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GE Aviation’s Advanced Turboprop Engine
Get up close and personal with GE Aviation’s new Advanced Turboprop engine. The launch of GE Aviation’s Advanced Turboprop engine represents the culmination of five years of market research and design efforts. This all-new engine brings advanced, proven GE engine technologies into small engines, and is expected to revolutionize the Business & General Aviation turboprop…
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GE Aviation and the Ceramic Matrix Composite Revolution
GE Aviation is creating adjacent factories in Huntsville, Alabama, to mass-produce silicon carbide (SiC) materials used to manufacture ceramic matrix composite components (CMCs) for jet engines and land-based gas turbines. For more than 20 years, scientists at GE’s Global Research Centers and GE’s industrial businesses have worked to develop CMCs. In recent years, GE Aviation…
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Starting the First Full GE9X Engine
Ground testing is underway on the first full GE9X engine at GE Aviation’s Peebles (Ohio) Test Operation.
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First Full GE9X Engine Moves to Test
The first full GE9X engine, which will power the Boeing 777X aircraft, travels to the test stand at GE Aviation’s Peebles (Ohio) Test Operation.
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Boeing 747 Jet Engine (Rolls Royce RB211) Run at the Back Yard
RB211-22B L1011 engine ground run started by bleed air from two APUs.
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Engine failure… Can an airplane still fly?
KLM Captain Jeroen Visser and First Officer Eric Hoogerheijde explain how to cope with an engine failure during a simulator training.
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Qantas transports a fifth engine on a Boeing 747
A behind the scenes look at Qantas as it transports a fifth Rolls Royce engine on a Boeing 747 from Sydney to Perth and on to Johannesburg.
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Virgin Galactic NewtonThree Engine Hotfire
Virgin Galactic completed its latest successful test firing of the NewtonThree main stage engine, which ran for more than 20 seconds. This is the liquid rocket propulsion system that will power Virgin Galactic’s small satellite launch vehicle, LauncherOne.
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GE Passport Engine
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SWISS Technical Division – Aircraft Engines
The team spirit in our international team is a motivating force – and the key to our success. An aircraft engine lasts for several years if properly serviced and maintained. With 13,640 horsepower (Airbus A321), it is 100 times more powerful than a car engine. After about 25,000 flight hours (or eight years on average),…
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Airbus A320neo takes to the skies with LEAP- 1A engines
The first A320neo equipped with CFM International LEAP-1A engines completed its maiden flight on 19 May 2015, with the aircraft taking off and landing in Toulouse, France. This video clip includes comments and insights from Airbus and CFM International officials, as well as members of the flight crew.
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Engine Wash by Lufthansa Technik
After hundreds of hours of flight time, the engines of the aircraft also require cleaning. There is a very special program at Lufthansa Technik. Nach hunderten von Flugstunden bedürfen auch die Triebwerke der Flugzeuge einer Reinigung. Dafür gibt es bei der Lufthansa Technik ein ganz spezielles Programm.