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  GE marks 50 years powering jet aircraft   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
GE will mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Evendale complex, now the headquarters for its $10 billion jet engine business, with a picnic Friday for its 8,500 area employees.
The huge GE90 engine, developed at Evendale in the early 1990s for new wide-body jets such as the Boeing 777, was the first jet engine to top 110,000 pounds of takeoff thrust.
The CFM56 engines have become the most successful commercial aircraft engines in the world, in part because they are the exclusive power plants on the newest versions of the Boeing 737 series aircraft.
www.enquirer.com /editions/1998/10/11/bus_ge11.html   (1659 words)

  
 General Electric
A new agreement between GE and the Saudi Arabia Electric Company will help the region meet its increasing infrastructure and energy demands.
GE installs its first high efficiency 7H gas turbine in Southern California.
GE elects Dr. Susan Hockfield to its board of directors.
www.ge.com   (98 words)

  
 General Electric Engines
In 1903, GE succeeded in installing the world's largest steam turbine generator in Chicago to generate electric power to replace a reciprocating engine that was ten times its size.
By mid-1941, GE turbos were in mass production in four states and were seeing combat service with Allied Air Forces under the Lend-Lease program.
Moss also led GE in developing its early gas turbine engine, which in America of the late 1930s, was still experimental and confined to the laboratory.
www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/GE/Aero11.htm   (1653 words)

  
 Plane Nation » GE Aircraft Engines
The GEnx engine is the world’s only jet engine with both a front fan case and fan blades made of composites, which provide for greater engine durability, weight reduction and lower operating costs.
GE estimates a redesigned engine for the next iteration of the A350 would cost up to one billion dollars
He said GE “would love to be on the plane,” but he had to weigh that desire against the large economic investment in a new powerplant.
www.planenation.com /category/ge-aircraft-engines   (1401 words)

  
 Howstuffworks "How Car Engines Work"
Diesel engines are one form and gas turbine engines are another.
The potato cannon uses the basic principle behind any reciprocating internal combustion engine: If you put a tiny amount of high-energy fuel (like gasoline) in a small, enclosed space and ignite it, an incredible amount of energy is released in the form of expanding gas.
In an engine the linear motion of the pistons is converted into rotational motion by the crankshaft.
www.howstuffworks.com /engine.htm   (1126 words)

  
 Ex-Im :: News Release :: Ex-Im Bank Finances Seven GE Aircraft Engines to Emirates
Ex-Im Bank is providing a loan guarantee of approximately $130 million to support the export of seven GE 90-115B aircraft engines from General Electric to Emirates, an airline based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The GE 90-115 B engines will be used to power Boeing 777 extended range aircraft, which provide Emirates with extra capacity for passengers and cargo.
The first of the engines was delivered to Emirates in December 2004, and the remaining engines are scheduled to be delivered in six-month intervals.
www.exim.gov /pressrelease.cfm/593CE984-F9BC-4B48-EAA4A3334FB4DE76   (342 words)

  
 Industry Spotlight: Aerospace Part One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
GE Aircraft Engines is one of the major players in the aerospace field.
The Development Assembly and Testing Department is responsible for engine evaluation, which includes the assembly, instrumentation, and testing of aircraft and commercial gas turbines.
Bruce McPhee of GE Aircraft Engines used Canvas to edit and enhance this diagram of a rear shaft for a low pressure turbine (click for a more detailed view).
www.deneba.com /COMMUNITY/industry/aerospaceindustry/default.html   (450 words)

  
 GE Transportation, Aircraft Engines
GE Transportation, Aircraft Engines is the world's leading producer of large and small jet engines for commercial and military aircraft.
GE's technological excellence, supported by continuing investments in research and development, has been the foundation of growth and helps ensure quality products that exceed customer requirements.
Closer to home, GE and Honda have formed a joint venture to bring to market a new class of small, durable, and efficient jet engines that could enable 6-8 passenger business jet convenience at traditional commercial aviation prices.
www.iata.org /events/agm/2005/sponsors/geae.htm?wbc_purpose=basic   (193 words)

  
 GE Energy - Press Release
GE Aero Energy of Houston, Texas is designing the engine mounting system, package enclosure, control system software and auxiliary support systems.
GE Power Systems (www.gepower.com) is one of the world’s leading suppliers of power generation technology, energy services and management systems with 2002 revenues of nearly $23 billion.
GE Aircraft Engines, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE www.ge.com), is the world’s leading manufacturer of jet engines for civil and military aircraft.
www.gepower.com /about/press/en/2003_press/120903h.htm   (1143 words)

  
 GE engines to power Royal Air Force of Oman aircraft | GE Aircraft Engines (GEAC)
GE Aircraft Engines has won a contract to supply GE F110 fighter engines to the Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO).
GE Aircraft Engines, a division of General Electric Company, is the world's leading manufacturer of jet engines for military and civil aircraft, including engines produced by CFM International, a 50/50 joint venture of Snecma Moteurs of France and GE.
GE Aircraft Engines also manufactures gas turbines, derived from its highly successful jet engine programmes, for marine and industrial applications.
www.ameinfo.com /5576.html   (862 words)

