aviation systems

Rescue helicopters: Medics aboard – and in the engine

The transport medicine crews at Ornge, one of the largest and sophisticated medical transport operations in North America, work day and night to save the lives of the critically injured and ill, transporting them from accident sites and between hospitals. Beginning this fall, as they watch over the health of [...]

FAA picks GE to demo fuel, emissions & noise tech

In the aviation world, the project is known as “CLEEN” — and it’s one of those apt acronyms that really does fit the bill. A joint industry and Federal Aviation Administration program, it stands for “Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions and Noise” and its goal is to accelerate the development of [...]

Jump into GE’s integrated cockpit at Paris Air Show

Did you know that every 2.7 seconds a GE flight management system is taking off somewhere in the world? Now, GE has pushed this technology even further and developed a new, optimized descent Flight Management System (FMS) — which is GE Aviation’s latest ecomagination product and is at the heart [...]

GE and NASA to test open rotor jet engine systems

Following several months refurbishing a special NASA test rig, GE Aviation and NASA this summer will begin a wind-tunnel test program to evaluate counter-rotating fan-blade systems for so-called “open rotor” jet engine designs.

Double vision: The image on the left is a basic rendering of an open rotor engine. On the [...]