GE Aviation’s win of a US$1 billion contract to develop a sixth-generation variable-cycle fighter engine is seen as a crucial next step in the future of its $3.7 billion military engines business.

It’s been a unique and remarkable decade for aerospace, says GE Aviation president and CEO David Joyce. Unprecedented investment and transformational advances in technology, materials and manufacturing have resulted in new aircraft, new engines, record backlogs and a new supply chain.

GE Aviation has unveiled one of the first digital customer solutions built on its Predix software platform, an application developed through a collaboration with Flydubai.

GE and the U.S. Air Force are conducting advanced compressor and fan rig testing that could lead to a follow-on development and test regime of full three-stream, adaptive combat engines.

Benefit: The Service Bulletin (SBs 72-0159 and 72-0140 - Cooling Hole Modification) is a product improvement which introduces the GEnx-1B/-2B/P2 configuration that improves the fuel efficiency of both GEnx engine models. Description: These Service Bulletins rework high-pressure turbine (HPT) Stage 1 shroud hangers to part number 2100M84G04. The reworked hanger has revised airflow requirements.

What do engine operators want from an overhaul provider? A team from Marketing, Sales, Mature Fleet and Customer Technical Programs joined forces to hear straight from African operators at a GE Aviation-hosted Engine Services Customer Symposium held in Casablanca, Morocco.

How long is 91,000 years? Go back that far in the history of the earth and the Sahara was a wet and fertile plateau.

Spare parts revenue forecasts are proving too conservative for CFM engines.