Dubai-based Emirates became the first airline to operate an Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger airliner, on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in one engine. The aircraft, which is powered by four Engine Alliance GP7200 engines, used 100% SAF in one of its four engines, another milestone in the industry’s growing momentum to bring standardization, certification, and adoption of 100% SAF closer to reality.

In the 1970s, GE Aerospace partnered with NASA to test the Quiet, Clean, Short-Haul Experimental Engine (QCSEE). This demonstrator engine helped launch technologies found in our engines today including composite materials, as well as other innovations being furthered developed with the current CFM RISE program.

In the annals of engine production, the GE90 holds a special attraction for both the aviation world and the people at GE Aerospace who’ve worked on the engine program. Today GE Aerospace announced that it has delivered its 3,000th GE90 production engine.

In 1941, the United States government asked GE to develop the first American jet engine. Allied defense, industrial collaboration, technological advancement, and economic growth were at stake. GE delivered the very next year. Now, more than 80 years later, GE Aerospace finds itself at the cusp of another era-defining moment. With climate change impacting communities and economies around the world, the aerospace industry is in the midst of what feels to some like a seismic shift.

Kyle Varble, the Tenth Family Member to Work at GE, Is Still Calling His Father (the Fifth) for Advice.

The 2023 Paris Airshow is coming up very soon, and evaluation engineer, Alisha Davis-Kent, is going to represent GE Aerospace and give us a behind the scenes look at what happens during the airshow. As an evaluation engineer, Davis-Kent has a front row seat to GE’s specialized jet engine testing. Her role is to help coordinate development tests of commercial and military engines, gathering the engineering data that help certify jet engines and further the capabilities of flight.

Sometimes it does run in the family. After taking inspiration from her engineer sister and grandfather who had a love for cars, Pam Boehm, chief consulting engineer of commercial dynamics, took after her family and was propelled into an engineering career at GE Aerospace.

The mechanics work for GE Aerospace’s On Wing Support (OWS) team just outside Cincinnati, one of eight such facilities across the globe — from London to Dubai to Seoul to Shanghai — that provide maintenance and repair capabilities for customers. At the heart of what they do: attention to safety and quality of service with the capability for rapid deployment. Depending on the urgency and level of repair needed, some team members will work on engines in the shop (off-wing) while others are in the field, servicing engines still installed on aircraft (on-wing).

Glenn Culbertson retired recently from GE Aerospace, leaving behind a legacy that fortified a culture of safety for his colleagues. An airplane accident in 1989 shaped his work and he spent the next four decades relentlessly focused on protecting the flying public.

Meet identical twins Laura Schreibeis and Lisa Kitko have called GE Aerospace their career home. Lisa's daughter Nicole Kitko recently joined the company in 2022 as an engineer as well. Though all three women work in different facets of the business, it only adds to their knowledge, allowing each of them the opportunity to learn about myriad aspects of the company and how they intertwine.