Aerospace
A Strategist with Insight: Remembering Jim Krebs, Aerospace Visionary Who Helped Launch GE into the Jet Age
My father, James Norton Krebs, began working as a test engineer at General Electric in 1946. It was just four years after America’s first jet flight.
Obituary
In Memory of John Lammas: GE Innovator and Engineering Legend Who Helped Change Jet Travel And Power Generation
In the spring of 2016, John Lammas was returning from the opening of a new power plant in Bouchain, about two hours north of Paris. The power station, the first equipped with a new ultra-efficient gas turbine from GE’s HA family, was officially certified by Guinness World Records as the most efficient combined-cycle power plant that afternoon.
Obituary
Jack Welch, The ‘Ultimate Manager’ Who Oversaw GE’s Rise To The Most Valuable Company, Dies at 84
Aerospace
The Last Of The Hush-Hush Boys: Joseph Sorota, Who Helped Build The First U.S. Jet Engine, Dies At 96
Joseph Sorota, likely the last member of the World War II-era top-secret team that designed the first U.S. jet engine, died Saturday at his home in Singer Island, Florida. He was 96.