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History In The Making: How GE Turned America From Laggard To Leader In Jet...
When Frank Whittle’s sea plane landed in at La Guardia’s Marine Air Terminal in New York City in June 1942, the pioneering jet engine designer found himself in a country that prided itself on its...
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Quack Fix: This Tech Will Help California’s Gas Turbines Ride Out The ‘Duck...
The rapid growth of California’s solar industry has changed the Golden State’s grid from a camel into a duck — and no, we have not been sitting out too long in the midday sun. California’s baseload...
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Supersize It: Ted Ingling Started Out As Car Mechanic. Now He Is Now Building...
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.Instead of replacing brake pads...
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The Next Generation: This Team Of Young Engineers Helped Bring 3D Printing...
Stefka Petkova enjoys building things. It’s a passion she’s had since she was a small child when her dad, an electrician who liked to work on cars, kept the door to his workshop open. “I was exposed...
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A Flight Of Fancy: This New York-Paris Jet Route Is Plush And Fast. It’s Also...
Speed and comfort are high on the list of business travelers, which is why France’s La Compagnie is operating a business-class-only daily flight between Newark Liberty Airport and Orly, two airports...
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CFM Kicks Off Paris Air Show With $20 Billion Deal, Largest Ever
Speaking at a press conference before the Paris Air Show on Saturday morning, Gaël Méheust, president and CEO of the jet engine maker CFM International, told a room full of aviation reporters that its...
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A $23 Billion Deal With AirAsia Extends CFM’s Record Run At Paris Air Show
On Monday afternoon at the Paris Air Show, jet engine maker CFM International said it signed the largest single jet engine order in history to supply fast-growing Indian carrier IndiGo with its LEAP-1A...
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Analyze This: How A Billion Points Of Data Will Light The Path Toward...
In 1927, pilot Charles Lindbergh wowed onlookers when he landed at Le Bourget Airport upon completing the first nonstop transatlantic flight in history. More than 90 years later, spectacles still...
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Game of Planes: Microsoft and GE Are Applying Insights From Video Games To...
Video game makers don’t just sell games. They use technology to develop an ongoing relationship with players and then “monetize” those relationships. For instance, a fan who is reluctant to purchase a...
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Tour De Force: GE’s Giant GE9X Jet Engine Explained In Pictures
The 2019 Paris Air Show has been one for the records books for GE and CFM International, a 50-50 joint-venture between GE and Safran Aircraft Engines. As of Tuesday, the companies have won deals valued...
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Feeling Supersonic: Jets Traveling At 1,150 MPH Get A Boost From Regulators
The glamorous age of the Concorde may soon be returning, if you can afford it. A few companies are developing small supersonic business jets that will be able to travel as fast as 1,150 miles per hour....
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GE, CFM Wrap Paris Air Show With Record $55 Billion In New Deals
La Compagnie’s new Airbus A321neo jet isn’t a large plane as passenger jets go — it fits 76 reclining seats in its all-business class configuration — but when it arrived at the Paris Air Show on...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
The future’s going to be great, according to some of the coolest scientific advances this week: Robot fish will have their own circulatory systems, we’ll wear gravity-defying boots inspired by the...
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The Network Effect: The Internet Of Electricity Is Coming and This Little...
It’s small, aluminum and barely larger than a hardcover book. But just like the dial-up modem a few decades ago, the device is helping revolutionize electrical power in ways we haven’t seen...
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Find Me If You Can: The Great Scavenger Hunt For GE Technology At The Paris...
On Sept. 1, 1930, a red Breguet 19 Super Bidon biplane took off from Le Bourget, Paris’ then-main airport, and landed in aviation history 37 hours and 12 minutes later at New York’s Curtiss Field and...
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How Do You Test The World’s Largest Jet Engine? GE’s Chief Test Pilot Has The...
The GE9X has only one fan, but that doesn’t stop it from enjoying some serious star power. When GE brought the world’s largest jet engine to the Paris Air Show earlier this month, visitors to its...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Gut bacteria that increase the performance of elite athletes, color-changing scorpion venom that’s also toxic to drug-resistant infection, beer labels that appear three-dimensional but are printed with...
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That’s Hot: This Lung-Inspired 3D-Printed Part For Cooling CO2 Could Take...
When Charles Parsons invented the steam turbine in 1884, it was a monumental advance. More than a century later, engineers are still relying on steam to operate the turbines that generate much of the...
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Road Show: The Art of Motorcycle Racer Maintenance
Motorcycle racing is one of the fastest sports on earth — and one of the most physically brutal. Racers straddle technologically advanced bikes that pack 250-horsepower engines and gun from zero to 200...
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A Lightbulb Moment: Clearer Breast Imaging Means Faster Diagnoses
Like most of the patients at Lake Medical Imaging (LMI) in central Florida, Kathi Schue is no stranger to mammograms. With imaging offices in the 5.5-square-mile retirement community known as The...
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