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GE Aviation and its joint venture company CFM International, a 50/50 joint company between GE and Safran Aircraft Engines, announced a record setting $55 billion in jet engines, services, avionics and digital offerings at the Paris Air Show this week.
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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. The plane will be also packed with fancy avionics — touch-screen displays in the cockpit...
GE Aviation is transitioning roughly 1,000 engineers to support Armed Forces programs.
Fifty years ago, GE launched the CF6 jet engine at the Paris Air Show, a workhorse of the commercial aviation industry.
Emergency services or medical evacuation helicopters face challenges from flying in and out of urban and densely populated areas. Often, they must follow unique flight paths and confined takeoff and landing zones for rescue missions, getting to and from as fast as...
GE Aviation Chief Test Pilot Jon Ohman answers the most frequently asked questions we received on social media about the GE9X and the Flying Test Bed.
The latest deals and announcements from the Paris Air Show 2019.
People think the Honda Business Jet started out as a design on a napkin. In fact, it was scribbled on the back of a calendar. “I still have my original sketch of our business jet,” says Michimasa Fujino, the aeronautical engineer, inventor, and founding president and...
In our next installment of Quick Six, we spoke with Tiffany Liang, Materials Leader for the LEAP-1A and -1B Core Assembly at GE Aviation’s Lafayette, Indiana, engine assembly facility.
Collaboration with universities and innovative technologies are part of both the GE and Avio Aero DNA, just like this story with University of Cincinnati.
Stop for a moment and think of all the emails you send and receive in a day. Now multiply that by 49,000 employees. Sobering, huh? That’s just one segment of the GE Aviation corporate universe that Deneen DeFiore monitors on a daily basis. As the Chief Information...
GE Aviation is celebrating its 100th year in business. All year, we’ll be taking a look back at some of the engines and technology featured in our advertisements and the stories behind them. To read more stories about GE’s 100...
Meet the employees assembling the historic CFM56 engine, which crossed new milestones in April for production and flight hours.
GE’s (and America’s) first jet engine began formal testing 77 years ago in Lynn, Mass.
We sat down with Katie Schafer, Quality Engineer for Asheville’s Rotating Parts shop and recent winner of the Women Up’s Rising Star Award for her involvement in STEM education in the community.
Drinks in a cozy, elegant cocktail lounge have preceded plenty of marriage proposals. But rarely has such a session led to the creation of the most prolific jet propulsion company in aviation history. And yet, it happened—in April 1970 at the Ritz-Carlton lounge in...
The road to aeronautical innovation has been paved, in many respects, by motorcycle mechanics. Or at least devotees of two-wheel vehicular propulsion. And they make great aviation technicians.
The crew of the USS Cincinnati recently got an up close look at the engines powering their missions, the LM2500.
How the GE1 “Building Block” demonstrator engine program launched GE Aviation into the future.
The GE Aviation Propulsion Hall of Fame welcomed its newest round of inductees in May 2019.
Meet Carlos Duenas, a lead mechanic at GE Aviation Flight Test Operations, located in Victorville, California.