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Thinking Big: GE Lands A $2.5 Billion Engine Deal With Airlines Operating Giant Freighters

Tomas Kellner
July 18, 2018

The award for the most jaw-dropping display at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow goes to the Russian cargo airline Volga-Dnepr.

We mean it literally.

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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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