GE Aerospace's Quick Six with Sophie Davies
In our next instalment of GE Aerospace's Quick Six, we sat down with Sophie Davies who is a leader in the Military Officer Leadership Program.
Digital Backbone for the Military’s Next-Gen Aircraft Enables Ease for Upgrades
The U.S. Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) is a tiltrotor aircraft that takes off and lands vertically like a helicopter and flies like an airplane. Several key components of FLRAA will be supplied by GE Aerospace, including the powerful network, called the Digital Backbone, that acts as the nerve center for all the data traffic on board.
Flip the Script: GEnx Program Caps Off Big Year With LATAM Airlines Deal
Nearly 20 years ago, GE Aerospace lost out in a competition to power part of LATAM Airlines’ passenger air fleet. But what goes around sometimes eventually does come around. Case in point: This month, LATAM announced it is ordering five additional Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, all of which it plans to switch from competitor engines to GEnx-1B engines, making Chile-based LATAM the first airline in Latin America to utilize the GEnx.
Five Trends that will Shape Aerospace in 2024
2023 marked another dynamic year for aerospace. New challenges appeared, others stuck around and some thankfully faded.
What changes could 2024 bring? We spoke with five GE Aerospace experts on the trends they are watching next year and the impact those trends will have on the global aerospace system.
From the Flight Line to GE Aerospace: How Emily Wannarka's Career Continued to Soar after Serving in the Military
Meet Defense & Systems Product Support Engineer, Emily Wannarka. Discover how her impressive military family lineage and passion for aviation helped her career take flight after her time in the US Air Force.
Bright Minds, Bright Future: Three GE Aerospace Engineers Return from One Young World Forum Eager to Share What They’ve Learned
The GE Aerospace and Avio Aero engineers return from One Young World Forum eager to share what they’ve learned during the massive event.
Robinson Zapata: Finding Meaning in His Work
Working in the commercial parts supply industry was just the beginning for Robinson Zapata. As a 17-year GE Aerospace employee and member of the U.S. Army Reserves, he found his true calling and fell in love with the precision and dedication required in the aviation industry. What really motivates him are the people he works with.
The T700: The Power Behind the Multi-Mission Helicopter Transforming Firefighting and Beyond
Another year, another record-breaking global fire season. This summer, international teams joined forces to attack major wildfires by air and land in Greece, Canada, and Hawaii, among other far-flung locales. In California, where more than 25% of the population lives in areas at very high or extremely high risk of wildfire, a slower season was a welcome reprieve at a time when the state sees an average of more than 1.57 million acres destroyed by fire each year.
But firefighting teams in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Ventura County, along with state wildfire crews at Cal Fire, are feeling better prepared to tackle future conflagrations, medical evacuations, and search-and-rescue operations these days because of one particular advantage: the Firehawk, a modified Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter powered by GE Aerospace’s T700 engines
‘A Permanent Mark on Climate Action’: GE Showcases Its Latest Energy Innovations at COP28
Building on that 131-year legacy, GE’s future independent public companies, GE Vernova and GE Aerospace, will be discussing and demonstrating advanced technologies this week at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP28, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Amid technical breakthroughs and new public-private partnerships, it’s clearer than ever that technology will be the key to solving climate change, accelerating decarbonization, and transitioning to cleaner energy.
3 Takeaways from POLITICO Defense Summit on Maintaining U.S. Air Superiority
GE Aerospace partnered with POLITICO on its Defense Summit this month to highlight the company's history, scale and expertise -- and to highlight a major milestone in the company's efforts to put new capabilities in the hands of the warfighter thanks to the XA100 adaptive engine.