How GE Aerospace Engineers Used Science to Solve an Engine Durability Problem with CFM LEAP Engines

In the fifth trip in a series of 10 for our 100 Flights program celebrating GE Aviation’s 100-year anniversary, a GE team of 14 assembled for a three-day, four-city tour of Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, the GE Celma engine overhaul facility in Petrópolis, the new engine test cell in Três Rios, and ultimately the headquarters of Embraer in São José dos Campos, near the metropolis of São Paulo.

Preparing for the first test of the world’s largest engine—GE9X—requires big equipment and investments at GE Aviation Peebles Ohio facility.

The new $100 million combustor test cell, A20, is doling out record temperatures and pressure to push the limit on GE’s combustor technology.