With the amount of work growing at Unison Industries in Dayton for LEAP engines, new internship and apprenticeship programs were started to train more welders.

On October 1, 1942, a Bell XP-59A Airacomet powered by two GE I-A turbojet engines roared down a remote runway at Muroc Dry Lake in California and slowly lifted off the ground. From modest beginnings in the California desert, the United States had entered The Jet Age.

Harnessing the power cleaner, greener tech with Avio Aero and GE Aviation Europe at the Clean Sky 2 conference in Brussels

“Give me just a minute, gotta fire off a couple more emails.”

Ceramic matrix composites (CMC) technology is a centerpiece of GE’s jet propulsion strategy for the 21st century.

Two years ago, the Catalyst engine did not exist. Now it is entering the next stretch of testing and certification before it begins flying later this year.

Suzy Wang, Senior Operations Manager, at GE Aviation in Lynn, Massachusetts, discusses women in STEM and the 2019 STEP Ahead Award.

Maria Rogers, Senior HR Business Partner for GE Aviation, will talk about the adversities she faced throughout her life and how that’s shaped who she is today.

Rick Kennedy (pictured on right) is a retiree, former Media Relations leader and author of GE Aviation: 100 Years of Reimagining Flight, to be released in June.

Additive manufacturing enabled engineers to design and “grow” a bracket for the GEnx, reducing production waste by 90 percent.