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Are You Ready For The World’s Largest Jet Engine? It’s As Wide As A Boeing 737 And More Powerful Than America's First Manned Space Rocket

Tomas Kellner
July 11, 2016
A 10 percent increase in fuel efficiency might not sound like a lot, but in aviation, according to Wired, “engineers would step over their own mothers for a one percent bump.”
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Advanced Manufaturing

Watch This Water-Guided Laser Machine Cut The Tiniest Holes In The Toughest Metals

Tomas Kellner
May 19, 2016
The project was so secret that team members had to pick up jackhammers, knock down walls and modify the workshop by themselves. Problems quickly popped up after they unpacked the engine from its box. “We didn’t have the right tools,” Sorota said. “Our wrenches didn’t fit the nuts and bolts because they were on the metric system. We had to grind them open a little more to get inside.”
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Innovation

The Science Of Hot: This Sauce Is So Fiery It Comes Wrapped In Jet Engine Supermaterial

Tomas Kellner
April 28, 2016
Earlier this year, GE and Thrillist tapped the hot sauce maker High River Sauces to brew them a hellishly hot sauce spiced up with flakes of the Carolina Reaper and the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, the planet’s two hottest peppers.
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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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Aerospace

Airbus Gets 1st Production Jet Engines With 3D-Printed Parts From CFM

Tomas Kellner
April 19, 2016
The European aircraft maker Airbus received the first two production models of the LEAP-1A engine for the next-generation Airbus A320neo passenger jet on April 2. The delivery is a milestone both for Airbus and CFM International, the 50/50 joint venture between GE Aviation and France’s Snecma (Safran) that developed them.
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Jet Engine With 3D-Printed Parts Powers Next-Gen Boeing 737 MAX For The First Time

Tomas Kellner
February 02, 2016
The latest-generation Boeing 737 MAX, powered by a pair of advanced LEAP-1B engines, made its maiden flight last Friday in Seattle. The flight lasted 2 hours and 47 minutes. “The flight was a success,” said Captain Ed Wilson, chief pilot for the 737 MAX program. “The 737 MAX just felt right in flight, giving us complete confidence that this airplane will meet our customers’ expectations.”
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Aerospace

Give and Take: How GE Aviation is Profiting from the GE Store

November 05, 2015
GE Aviation, one of GE’s largest and most profitable units, generated $24 billion in revenues in 2014. Talking to investors this week just before the Dubai Air Show, David Joyce, its chief executive, said the powerful mix of GE’s technological breakthroughs and the overall growth in airline traffic is keeping him bullish about GE Aviation’s outlook.
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Up, Up and Away: GE’s Billion Dollar Bet on Ceramic Super Material is Taking Off

July 13, 2015
People have been using ceramics for millennia, but the material’s practical applications have been mostly confined to the kitchen. “When you hit it, it fails catastrophically,” says Krishan Luthra, chief scientist for manufacturing and materials technologies at GE Global Research (GRC) in New York.
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A Passport to Fly: New Engines for Business Jets Tap Latest Military Tech

May 26, 2015
From GPS to the Internet, many everyday technologies have military roots. The same is true for jet engines, especially those powering business jets.
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