GE Aviation’s GE90 engine celebrates 25 years of service today, and GE expects the technological pioneer engine to continue powering aircraft for decades to come. On November 17, 1995, the GE90 entered service on the Boeing 777, powering a British Airways flight...
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GE’s priority has always been to develop and mature breakthrough technologies that reduce jet engine weight, reduce harmful emissions, and lower noise.
With the new Wellness Trace app, travelers can see how airport employees are working to carry out safety protocols. At the Albany airport, where GE launched the system this week, QR stickers are posted in more than 45 locations, allowing travelers to see when an area was last cleaned. Employees upload information into the app each time they clean a corresponding surface.
Steve Maynard, Randy Johnson, and Rob Liner all work for GE Aviation’s marine gas turbine business, which provides reliable turbine power aboard 631 naval ships in 39 navies around the world. But these three don’t just know each other from work—for a short period in the early 1990s, all three served aboard the former U.S. Navy Spruance-class destroyer, USS Fletcher (DD-992), which was powered by four GE LM2500 gas turbines.
In a spectacular sunset flight along the Florida panhandle on November 4, the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, better known as the Blue Angels, performed their final flight in their GE F404-powered F/A-18 C/D Hornets. The Blue Angels have flown F/A-18s, known...
In August, NASA took delivery of the first F414-GE-100 engine for its X-59 QueSST plane, a one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft that will fly faster than Mach 1 and higher than most high-performance aircraft at 55,000 feet.
The addition makes a total of 24 CH-53K production aircraft now under contract. GE Aviation’s Lynn plant continues to deliver T408 production engines to the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR).
GE Avation’s Avionics business has won a trio of recent accolades for its first-rate customer support.
A quieter turboprop? Scientists from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and GE Aviation measure the noise emitted by an aircraft on the ground and on the aircraft synchronously.
The GE Aviation Lafayette team assembles its first Passport engine for the Bombardier Global 7500 aircraft.
Along with 24/7 customer support, GE Aviation teams in Cincinnati and Shanghai monitor engine data to help predict and avoid issues.
Thanks to the new agreement signed with Leonardo, Avio Aero Service will take care of the Italian Air Force’s fleet of HH101 helicopters.
The U.S. Army continues every day to rely on its rotorcraft fleet which includes main staples like the Apache, Black Hawk and Chinook. However, modernization efforts continue by the branch under its Future Vertica Lift (FVL) initiative, designed to "rapidly develop...
GE Aviation’s Lafayette manufacturing facility celebrates its 5 year anniversary.
Unlike any aircraft anyone had ever seen, Lockheed Martin’s F-117A Nighthawk is one of the lasting images many people recall from the Gulf War. Its mere existence was the subject of widespread speculation, only to be officially confirmed by the Pentagon in 1988 when...
Some of the fascinating, technical challenges presented to engineers in the GE9X program over the last few years.
To celebrate the GE9X engine certification, Steve Ross can add another accomplishment to his unique 37-year GE Aviation career—working back-to-back from start to finish on the two newest widebody engine development programs.
The GE9X engine has been certified by U.S. aviation authorities, a key milestone in its journey to power the new twin-engine Boeing 777X family. Ten GE9X engines have been delivered for Boeing’s four 777X flight test airplanes.
This first flight is the culmination of a five-year effort under between the Army, Boeing and GE Aviation to evaluate the feasibility and benefits of higher-power engines.
Five GE Aviation and Additive employees brings to life GE’s new tagline, Building a world that works. Join them as they take you inside GE from around the globe.
On the 80th anniversary of Battle of Britain Day, GE Aviation salutes the many involved in the battle that gave us the freedom we enjoy today.
