Aviation

With Boeing delivering the first GEnx-powered, new 747-8 to customer Cargolux yesterday, GE Reports compiled all of the facts and figures behind the fastest-selling, high-thrust jet engine in the company’s history. The GEnx will also power Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner, with the first GEnx-powered 787 being delivered later this year. [...]

GE is now accepting applications for 480 hourly manufacturing jobs at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky. The application can be found here and can only be submitted online, starting at 6:30 a.m. this Wednesday, September 28th and ending at 4:00 p.m. on September 30th. While the final mix of positions [...]

In a rainy ceremony today at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, Boeing officially delivered the first 787 Dreamliner to Japanese carrier ANA. GE Aviation Systems was a key supplier for the aircraft, providing major parts of the plane’s central nervous system, including the common core system (CCS) that is the [...]

Submissions of air and space craft designs for GE’s MakerBot to produce have been pouring in on GE’s Facebook page over the last few weeks. Check out the video below to see the winning spaceships:

Printing non-toy planes is closer than you might think. This week’s Txchnologist, the online magazine sponsored [...]

GE Aviation is wrapping up an exciting week in Oshkosh, Wisconsin at the annual EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, where airplanes of all shapes and sizes, and the people who love them, have gathered to celebrate aviation. GE Aviation’s Oshkosh HQ has been thrumming with activity all week. This July Friday, GE [...]

The Txchnologist, the GE-sponsored online magazine, wraps up its aviation month with a week devoted to space travel, including this far-out feature on the E-Plane:
Confronted with substantially the same environmental mandates that prompted the auto industry to develop electric cars, the aviation industry has begun gearing up to do the [...]

Next week, Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin will temporarily become the busiest airport on the planet, as 10,000 aircraft—from the vintage Pitcairn Mailwing that carried mail in the U.S. in the 1920s, to Boeing’s GEnx-powered 787 Dreamliner—land and over half a million aviation enthusiasts descend for EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.
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