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3D Printing

Adding It Up: This Factory Is 3D-Printing Arm-Sized Metal Parts For The World’s Largest Jet Engine

Yari Bovalino
Brendan Coffey
May 04, 2019

Nestled in the rolling hills of the Po Valley, the small town of Cameri looks like a postcard Italian village, complete with a classic piazza surrounded by traditional-style buildings and a church. It’s a startling contrast, then, that less than a mile from the center of this village sits a major hub of aerospace innovation, anchored by one of largest 3D-printing factories in the world. Operated by Avio Aero, a GE Aviation company, the plant makes the arm-sized blades for the GE9X engine, the world’s largest jet engine.

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Aerospace

A Blast From The Past: This Edison Discovery Powers The World's Largest Jet Engine

Tomas Kellner
January 18, 2019
Everyone knows that Thomas Edison created the modern lightbulb. But it’s a lesser-known Edison discovery — tied to the bulb’s birth — that’s now enjoying the limelight.
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Aerospace

The Grand Total: Boeing Pairs The World's Largest Twin-Engine Jet With The World's Largest Jet Engine From GE

Tomas Kellner
January 07, 2019

Boeing just released the first pictures of the world’s largest twin-engine jet, the 777X, equipped with the world’s largest jet engine, the GE9X. The plane is scheduled for its maiden flight this year.

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Aerospace

The Daring Do: In The Cockpit With GE’s Chief Test Pilot

Maggie Sieger
December 11, 2018

If you asked most kids in the 1980s, "Are you an Alan Shepard or a Chuck Yeager?," many would pick America’s first astronaut over the test pilot who became the first human to fly faster than the speed of sound. But from the moment Jon Ohman saw "The Right Stuff," the movie that chronicled America’s race into space, he knew: He was a Yeager all the way. “That movie introduced me to the mystique of test pilots,” Ohman says. “It made me realize as a kid that the world of flight test is where I wanted to be.”

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Jet Engines Are Not The Only GE Tech Powering Boeing’s Latest Wide-Body Passenger Jet

Fred Guterl
July 17, 2018
The sleek, raptorlike wings with folding tips of Boeing’s new wide-body passenger jet, the 777X, are not the only departure from the earlier aircraft in the successful 777 series.
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The Blade Runners: This Factory Is 3D Printing Turbine Parts For The World's Largest Jet Engine

Tomas Kellner
March 20, 2018

The Northern Italian town of Cameri could be easily mistaken for a quiet farming commune. But take a short ride through the rolling fields of the fertile Po Valley that surround it and you’ll discover a startling contrast.

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Aerospace

Uplifting News: The World’s Largest Jet Engine Takes Maiden Flight

Tomas Kellner
March 15, 2018
The world’s largest jet engine took its maiden flight over the Mojave Desert on Tuesday. The engine is a showstopper. At 134 inches, its fan diameter is so tall and wide that a professional basketball player would fit inside the engine's cover with several feet to spare. The whole engine is as wide as the body of an entire Boeing 737.
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Keeping It Cool: New ‘Eco’ Technologies Are Helping Countries Reach Their Carbon-Cutting Goals

Kristin Kloberdanz
November 06, 2017
The company decided to take advantage of the nearby Joint Strike Fighter assembly plant and set up its additive manufacturing shop nearby. “The location was part of our strategy,” Abrate says. “The Lockheed plant made the town become very visible among aerospace companies. We wanted to promote 3D printing to potential customers and they were all coming here.”
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The World’s Largest Jet Engine Starts Certification Testing

June 20, 2017
Everything that has happened to this point — the hundreds of hours of bombardment with ice, the exposure to dust and debris that simulated 3,000 takeoffs and landings — was just the prelude. In recent weeks, the GE9X, the largest jet engine ever built, has started its certification testing at GE Aviation's bootcamp for jet engines in Peebles, Ohio.
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3D Printing

Da Vinci Code 2.0: How 3D Printing And Digital Technologies Are Altering The Face Of Aircraft Engine Manufacturing In Italy

Tomas Kellner
Yari Bovalino
February 26, 2017
You won’t find the Italian commune of Cameri in many tourist guides. Located on the flat and fertile plains that stretch seemingly forever between Italy’s industrial dynamos of Milan and Turin, tiny Cameri seems a little lost. Like in most Italian towns, a splendid church and bell tower stand in the center, but during a recent visit in early February, its narrow streets were quiet and its stores either empty or closed. The busiest place in town was a pizzeria filled with a dozen locals finishing their lunch.
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