The 787 Engine Competition
Looking at the numbers through October 2016, we have the following table. The -8 accounts for 66% of the 480 delivered 787s. Last week the 500th 787 was seen in Seattle, being made ready for Air France. GE has a…
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An example of the disruption Additive Manufacturing drives
GE has been at the forefront of additive manufacturing for a while. Though not alone in seeing the benfits from this technology, GE is touting an interesting example of what this means. They explain that their new ATP has 855…
A Lufthansa CFM56 achieves 100,000 flight hours
Lufthansa and CFM International are celebrating the achievement of 100,000 flight hours by one of the airline’s CFM56-5C engines more than 20 years after Lufthansa took delivery of its first Airbus A340-300. The airline was the launch customer for the…
NBAA – Pratt & Whitney Media Lunch
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GE Aviation at NBAA
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Cessna bets on the Silvercrest
Today at the 2016 NBAA, Textron’s Cessna division announced their new aircraft, the Hemisphere. “For the first time in more than 20 years, the large-cabin segment will see a clean-sheet design aircraft with the Citation Hemisphere,” said Scott Ernest, Textron…