General Electric Reveals Next-Gen 777X Engine Plan

General Electric will start tests of an advanced compressor in 2012 aimed at a GE90 successor program dubbed the GE9X. The plan emerges as GE sees the first glimmers of potential competition to its dominant position on the Boeing 777 in very large engines. Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney are both...

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