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.
Testing... Testing... 1, 2, 3: The U.S.'s First Jet Engine Began Formal Testing 77 Years Ago
GE’s (and America’s) first jet engine began formal testing 77 years ago in Lynn, Mass.
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.
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.
Turning the Skies Green: Cleaner, Greener Tech at the Clean Sky 2 Conference in Brussels
Harnessing the power cleaner, greener tech with Avio Aero and GE Aviation Europe at the Clean Sky 2 conference in Brussels