The F-35 Stealth Fighter Is Crammed With Electronics. It’s Up to GE Aerospace to Keep Them Working
The F-35 Lightning II, manufactured by Lockheed Martin, can reach supersonic speeds and may be the world’s stealthiest fighter plane. For pilots, its advanced electronic systems are what really set it apart. Designed to replace most of the United States’ aging fighter fleet, the F-35 comes equipped with a constellation of sensors and avionics that assemble a remarkably detailed picture of conditions in and around the aircraft. GE Aerospace supplies eight of those systems, including electrical power management, aircraft memory, remote interface units for the fuselage and missiles, and engine-monitoring technology. This spring, GE Aerospace signed a four-year performance-based logistics (PBL) contract with Lockheed Martin to maintain and repair this equipment on F-35 aircraft around the world.
The Future of Flight: GE Aerospace Closes Week at Paris Air Show with Big Deals on GEnx, LEAP, and Avionics
Anyone who visited the GE Aerospace chalet at the Paris Air Show, on the grounds of Le Bourget Airport, came away with three distinct impressions: The market for engines is growing, lean is working, and new technologies are on the rise. The GE Aerospace team also inked a number of contracts, announcing growth in its order book across jet engines, services, avionics, and digital offerings. The deals include more than 100 GEnx-1B engines, as well as 70 CFM LEAP-1A engines, 80 CFM LEAP-1B engines, and 37 CF34-8E engines, along with multiple service contracts.
The X-Factor: 22,000 Pounds Of Thrust Just Got Quieter
In August, NASA took delivery of the first F414-GE-100 engine for its X-59 QueSST plane, a one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft that will fly faster than Mach 1 and higher than most high-performance aircraft at 55,000 feet.
Top-Notch: Avionics Team Receives Three Customer Awards
GE Avation's Avionics business has won a trio of recent accolades for its first-rate customer support.
Dowty Propellers Pays Tribute to the Past, Looks Forward to the Future at New Manufacturing Facility
After a fire destroyed the original facility in 2015, Dowty Propellers has inaugurated a new 183,000-sq. ft. building near Gloucester at Brockworth's Gloucester Business Park. The new facility in Brockworth, England provides a modern operation for the company's development, manufacture and support of state-of-the-art propeller systems with all-composite blades.
Iconic goes supersonic!
NASA is paving the way to making quiet supersonic passenger air travel over land possible with its new supersonic X-plane, and the
Stingray gets airborne
GE's F404 engine has been selected by Lockheed Martin to power their bid for the MQ-25A Stingray contract, a competition to create an unmanned tanker designed to deliver robust refueling capability to support combat strike fighters and extend the range of US Navy aircraft carriers.
Comeback Kid: The Next Sound-Barrier-Busting Passenger Jet Could Be Quietly Supersonic
The last Concorde landed in 2003, but NASA and a team of aerospace companies that includes Lockheed Martin and GE Aviation are not finished with supersonic passenger flight.
Sundown for the Viking S-3
During its 35 years of service to the fleet, the Lockheed S-3 Viking was affectionately known as “the Hoover” because of the distinctive vacuum like sound of its engines.