Aerospace
Well Played: For Researcher Marie-Agathe Charpagne, Music And Metals Go Hand In Hand
But when Marie-Agathe Charpagne sat down to play “Apres une Lecture de Dante” by Franz Liszt, in 2016, she was perfectly composed. In front of an audience of her fellow competitors, her hands flew over the keys, always landing on the right notes, while her bare feet skimmed the pedals, giving added depth to the music flowing from the instrument.
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GE Aviation And Its Partners Win $22 Billion In New Deals At Farnborough Airshow
It’s been a week splashed with sunshine at the Farnborough International Airshow — an unusual sight for England in July — but GE Aviation still made it rain. The GE unit that makes aircraft engines, plane components, avionics and other aerospace technology said it and its partner, CFM International, have won orders valued at more than $22 billion at list price.
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Thinking Big: GE Lands A $2.5 Billion Engine Deal With Airlines Operating Giant Freighters
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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Jet Engines Are Not The Only GE Tech Powering Boeing’s Latest Wide-Body Passenger Jet
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An App Store For Airplanes: ‘Open Avionics’ Brings Aerospace Software Into The Modern Age
Sign up for a new bank account or buy a new car and chances are you’ll be prompted to download corresponding apps that will give you the ability to control your finances or your car stereo from your phone. Constantly updating your phone in this way — so it’s customized to your life — is so routine at this point that most of us just take it for granted.
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What World Cup? What Wimbledon? Aviation’s Own Grand Slam Event Is Starting On Monday In Farnborough, England
Although soccer’s most coveted trophy is not coming home to England this summer after all — it’s going to spend the next four years in France — thousands of aviation enthusiasts are making the trip here. This weekend they started descending on Farnborough, a midsize town about an hour southwest of London. Every two years, the airport here hosts one of the largest airshows in the world, the Farnborough International Airshow, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year.