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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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Jet engines

The Art of Engineering: The World’s Largest Jet Engine Shows Off Composite Curves

Tomas Kellner
April 28, 2016

Nick Kray is no Picasso, yet his work is on display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. A decade ago, MoMA’s design collection picked up a composite fan blade from the GE90 jet engine that Kray helped create. The blade’s onyx black sinuous curves are pleasing to look at, but for Kray they are no longer state of the art. “We are now working on the fourth generation of that technology,” Kray says.

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Aerospace

GE Started Testing The World’s Largest Jet Engine

Tomas Kellner
April 22, 2016
How large is the world’s largest jet engine? So large that a professional basketball player would fit inside it comfortably with several feet to spare. Engineers at GE Aviation just assembled the first of these engines and put it on a test stand at the company’s massive boot camp for jet engines located in the woods near Peebles, Ohio.
It’s a giant.
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