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Test Early, Test Often: How the GE9X Engine Became GE Aerospace’s Most Advanced Certified Power Plant Yet

Christine Gibson
November 14, 2023

Ohio doesn’t get many sandstorms. But an hour east of Cincinnati, on an otherwise sunny day, a dust devil is brewing. Atop a towering scaffold, a row of hoses pumps out dense clouds of powder and grit. They are instantly sucked, like a horizontal tornado, into the spinning fan blades of a jet engine a few feet away.

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Aerospace

Hotter Air: Ceramics Are The Secret To Lighter, Faster Jet Engines

Brendan Coffey
Rick Kennedy
June 03, 2019

After examining the possibility of ceramics being used in flight in 2001, scientists from the Institute for Defense Analyses starkly concluded, “There may be more pigs flying than ceramics in the future.” It’s easy to see why when you think of a coffee mug: The material is great for handling heat but breaks catastrophically when met with force.

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Ready For Takeoff: This Apprentice Program Is Launching Jobs In A Jet Engine Factory For High School Kids

Maggie Sieger
April 25, 2017
The Hydes' oldest daughter is an IT business analyst, their son is a computer engineer, and their youngest daughter will be studying art and psychology. Scott Reynolds’ daughters, both of whom were at the top of their classes in high school and college, now work in education, one as a teacher and the other as an operations manager for a national charter school network. When they were young, their father showed them a profile American Girl magazine had written about their grandmother’s career at GE.
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Jeff Immelt: Leading A Digital Industrial Era

Jeffrey R Immelt GE
February 27, 2017
GE released its 2016 Annual Report today. It includes a letter to shareowners written by GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt. In the letter, Immelt shares his thinking about GE’s performance and role in the world. Here is a note he sent to employees as well as a link to the Annual Report:
 
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Aerospace

GE Invests $4.3 Billion To Build Next-Gen Jet Engines, Open New Factories In The US

Tomas Kellner
February 15, 2017
The GE9X jet engine that GE Aviation is developing for Boeing’s next-generation wide-body passenger jet, the 777X, is wider than the body of a Boeing 737 and more powerful than America’s first manned space rocket. It’s also a big deal for the company’s business. Although the world’s largest engine isn’t scheduled to enter service until around 2020, the company already has recorded some 700 orders and commitments valued at $28 billion at list price.
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Aerospace

Jet Engine So Large It Could Swallow A Subway Train Just Powered Through First Set Of Tests

October 26, 2016
The deep woods around Peebles, Ohio, are hiding a secret so big that it could write the next chapter in the history of aviation. At one of many test sites spread over a secluded valley, GE Aviation just completed initial ground testing of the GE9X — the largest jet engine ever built.
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materials

Keeping Guinness On Speed Dial: Here’s How GE Turbines Can Push Record Efficiency Ever Higher

Todd Alhart
August 12, 2016
Red Auerbach, the Boston Celtics’ legendary coach, said that all records were made to be broken. GE, which is moving its headquarters to Beantown, should feel right at home.
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FIA16

The Great Farnborough Airshow Scavenger Hunt For GE Tech

Tomas Kellner
July 16, 2016
GE technology has been hiding in many unexpected places at the Farnborough International Airshow, which ends on Sunday in England. It was in the wings of the latest wide-body plane from Airbus, the A350 XWB, in the engines of the next-generation Boeing 737 MAX, in the cockpit of the newest Gulfstream jet, and even under the hood of a brand-new F-18 Super Hornet. We dispatched pilot and photographer Adam Senatori to sniff it out. Here’s what he brought back.
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Space Age Ceramics Are Aviation's New Cup Of Tea

Tomas Kellner
July 13, 2016
People have been making things from iron and steel for more than 3,000 years. Machines built from their alloys have landed on the moon and reached the very bottom of the ocean. But engineers such as GE Aviation’s Sanjay Correa now believe that “we’re running out of headroom in metals.”
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Are You Ready For The 18-Hour Flight?

Tomas Kellner
July 12, 2016
The oil embargo of 1973 was a miserable period when American towns banned Christmas lights to save electricity, billboards urged citizens to “turn off the damn lights” and filling stations dispensed gasoline by appointment only. The crisis got everyone thinking seriously about innovation and energy efficiency. One result: the massive and efficient jet engines that power the world’s longest commercial flights today.
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