  
 GE Careers India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Recently, GE Lighting was involved in the Tribute of Light Memorial for the Twin Towers, NY (2 intense beams of light that sore into the sky in the shape of the destroyed towers).
GE Power Controls India manufactures and markets a wide range of Electrical Protection and distribution systems, which can be used in homes, commercial buildings, factories, and utilities.
GE Fanuc Systems (a joint venture of GE and Fanuc / Japan) is a global enterprise dedicated to helping companies around the world better manage their systems and processes through industrial automation solutions.
www.gecareers.com /GECAREERS/jsp/india/workingatge/gebusinesses_pop.jsp   (4671 words)

  
 JIM McNERNEY, PRESIDENT, GE AIRCRAFT ENGINES
So, the president of GE Aircraft Engines has put in place a formidable strategy to leave everyone else in the dust as he aims to outpace market growth by a factor of two to three.
Layered on top of that is GE's Six Sigma quality initiative, and an aggressive strategy in e-commerce that is expected to result in internal efficiencies "of hundreds of millions of dollars" over the next few years.
McNerney pointed out that GE is also strategically well placed on both the Airbus A3XX and the proposed growth Boeing 747X with the GP7000 engine, being developed in a joint venture with Pratt and Whitney.
www.aviationnow.com /shownews/00farn3/newsmk13.htm   (701 words)

  
 GE-Aviation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GE-Aviation is part of GE Infrastructure, itself a major part of the conglomerate General Electric, one of the world's largest corporations.
Crucial parts for these engines are crafted in secondary GEAE facilities, such as those in Bromont, Quebec, Hooksett, New Hampshire, Madisonville, Kentucky, and Rutland, Vermont, where the engine blades and vanes are manufactured.
Snecma has significant interests in the GE Aviation civil engine range - having an equal share of CFM International which was established thirty years ago and major stake holdings in other engine families.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/GE_Aircraft_Engines   (625 words)

  
 EBiz at GE Aircraft Engines
Leading the pack are Boeing and GE, with the engine manufacturer perhaps out in front.
The GE system is so advanced-and up and running-it could set the industry standard, he pointed out.
GE isn't going to participate in an "exchange" if it means providing competitors with its technology.
www.aviationnow.com /shownews/00farn4/ebiz03.htm   (861 words)

  
 GE
GE Aircraft Engines (GEAE) is a world leader in the design, development, and manufacture of aircraft engines for all sizes of aircraft, from the small turboprop commuter planes to the largest jumbo jets.
Through the development of its CF34, CFM56, CF6, and GE90 engine families, GEAE has gained a wealth of engine data that has enabled the company to aggressively develop and validate innovative noise-reduction technology for commercial aircraft engines.
Leveraging the intellectual resources of GE's Corporate Research and Development Staff (GE-CRD), GEAE has developed the basic physical understanding of the noise sources in aircraft engines and the two have teamed up develop novel concepts for reducing component noise.
www.oai.org /aeroacoustics/GE.html   (362 words)

  
 International Center for Automotive Research at Clemson University
For example, computing the airflow through a single jet engine component could take as many as 35 million equations, with the entire set of equations needing to be solved thousands of times to arrive at the final solution.
GE is the world's leading manufacturer of military and commercial aircraft jet engines, as well as power-generating turbines.
GE has designated Clemson a research stronghold in its University Strategic Alliance, which features dynamic university-industry collaborations and an innovative university research funding mechanism that could become a national model.
www.clemson.edu /autoresearch/cfdlab.htm   (1222 words)

  
 Aircraft Engines
Centurion Engines- As manufacturer of the CENTURION 1.7, we offer a state-of-the-art, fuel efficient jet fuel piston aircraft engine to General Aviation flight schools, charter companys and clubs.
Compact Radial Engines- Manufactures and distributes radial, boxer and inline aircraft engines for experimental, PPG and ultralight aircraft.
Rolls Royce Northamerica- Rolls-Royce civil aero engines are designed and built in North America, the UK and Germany, with parts coming from a worldwide manufacturing and supply base.
avisupser.dgrsolutions.com /engines.html   (1503 words)

  
 GE Aircraft Engines selects MULTI® development tools to build the world's most powerful jet aircraft engine
The engines produced by GE Aircraft Engines lead the commercial aviation industry in their respective thrust classes for reliability, maintainability, and affordability.
The GE90-115B, a member of the GE90 family of engines, utilizes high-flow swept fan blades to enhance thrust and reduce fuel burn.
GE Aircraft Engines (GEAE), a division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), is the world's leading manufacturer of jet engines for civil and military aircraft, including engines produced by CFM International, a 50/50 joint company of Snecma of France and GE.
www.ghs.com /news/220408g.html   (669 words)

