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GE9X: First Engine to Test in Peebles, Ohio
More than seven months ahead of a typical program schedule, GE fired the first GE9X engine on its testing grounds in Peebles, Ohio to ensure ample time to validate and mature its design before entry into service on the new Boeing 777X aircraft. See why the GE9X will deliver from day one at geaviation.com/GE9X. Learn how…
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A Passport to Fly
GE’s Passport turbofan for Bombardier’s Global 7000 business jet achieved FAA certification on April 29, 2016. Watch Passport’s arduous journey ahead of its first installation on Bombardier’s flight test vehicle.
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GE’s little engines performing big in 2016
Whether it’s business and general aviation turbofans (Passport FAA certified; HF120 service entry) or turboprops (first H Series electronic engine propeller control flight tests; first Advanced Turboprop component tests), it’s been a monumentally large year for GE Aviation’s smallest engines.
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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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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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GE Passport Engine