Celebrating LEAP year!
LEAP Year may come around every four years, but advanced technology like the LEAP engine only comes around once in a generation!
Final assembly underway on GE Aviation's first GE9X engine
Final assembly is well underway on the first full GE9X engine that will test in the first half of 2016, four years before the GE9X engine enters service on a Boeing 777X aircraft.
CFM LEAP-1B takes flight powering Boeing 737 MAX
On Friday, January 29, the advanced LEAP-1B engine successfully completed a two-hour, 47- minute first flight powering the new Boeing [NYSE: BA] 737 MAX.
TIME magazine puts spotlight on GE Aviation Additive Manufacturing
As TIME magazine’s technology reporter Victor Luckerson compiled candidates for the early January edition highlighting “innovators in science and technology who will help shape the world” in 2016, he remembered the exotic manufacturing underway at GE Aviation.
First GE9X Demonstrator Core testing launches
Testing is underway on the first demonstration core for the GE9X engine that will power the Boeing 777X aircraft.
Introducing the lab of the future
On Tuesday November 3, Polonia Aero announced the official opening of one of the world’s largest and most advanced cold flow turbine test laboratories.
GE Aviation is fired up about CMCs!
Ceramic matrix composites (CMC) are a critical pathway on GE Aviation’s technology roadmap...