Contributor Kelly Williams is lead test engineer for the GE Aviation Test Facility in Peebles,
Ohio.
Sometimes you literally have to move mountains to do your job right, and in this case I’m glad we did.
Welcome to Site 7 at GE’s engine test facility in Peebles, Ohio, about one hour from Cincinnati.
This is the future test home of the GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team’s F136 engine that will help revolutionize the world’s next generation of fighter aircraft, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II — also known as the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
I’ve been the test focal point for the F136 for four years and can’t tell you how excited I am to work on one of the most unique propulsion concepts we have ever developed: a “one-size fits all” engine for the diverse missions of Air Force, Marine and Naval aircraft for the United States and eight JSF partner countries.
Before the engine can truly “take off,” it must pass a series of tests at Peebles that will exceed conditions far more demanding than those encountered in actual service. And we’re ready to test!
Site 7 is backed by enough concrete for a foot-thick, two-lane, four-mile road, providing a sturdy environment that can withstand up to 40,000 pounds of engine thrust and generate the most highly-calibrated performance data imaginable. So we are ready to test for all conditions to make the best engine for the job.
Last year the team at Peebles completed its first FI36 testing at the new site and now the engine has reached a new milestone with the testing of its first production-configuration of the engine at our Evandale, Ohio, facility – which is a month ahead of contract schedule.
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If the F136 jet engine got such kind of "Product Test" in the modern facility, why the "Sub-prime Product" did not subjected to the same treatment by testing its reliability, affordability, legality, sustainability befor "take-off" to its customers and end up with the financial crisis and credit crunch…
Salute to these professional engineers with their integrity, intelligent, and unyielding discipline to save the nation…
They differentiate the Technology world from the Financial Wall with the ethics and fundamentals values of a great corporation with 125 plus years
You can watch a sample of GE might in action in this youtube video that shows the testing of World’s Most Powerful Commercial Jet Engine, The Guinness Book Records winner, GE90-115B engine.
jeff–please correct the faults of Welch.Ihave faith in
good Finneytownite.Best of success.
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Tested GE – Lynn engines at Peebles from early 70′s to late 80′s. Turbo props, Hi Energy Xray (HEX), icing, hail ingestion, brought a Lockheed Electra wing modified at GE – Mojave to site 3 for T407 testing…………have always said the PTO guys are the best. Work hard and have some fun.
This was when you had to sleep upstairs in the old guard building on army bunks and eat beenie weenie out of a can!!!
How do I apply for a job there?
You got some really neat stuff up there. Thanks a lot.
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Do you allow visitors? My class is studying flight. We are in Pikeon, Ohio.