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Successful Training at the Customer Technical Education Center (CTEC) starts with Paul Bryan
3D, 2D simulations and Maintenance Minute videos are just a few of the ways GE Aviation successfully trains at the Customer Technical Education Center (CTEC).
GE9X Sets Guinness World Record As World’s Most Powerful Jet Engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ettd4xvutl0 GE’s latest jet engine, the GE9X, keeps piling on the superlatives. Already the world’s largest commercial jet engine, it is also now the most powerful one, according to Guinness World Records™. The records keeper announced...
Aviation Eye-Candy: The Sights Behind the Signings
If you don’t stop and admire the scenery every once in a while, you might miss some of the most spectacular sights in aviation. Here are a few our favorite sights from this year’s Paris Air Show.
How the Record-Setting Paris Air Show Impacts Aviation Manufacturing in Asheville
Orders placed at Paris Air Show include commercial engines with parts to be made at GE Aviation’s two Asheville manufacturing facilities.
On The Shoulders Of Giants: Qatar Airways Agrees To Long-Term Order Of GE Jet Engines And Services
Qatar Airways and GE sign GEnx and GE9X engines and services agreements in $5 billion deal.
Back to the Future: Seeing the Paris Air Show Through Fresh Eyes
Avio Aero engineers Andrea Piazza and Stefano Mirone reminisce about their experience at the Paris Air Show, which they won through GE Aviation’s 100th anniversary celebration.
Military Appreciation: GE Aviation Sends 3,549 Care Packages to Troops on Independence Day
This year marked GE Aviation’s 12th Annual Troop Care Package Drive, with 21,644 pounds of donations pouring in from employees at GE Aviation and other GE businesses nationwide.
GE Aviation’s Quick Six with XLP Savannah Frazier
In our next installment of Quick Six, we sit down with Savannah Frazier, who is in the XLP program (Accelerated Leadership Program) in Supply Chain, located in Evendale, Ohio.
Cold War Child: How the GE J47 Became the World’s Most Produced Jet Engine
The J47 incorporated compressor and turbine sections for higher-pressure ratios, as well as lightweight components needed to produce 5,000 pounds of thrust. in 1948, J47 engines were installed in a North American F-86 Sabre, which set a world speed record of 670.9 miles per hour.
A LEAP Across the Pond: This New York-Paris Jet Route Is Plush And Fast
France’s La Compagnie is operating a business-class-only daily flight between Newark Liberty Airport and Orly, powered by ultra-efficient CFM LEAP engines, which provide double-digit gains in fuel efficiency and allow the plane fly further on a single tank on fuel while also lowering carbon emissions, oxides of nitrogen emissions and noise.
GE Aviation’s Quick Six with Sourcing Commercial Leader Jack Cohen
Six questions with Jack Cohen, who recently joined GE Aviation Sourcing in Evendale, Ohio.
Au revoir, Paris! Celebrating 100 years in style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj0wgfF5bbY La Compagnie’s new Airbus A321neo jet isn’t a large plane as passenger jets go — it fits 76 reclining seats in its all-business class configuration — but when it arrived at the Paris Air Show on Tuesday, it heralded big...
How LEAP’s ‘Summer of Love’ made the 2019 Paris Air Show shine
At this week’s Paris Air Show, CFM International tallied a string of stunning sales contracts for its best-selling LEAP turbofan engine. In three days, the GE Aviation and Safran joint company announced orders and commitments for more than 1,150 LEAP engines, along...
That’s A Wrap! GE Aviation Sets $55 Billion Order Record at the Paris Air Show
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.
Jet Engines are not the only GE Tech Powering Boeing’s Latest Wide-Body Passenger Jet
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 Well-Positioned for Military Portfolio Growth
GE Aviation is transitioning roughly 1,000 engineers to support Armed Forces programs.
CF6 Production Still Strong 50 Years After Paris Air Show Debut
Fifty years ago, GE launched the CF6 jet engine at the Paris Air Show, a workhorse of the commercial aviation industry.
Leonardo Next-Generation Civil Tiltrotor Demonstrator Powered by GE
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...
GE9X: You Have Questions, Our Chief Test Pilot Has Answers
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.
News Updates from the Paris Air Show
The latest deals and announcements from the Paris Air Show 2019.