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CFM LEAP expected to hit breakeven by 2025

GE Aviation and Safran expect the LEAP turbofan engine to reach breakeven margins in 2025. There will be a three-percent margin impact this year and in 2023 as the production transits from the CFM56 to the LEAP, but the numbers are looking good beyond 2023. CFM LEAP...

GE’s Affinity: A new Supersonic Engine for Business Aviation

The aviation industry hasn’t seen commercial supersonic transportation since the Concorde, that entered service in the 1970s. One of the major factors in that equation is the lack of a fuel-efficient and reliable engine to support supersonic flight. GE just introduced...

TREMORS IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN: A precursor of “the big one?”

The performance of the aviation supply chain has not been as robust as it should be in 2018, with airplanes on the ground with no engines in Toulouse, Renton, and even Charleston being the symptoms of some deeper issues. Those deeper issues impact the industry’s...

GE Aviation Briefing at NBAA 2018

Brad Mottier of GE Aviation briefed the media on the Catalyst Turboprop, Passport business jet engine, and announced the Affinity engine program for supersonic aircraft at NBAA 2018. A video of that briefing follows: https://youtu.be/PBefm2uJMlo

Emirates, the A380 and the next engine selection

Oct 10, 2018 | Airbus, Emirates, Engine Alliance, Etihad, General Electric, Rolls-Royce

Emirates is currently negotiating with Rolls-Royce for its next batch of A380s. Bloomberg had a report yesterday on...

Updates on the GE Catalyst at Oshkosh 2018

Jul 24, 2018 | ATP, GE Catalyst, General Electric, premium

GE's Catalyst is now in testing, with promising results. Paul Corkery, General Manager for Advanced Turboprop Engines...

Premium 2018.24 FARNBOROUGH PREVIEW

Jul 3, 2018 | Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM International, Embraer, Farnborough Air Show, General Electric, Pratt & Whitney, premium, Rolls-Royce

Quite often, aircraft manufacturers will debut new technology or product announcements at the Paris or Farnborough Air...

GE’s additive journey

Jan 8, 2018 | CFM International, Down the Supply Chain, General Electric, Materials, MRO, Predictive Analytics, Turboprops

Near the year end, we had an opportunity to visit GE Aviation’s Additive Technology Center in Cincinnati. It was an...

First ATP Engine Run

Dec 28, 2017 | ATP, Cessna, General Aviation, General Electric, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Textron Aviation, Turboprops

Just before Christmas, on December 22, GE Aviation undertook the first run of its new ATP engine at its Prague...

Moravian Aerospace Cluster wants to be link between East and West

Dec 14, 2017 | Aero Cluster, Aerospace, General Electric, Moravia, Turboprops

Deep in the heart of Europe, lays the historical region of Moravia, together with Bohemia one of the constituent parts...

Turboprop review through 3Q17

Dec 6, 2017 | ATR, Bombardier, British Aerospace, Dornier, Embraer, Fokker, General Electric, SAAB, Turboprops, UEC

Turboprops have had a good year in 2017. We take a look at the market and provide some insights to be found in the...

Premium #250 – Flaking CMCs and Bending Shafts

Nov 7, 2017 | CFM International, General Electric, Pratt & Whitney, premium, Rolls-Royce, Safran

New technology engines currently being introduced into service for narrow-body and wide-body aircraft haven’t had a...

GE Aviation at NBAA 2017

Oct 10, 2017 | ATP, General Electric

https://youtu.be/xOirlW-RmF0

Premium #247 – NBAA 2017 Media Day

Oct 10, 2017 | ATP, Bombardier, Embraer, GE, General Electric, Pratt & Whitney Canada, premium, Safran

We are attending NBAA's media day, where most new announcements are made. This year it has been a quiet event, with...

SAFRAN reinvents the open rotor

Oct 3, 2017 | General Electric, Pratt & Whitney, Safran

Even if we have seen this before many years ago from GE and P&W, it is great to see this technology make a...

GE retires P&W powered testbed

Aug 21, 2017 | Boeing, Boeing 747, General Electric, PanAm, Pratt & Whitney

Probably the oldest 747 aircraft in service may be retiring. GE Aviation’s original 747 Flying Test Bed is headed to...

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