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Napoleon’s Faraway Island Exile is Finally Getting an Airport. A Complex...
By Alaynah BoydThe only way to reach Saint Helena, a rugged volcanic island in the middle of the South Atlantic slightly larger than Manhattan, is by catching a five-day ride on the Royal Mail Ship St....
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Goodnight Light Bulb: LEDs are Sending the Bulb’s Classic Shape the Way of...
By GE Reports staffThe iconic shape of the light bulb has become the universal symbol for bright ideas ever since Thomas Edison patented the first one 135 years ago. But nothing lasts...
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The Ultimate Coders: Revolutionary New Tool Can Rewrite DNA
By Michael Keller At the most fundamental level, we are all code. The typical human body is an assembly of some 37 trillion cells, and each holds all the information needed to make a complete human...
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The Sunken Frontier: These Machines Will Map the Bottom of the Sea
By GE Reports staff A dozen people have walked on the moon and nearly 4,000 have stood on top of Mt. Everest. But only three humans have ventured the other way to Challenger Deep, the seabed’s deepest...
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How Does a Wind Turbine Work? With GE’s New ecoROTR, Better than Ever
By Tomas Kellner The hillsides around Tehachapi, a brown and blustery town on the edge of California’s Mojave Desert, are bristling with a forest of wind turbines of all makes and sizes.But the tallest...
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GE Sells Another Banking Unit to Sharpen Focus on Industrial Businesses
By David LurieGE said today it would sell its U.S. Sponsor Finance business for approximately $12 billion to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The deal marks another big milestone on GE’s path to...
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Set Your Blades to Vibrate: Titanic Forces are Shaking Things Up in this GE Lab
By Adam Tucker It takes a tiny electric motor to vibrate all 4.55 ounces of an iPhone 6. But the engineers who are vibrating 80-pound gas turbine compressor blades to test their strength at GE’s...
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Human Protein Atlas Charts the Road to Personalized Medicine
By Ki Mae Heussner Over a decade ago, the Human Genome Project gave us the first blueprint of our genetic code, opening the door to a future where medical interventions could be personalized for each...
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Latest Planes Descend on Paris as World’s Largest Air Show Takes Off
By GE Reports staff The huge Paris Air Show starts at Le Bourget, just outside the French capital, this weekend. The world’s largest and longest-running aerospace trade gathering typically brings...
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GE-Powered Dreamliner Steals Paris Air Show with a Stunning Getaway
By GE Reports staff The Paris Air Show starts this weekend and Boeing is bringing a brand new Dreamliner aircraft powered by a pair of GEnx engines. In preparation for the show, the plane just...
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No Room For Error: Pilot and Innovator Steve Fulton Talks about the “Alarm...
By Tomas KellnerA pilot landing in Queenstown, the popular mountain resort in New Zealand, recently stuck a GoPro camera in his cockpit and recorded the last thrilling minutes of his flight. The...
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Come Dust, Ice, Hail Stone and High-G Force: What it Takes for the LEAP Jet...
By Tomas Kellner The sand storms in the Gobi Desert in Central Asia are some of the most frightening events nature can cook up, sending giant tan clouds of fine dust as far as Beijing. While locals...
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Take a Close Look at Boeing’s Dreamliner YouTube Sensation at the Paris Air Show
By Tomas Kellner When Boeing released its viral video of the Vietnam Airlines Dreamliner performing stunning inflight maneuvers over Washington State on Thursday, the plane, which is powered by a pair...
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Dreamliner Dazzles Paris
By Tomas KellnerMillions of viewers have watched on YouTube the skills of Boeing test pilots Randy Neville and Van Chaney at the controls of Vietnam Airlines’ new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner powered by a...
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Mother Knows Best: How Mohammad Ehteshami Traveled from a Pistachio Farm to...
By Tomas Kellner Mohammad Ehteshami has helped build the world’s largest and most powerful jet engines during his 31-year career at GE. But as a boy in a tiny desert village in Iran, odds were he would...
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Oops, the Dreamliner Did it Again
By Tomas Kellner Five GEnx engines together generate the same amount of thrust as the Space Shuttle’s rocket engine. The GIF above shows what that power looks like on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane,...
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The World’s Most Advanced Passenger Jets Circle Over Paris
By Tomas Kellner The Boeing Dreamliner 787-9 and Airbus A350 XWB are currently perhaps the two most advanced passenger planes in the world. They are both at the Paris Air Show, and they both carry GE...
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The World’s Most Powerful Jet Engine is Getting a Bigger Brother
By Tomas Kellner Building something new usually takes a lot of brains, effort and time. When GE decided to put blades made from untested carbon fiber composites inside a brand new jet engine and...
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GE and Air Force Unveil the Ultimate Flying Machine
By Matt BenvieThe first jet engine used by the U.S. military was the result of a top secret project that took place in GE labs. Seven decades later, the Air Force is working with GE Aviation on the...
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An Exclusive Look Inside the World’s Largest Passenger Jet
By Tomas Kellner It was hard to miss a brand new Qatar Airlines Airbus A380 at the Paris Air Show this week. The world’s largest passenger plane, which has been certified to seat as many as 853...
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