On April 30, the second Boeing 777X airplane successfully completed its test flight, cruising 2 hours and 58 minutes over Washington State and landing at Boeing Field in Seattle. On its wings: the most powerful jet engine ever built—the GE9X.

Lee Dillon oversees 66 engineers in GE Aviation's Edison Engineering Leadership Program, which has funneled a cohort of top engineering talent to all of GE’s core businesses over the years. She calls it "the best job ever."

Gianluca De Donno has worked as an Avio Aero field service representative at the Italian Air Force base in Pisa for 10 years. "By now, I know, and am known by, almost everyone at the air base. I feel like one of them because they make me feel like that. It is really like one big family."

GE Aviation has been awarded $707 million for F110 engine production but the U.S. Air Force. Over the last two months, GE Aviation has inked more than $1.2 billion in contracts to produce engines and hardware to support the U.S. military and international customers.

GE Aviation is offering a new digital fuel dashboard at no cost to airline customers using software enabled by Microsoft Azure. It can help airlines make better decisions in crucial areas like saving fuel and parking planes.

On March 30, 40 assembly technicians from GE Aviation's site in Lafayette, Ind., deployed to GE Healthcare's production facility in Madison, Wis., to help assemble ventilators. Over the course of four weeks, they will help build thousands of the life-saving medical machines.

In the last month alone, GE Aviation has been awarded more than $476 million in contracts to produce military engines and hardware to support the U.S. military and international customers. 

GE Aviation’s Engineering Design Center in Warsaw has teamed up with the Łukasiewicz Research Network to produce thousands of visors, masks and other PPE for local hospitals to fight the spread of COVID-19.

GE Aviation's Customer Technical Education Center in Cincinnati has put a bevy of "Maintenance Minute" videos and remote learning courses online to help fill the gap for mechanics unable to visit GE Aviation training centers due to the pandemic.

GE Aviation’s Digital Group is combining their data and analytics expertise with the scale and secure capabilities of Microsoft’s Azure to offer the new digital fuel dashboard at no cost to airline customers using GE's event measurement system.