GEnx engine
Flip the Script: GEnx Program Caps Off Big Year With LATAM Airlines Deal
Nearly 20 years ago, GE Aerospace lost out in a competition to power part of LATAM Airlines’ passenger air fleet. But what goes around sometimes eventually does come around. Case in point: This month, LATAM announced it is ordering five additional Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, all of which it plans to switch from competitor engines to GEnx-1B engines, making Chile-based LATAM the first airline in Latin America to utilize the GEnx.
It’s the kind of news you like to hear anytime, but for GEnx it amounts to icing on the cake.
Jet engines
“It All Started With QCSEE”: A Revolutionary Engine Finally Takes the Spotlight
The dawn of the jet age gave birth to the concept of the global village. Once jet engines made the jump from military fighters to civilian planes in the 1950s, commercial passenger service could carry people farther and faster than ever before. Fares dropped, ticket sales quadrupled, and by 1972 almost half of all Americans had traveled by air.
Going Wide: As Air Traffic Picks Up, GEnx Signs Deals at Paris Air Show to Power 787 Fleets
If GE Aerospace’s recent deal-signing activity at the Paris Air Show is any indication, the market for wide-body commercial jets appears to be getting some of its mojo back after years of sluggish growth exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sharp Focus: GE’s New Sustainability Report Underscores Its Mission to Make the World More Energy-Efficient
Over the next 60 seconds, GE’s energy technology, from gas and wind turbines to hydroelectric, will generate enough electricity to supply millions of households for an hour. In that same time, around 30 aircraft equipped with jet engine technology made by GE or one of its partners will take to the skies — one every two seconds.
COVID-19
The Long Way Home: Powered By GEnx Engines, Nonstop Tahiti-To-Paris Flight Sets A Commercial Aviation Record
World records are often done to assert primacy — but sometimes they’re inspired by necessity. The latter was the case with the longest nonstop flight with paying passengers, completed in March by Air Tahiti Nui. With the outbreak of COVID-19, French nationals on the South Pacific island of Tahiti found themselves unable to return home due to international travel bans.
Aerospace
Larger Than Life: Ted Ingling Started Out As Car Mechanic. Now He Is Building The World’s Largest Jet Engine
When Ted Ingling was growing up in a small town in Michigan, he wanted to be a car mechanic. But the plan didn’t work out, and the world might be a better place for it.
Lean Management
Getting Better All The Time: How Lean Management Helped GE’s Jet Engine Plant In Mississippi Take Off
Perched on the banks of the Little Tallahatchie River, Batesville, Mississippi has always been connected to movement. The town, just an hour south of Memphis, Tennessee, spent its early days as a Southern steamboat port. In the 1850s, local farmer James W. Bates sold a plot of land near the river to the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad for a new train depot.
Aerospace
On The Shoulders Of Giants: Qatar Airways Agrees To Long-Term Order Of GE Jet Engines And Services
Aerospace
They Might As Well Jump: Dreamliner Contract Has GE’s Team Leaping — Off Auckland's Sky Tower
It started as a lark. GE Aviation’s David Kelly and his colleague Rachel Wagner were working up a bid to supply engines for a fleet of new Boeing Dreamliners three years ago. Since the client, Air New Zealand, had used Rolls-Royce engines for the past 15 years, the whole venture seemed rather quixotic. Success seemed so remote, in fact, that Kelly, GE Aviation’s sales director for Air New Zealand, agreed to jump off the Sky Tower in Auckland if they won the deal.
Aerospace
Lord Of The Wings: Air New Zealand Orders A New Dreamliner Fleet, Powered By GE Jet Engines
Adventure-seeking bungee jumpers, “Lord of the Rings” fans and hunters of colossal squid have another reason to check out the remote Pacific Island nation of New Zealand: Air New Zealand is expanding its fleet of long-distance jets that can fly nonstop to this faraway wonderland.