  
 GE sells engines to Embraer
GE Aircraft said it now has contracts with all three major regional jet manufacturers — Bombardier in Canada, Fairchild Aerospace in the United States and Embraer of Brazil.
CF34-powered regional jets are turning into one of GE Aircraft's fastest-growing product lines thanks to consumer demand and the increased operating capacity they give regional airlines, the company said.
GE Aircraft also said Wednesday that it has signed an agreement to form an engine-maintenance joint venture at Warsaw, Poland's, airport with LOT Polish Airlines and GE's Engine Services unit.
www.enquirer.com /editions/1999/06/17/fin_ge_sells_engines_to.html   (253 words)

  
 GE Aircraft Engines introduces Inspection Technologies for Gulf aerospace industry | GE Aircraft Engines (GEAC)
GE Aircraft Engines to upgrade technology of Kuwait Airways GE90 engines in USD11 million deal
GE has completed strategic projects in various hi-tech industrial sectors, defence-related contracts and major infrastructure developments.
GE (http://www.ge.com) is a diversified technology, manufacturing and services company based on more than a century of achievement and innovation.
www.ameinfo.com /1182.html   (869 words)

  
 SPSS - Customers
GE Aircraft Engines is the world's leading manufacturer of jet engines for military and civil aircraft.
GE Aircraft Engines uses NetGenesis® from SPSS Inc. to monitor activity on its Web site, www.geae.com, and on company intranets.
For this class, GE Aircraft Engines requested that their own company's data be used, rather than the sample data typically used in such a class.
www.spss.com /success/template_view.cfm?Story_ID=139   (632 words)

  
 US101 Team Selects GE Aircraft Engines to Power US101 Helicopter for Marine One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Recognized for the highest reliability and performance of any engine in its class, CT7/T700 engines power 27 types of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft with more than 130 customers in more than 50 countries.
The T700/CT7 engine family currently powers the EH101 platform, a variant of the US101, flown by the governments of Canada and Italy, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police.
Other variants of the engine family have been proven in the harshest of environments, including Operation Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom.
www.teamus101.com /news7.cfm   (536 words)

  
 GE Businesses in Saudi Arabia
GE serves the electrical distribution and power control market through a country wide network of independent distributors.
GE Industrial Systems is a leading supplier of product and service solutions for residential, commercial, industrial, institutional and utility applications.
GE appointed its first major distributor in Saudi Arabia in 1948 and since that time has been present in the market through its distributors.
www.sesco-ge.com /home.nsf/pages/GEBusiness   (646 words)

  
 GE Aircraft Engines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Development of a Cost Management System for the manufacturing process to manage and track time and material costs involved in building aircraft engines was our goal.
These requirements were then expanded through the BSD process to deliver a completed set of design specifications.
The design specifications were then used as the basis of a 900 program turn-key application developed by Accelerated Solutions, Inc. for GE Aircraft Engines.
www.acceleratedsolutions.com /Default.aspx?tabid=75   (173 words)

  
 NEMA - GE Appoints Three Company Officers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Daley was organization and staffing manager for GE Infrastructure, Energy in 1999 and senior human resources manager for Industrial Controls Systems in 1997, which is now part of GE Consumer and Industrial.
Mottier received a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago in 1989, a master’s of science degree in engineering in 1981, and a bachelor’s degree in engineering in 1979 from the University of Illinois.
Before that, Murray was general manager, business operations and integration and finance manager, GE Infrastructure, Aircraft Engines.
www.nema.org /media/ind/20050819b.cfm   (326 words)

  
 GE Aircraft Engines Selected for High Fidelity System Simulation Work   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
GE Aircraft Engines was selected to work with NASA Glenn's Ultra-Efficient Engine Technology (UEET) Program on a 150 passenger subsonic aircraft core engine simulation.
This will be accomplished by integrating NASA Glenn and GE Aircraft Engine component codes together using the Numerical Propulsion System Simulation code coupling developer's kit.
In addition to providing a validation database for future NASA engine technology development efforts, a direct contribution to UEET and related DoD/NASA efforts, this is an opportunity to work on the integration of multiple components and tools involving NASA Glenn and GE Aircraft Engines.
www.ueet.nasa.gov /toi/viewtoi.php?id=61   (148 words)

  
 GE Honda Aero Engines
Business aviation has a new champion with the founding of a joint venture that brings together two of the biggest names in performance engines.
The HF120 is the first in a family of engines designed to deliver large commercial engine performance and durability to business aviation.
GE Honda Aero Engines LLC is a 50/50 joint company owned by The General Electric Company and Honda Aero, Inc.
www.gehonda.com   (85 words)

  
 GE Aircraft Engines information and related industry information from Hoover's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Once a sky-baby next to Pratt and Whitney and Rolls-Royce, GE Aircraft Engines (GEAE) now rules the runway as the world's largest producer of engines for commercial and military planes.
This division of General Electric's Infrastructure segment makes jet, turboprop, and turboshaft engines that power aircraft from cargo, executive, and passenger jets to bombers and helicopters.
There are 20 competitors for GE Aircraft Engines; see more.
www.hoovers.com /co/capsule/6/0,2163,57976,00.html   (467 words)

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