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Cooling Your Jets: Hypersonic Flight Is Coming And These Technologies Will...
Thomas Edison was famously fond of failures, using them as guideposts to new solutions. But the GE founder wasn’t the only person in the company espousing this lemons-to-lemonade philosophy. Take...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Swiss scientists are helping harness the excess heat generated by subway systems into usable energy, researchers in Washington are testing out technology for proto-telepathic communication, and a set...
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Innovation Nation: The Government And Industry Team Up To Invent The Future...
Energy will be in the air in Denver this week when 2,000 of the nation’s brightest science and engineering minds, high-powered executives and politicians descend on the city to take on America’s most...
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Working Hard, Playing Hard: This Olympic Rugby Hopeful Shows Grit On And Off...
Late last January, Amanda Berta got up at the ungodly hour of 5 a.m., threw on her sweats, gobbled down four eggs and a chocolate protein shake, and dashed out into the dark, frigid Chicago streets. As...
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On The Shoulders Of Giants: Qatar Airways Agrees To Long-Term Order Of GE Jet...
When David Joyce, GE Aviation president and CEO, unveiled his company’s latest jet engine at the Paris Air Show last month, he called it “the biggest, most advanced wide-body engine in the world.” He...
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History In The Making: How GE Turned America From Laggard To Leader In Jet...
When Frank Whittle’s seaplane landed at LaGuardia’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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It’s Official: Guinness World Records Certifies GE9X As The World’s Most...
GE’s latest jet engine, the GE9X, keeps piling on the superlatives. Already the world’s largest commercial jet engine, it is also now the most powerful one, according to Guinness World Records.The...
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Success In The Skies: Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl Launches Test Rocket
Just a week after the Fourth of July, a rocket launched high above California’s Mojave Desert. This was no mere tardy display of patriotism; the rocket’s launching team had been preparing for this...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists removed HIV from the genomes of mice, used gene editing to help the retina restructure itself, and developed an “EpiPen for spinal cord injuries.” These are big times for bold medical...
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Heavy Duty: Leased Cargo Jets Give Amazon Prime New Wings
It’s hard to remember what the online shopping experience was like before Amazon started its Prime shipping service in 2005. The immensely popular service, which gives customers two-day shipping for a...
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The Cypress Branches Out: Large New Winds Farms In Turkey And Poland Order GE...
Last week, the Turkish renewable-energy operator Borusan EnBW Enerji announced an order for 27 Cypress wind turbines— GE Renewable Energy’s largest land-based wind turbine. The first one set down roots...
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A Solar Star Is Born: GE And Blackrock Form New Solar Powerhouse
GE and BlackRock, the giant investment firm with trillions in assets under management, have agreed to build a new solar industry powerhouse. Called Distributed Solar Development, the company will...
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For The Record: The Fastest, Farthest And Most Powerful GE Gear And Technology
If you read these pages frequently, you know that GE engineers have designed some mind-blowing machines, like the GE9X jet engine whose front end is larger than the diameter of a Boeing 737, or the...
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The GE Brief – July 18, 2019
July 18, 2019 GOING SOLARIn 2012, Erik Schiemann launched GE’s solar business as a nimble startup that would design and build renewable on-site energy solutions for the company’s customers. Today GE...
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Heaven Can’t Wait: GE Engineer Led NASA During Historic Moon Landing
Fifty years ago this month, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were sitting inside an aluminum can roughly the size and shape of a New York City water tower, zipping...
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The Test Pilot: Neil Armstrong And GE’s Elliot See Were First Civilian...
In the early fall of 1962, Neil Armstrong climbed into a car with GE test pilot Elliot See Jr. at what is now called the Armstrong Flight Research Facility in Edwards, California. They set out for...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
The movements of a tiny 3D-printed robot can be controlled by vibration, a large drone will look for signs of life on Saturn’s moon Titan, and researchers designed a “Trojan horse” drug delivery system...
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Mad Props: This Digital Tech Makes Flying A Turboprop As Simple As Riding A...
When Audrey Hepburn went careening with Gregory Peck on a scooter through the cobbled streets of Rome in “Roman Holiday,” the Vespa she drove was simple enough that she could just jump on, twist the...
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The Woodstock For Pilots: 700,000 People Flock To Oshkosh As The World’s...
Looking back at his illustrious career in aviation, Paul Poberezny said that he “didn’t think there has been a single day since I was five years old when I didn’t say the word ‘airplane.’”Poberezny,...
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Electric Sky: GE Catalyst 1MW Engine Lets Hybrid Planes Take Flight
Hybrid planes are moving closer to takeoff. At the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh airshow Tuesday, GE Aviation said it signed a deal with XTI Aircraft Company to use GE’s Catalyst engine as the core of a new...
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