Talkin’ ‘bout next gen: GE Aviation awarded $1B contract for future military propulsion
The United States Air Force has awarded GE Aviation a $1B contract to continue maturing its three-stream adaptive cycle engine via the Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP), paving the way for use on the US Military’s most advanced combat aircraft.
CF34-powered ARJ21 enters service in China
The first commercial flight of China's Chengdu Airlines' CF34-10A-powered ARJ21-700 took place today, flying from Chengdu to Shanghai. The ARJ21-700 is the first indigenous Chinese regional jet developed and manufactured by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC).
We'll always have Casablanca: TrueChoice Overhaul team hits the road to hear operators’ unique needs
What do engine operators want from an overhaul provider? A team from Marketing, Sales, Mature Fleet and Customer Technical Programs joined forces to hear straight from African operators at a GE Aviation-hosted Engine Services Customer Symposium held in Casablanca, Morocco.
From pistachios to propulsion: How a would-be pistachio farmer found his way to building jet engines
Vice President of Engineering, Mohammad Ehteshami has helped build the world’s largest and most powerful jet engines during his 32-year career at GE. But as a boy in a tiny desert village in Iran, odds were he would grow up farming pistachios. That is, until his mother intervened.