GE Aviation's Quick Six with Materials Leader Tiffany Liang
In our next installment of Quick Six, we spoke with Tiffany Liang, Materials Leader for the LEAP-1A and -1B Core Assembly at GE Aviation’s Lafayette, Indiana, engine assembly facility.
1 Billion Flight Hours: “World-class experience” builds 15,000th CFM56-7B engine
Meet the employees assembling the historic CFM56 engine, which crossed new milestones in April for production and flight hours.
GE Aviation's Quick Six with Quality Engineer Katie Schafer
We sat down with Katie Schafer, Quality Engineer for Asheville’s Rotating Parts shop and recent winner of the Women Up’s Rising Star Award for her involvement in STEM education in the community.
'Bowled Over With A Feather': When Safran Aircraft Engines Went Courting for GE
Drinks in a cozy, elegant cocktail lounge have preceded plenty of marriage proposals. But rarely has such a session led to the creation of the most prolific jet propulsion com
Zen and the Art of Aviation Maintenance: Motorcycle Mechanics Make for Great Jet Engine Techs
The road to aeronautical innovation has been paved, in many respects, by motorcycle mechanics. Or at least devotees of two-wheel vehicular propulsion. And they make great aviation technicians.
GE1 “Building Block” Engine: Greatest GE Jet Engine Ever?
How the GE1 “Building Block” demonstrator engine program launched GE Aviation into the future.
History-Makers: GE Aviation Propulsion Hall of Fame Inducts Eight New Members
The GE Aviation Propulsion Hall of Fame welcomed its newest round of inductees in May 2019.
GE Aviation's Quick Six With Mechanic Carlos Duenas
Meet Carlos Duenas, a lead mechanic at GE Aviation Flight Test Operations, located in Victorville, California.
Training Skills: New Internship and Apprenticeship Programs Build Welder Pipeline
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.
GE Lifts the U.S. Into the Jet Age
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.