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Under the Tuscan Sun: The World’s Largest Jet Engine Was Born in Michelangelo’s Backyard

Tomas Kellner
November 09, 2015
The seaside Tuscan town of Massa defies the Italian stereotype of vineyards and sun-soaked hilltops. True, Michelangelo got stone for David from nearby marble quarries, but today Massa is best known for massive machines and heavy-duty engineering. It’s the birthplace of several industrial goliaths, including GE’s latest jet engine, the GE9X.
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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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Mother Knows Best: How Mohammad Ehteshami Traveled from a Pistachio Farm to the Pinnacle of Jet Engine Engineering

June 16, 2015
Mohammad Ehteshami has helped build the world’s largest and most powerful jet engines during his 31-year career at GE. But as a boy in a tiny desert village in Iran, odds were he would grow up farming pistachios. That is, until his mother intervened. I caught up with Ehteshami at the Paris Air Show, to talk about the latest jet engine technology.
Tomas Kellner: How did you end up running jet engine engineering at GE, arguably the world’s largest jet engine maker?
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How Many American Homes Can Boeing's New Wide Body Jet Power?

December 16, 2014

There are many luxuries that separate first class fliers from their fellow travelers going coach in the back of the plane, but in-flight entertainment isn’t one of them. The personal multiple-choice video screen standard on most long-haul flights has democratized the passenger deck and allowed anyone to binge on Big Bang Theory, European art house flicks, and video games. The same is true for Wi-Fi and personal power outlets.

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Honey, I Shrunk the World: How Materials Scientists Made the Globe Smaller

September 15, 2014
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Thinner, Lighter, Stiffer, Stronger: Next Gen Jet Engine Fan Blades Use Carbon Super Material

September 03, 2014
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GE’s Jet Engine Unit Brings Home $36 Billion in New Business at Farnborough Airshow

July 16, 2014

The Middle East is quickly becoming a new global aviation hub with big plans for the future. Nowhere are those plans better visible than at giant airshows like the one in Farnborough, UK, which finished this week. Emirates and Qatar Airlines, for example, finalized multi-billion orders for Boeing’s next-generation 777X long-haul planes, building on a momentum from last year’s Dubai airshow.

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World's First Plant to Print Jet Engine Nozzles in Mass Production

July 15, 2014
GE is taking mass production to a lofty new level. The company is pulling 3D printing out of the lab and installing it at the heart of the world’s first factory for printing jet engine fuel nozzles in Auburn, Ala.
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The HondaJet Just Got New Engines. Is the Flying Car Next?

May 26, 2014
GE Honda Aero Engines, a joint venture between GE Aviation and Japan’s Honda, just shipped the first set of production jet engines developed for a sleek new business jet called the HondaJet.
The engine is now in full production at GE Aviation’s plant in Lynn, Mass, according to Terry Sharp, the joint-venture’s president. Sharp said that “significant planning activity” was underway to move manufacturing to a new Honda Aero factory in Burlington, N.C., before the end of the year.
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The Next Generation: Which Jet Engines Lift GE’s Mojo?

April 07, 2014

In December 2011, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner powered by two GEnx jet engines set a pair of world records for the fastest eastbound trip around the world and longest flight for an aircraft in its class.

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