Giant GE9X Jet Engine Explained In Pictures

Tomas Kellner
June 19, 2019

The 2019 Paris Air Show has been one for the records books for GE and CFM International, a 50-50 joint venture between GE and Safran Aircraft Engines. As of Tuesday, the companies have won deals valued at more than $50 billion. But the show wasn’t only about the money. It was also about technology and engineering.

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Game of Planes: Microsoft and GE Are Applying Insights From Video Games To Air Travel

Fred Guterl
June 19, 2019
Video game makers don’t just sell games. They use technology to develop an ongoing relationship with players and then “monetize” those relationships. For instance, a fan who is reluctant to purchase a game outright may be persuaded by frequent “microtransactions” that are content-related to drive a more emotional connection with the consumer. And at a later point, when the game makers have made that emotional connection, they trust that through this meaningful engagement the gamer will eventually buy.
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Paris Air Show

Analyze This: How A Billion Points Of Data Will Light The Path Toward Cleaner, More Efficient Air Travel

Amy Kover
June 19, 2019
In 1927, pilot Charles Lindbergh wowed onlookers when he landed at Le Bourget Airport upon completing the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight in history. More than 90 years later, spectacles still abound at this legendary site, chief among them the Paris Air Show, the largest annual aerospace-related gathering in the world. When viewers peer into the skies this year, they won’t be marveling at a single pilot’s derring-do but instead will see how billions of data points teeming through each aircraft can transform the aerospace industry.
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A $23 Billion Deal With AirAsia Extends CFM’s Record Run At Paris Air Show

Tomas Kellner
June 18, 2019

On Monday afternoon at the Paris Air Show, jet engine maker CFM International said it signed the largest single jet engine order in history to supply fast-growing Indian carrier IndiGo with its LEAP-1A engines and services — a deal valued at more than $20 billion at list price.

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CFM Kicks Off Paris Air Show With $20 Billion Deal, Largest Ever

Tomas Kellner
June 17, 2019
Speaking at a press conference before the Paris Air Show on Saturday morning, Gaël Méheust, president and CEO of the jet engine maker CFM International, told a room full of aviation reporters that its next-generation LEAP jet engine was “a big success.” He might have added: “You haven’t seen anything yet!”
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