As a young girl, Roxana Leonte remembers feeling awestruck by the white lines of the contrails that airplanes left in the sky as they soared high above her home in Romania. She marveled at everything from the physics that allowed airplanes to take flight to what it would feel like to be a passenger or even the pilot on a jumbo jet.

GE90 engine has surpassed 100 million flight hours and nearly 55.7 billion miles flown. A deeper dive into the history of the bellwether engine that's reinvented the logistics, economics, and aesthetics of jet travel.

The GE90 engine has surpassed 100 million flight hours. In November, the aircraft engine will mark 25 years in service. Under the wings of the Boeing 777 family, the GE90 engine reached the 100-million-hour mark averaging more than 4 million hours a year.

How fast can Etihad Airways change a GE90 engine? They can do it Pretty Darn Quick (PDQ) and set another record.

Certification testing is underway on GE Aviation’s latest engine in development—the GE9X that will power Boeing’s 777X aircraft. Combine the technologies of the GE9X engine and you have an engine that will be 5% better in fuel efficiency versus any engine in its class. With almost 700 engines on order, the GE9X engine has quickly gained a following among airline customers around the world. For the GE Aviation team, we can’t wait to see the first GE9X engine tucked under wing of our flying testbed later this year.

GE Aviation facility uses data and analytics to reduce machine downtime to less than 1%.

Get your cameras ready to celebrate the GE90’s 2,000 engine delivery!