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With Final Delivery of Last 747, Dave Kircher Sees a New Era Dawning for GEnx

Jay Stowe
January 31, 2023

When the last 747-8F freighter rolls out of the completion center at Boeing’s wide-body aircraft factory in Everett, Washington, on Jan. 31, it will be a poignant moment for Dave Kircher.

“In aviation, everybody can probably tell you two things: the first time they flew anything and the first time they flew on a 747,” he says. For Kircher it was a British Airways flight to London early in his career. “I’ll never forget being on that upper deck of a 747. It’s just iconic.”

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In The Belly Of The Beast: Inside One Of The World’s Largest Cargo Jets

Tomas Kellner
July 14, 2016
Not all jet engines work hard when they’re in the air. Like off-duty pilots flying jump seat, GE sometimes moves its engines in the belly of the massive Antonov An-124 Ruslan freighters operated by the Volga-Dnepr Group. Among the GE businesses that take advantage of the planes' 150-ton cargo capacity is GE Power, which uses them to ship entire power plants to far corners of the world.
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We've Watched The World’s Newest Cargo Jet Swallow A Supersonic Car

Tomas Kellner
July 12, 2016
The most unusual machine at this week’s Farnborough International Airshow in England isn’t a plane at all but a life-size model of the Bloodhound, a jet-powered car vying not only to break the speed of sound but also crash through the 1,000-mph barrier.
Though the car is impressive, the real show-stopper may be its ride: the massive cargo jet that could soon carry it to the racetrack. That plane, a brand-new Boeing 747-8 freighter powered by a quartet of GEnx engines, arrived in Farnborough on its maiden voyage from Boeing’s factory in Everett, Washington.
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