CFM, a GE-Safran/Snecma joint venture, has seen at least eight sets of blades with fake records in recent months, alerts sent to its customers reveal.

Marcellette Cloche, CFM* TRUEngine Program Manager, answers three questions about the TRUEngine program. *CFM and CFM56 are trademarks of CFM International, a 50/50 joint venture between GE and Snecma (Safran).

Development of new repairs has the dual goal of increasing an engine’s time on wing while reducing an operator’s cost of ownership. Following are recently released repairs and programs for GE and CFM56* engines

Last month, we took a look at fleet staggering and worked with the following example. An operator purchased 16 aircraft over a 24-month period. This consisted of 32 engines and three spares

The engine—which flew for 5.5 hr. in the No. 2 position on General Electric’s 747-100 flying testbed at Victorville, California, on April 29—becomes the third member of the family to reach the flight-test stage.

For instance, each blade location on a high pressure turbine disk has the pulling force of 5 large pick-up trucks or 25,000 lbs.

This series of articles is dedicated to the concept of staggering your fleet. What does it mean to stagger your fleet?

Hainan Airlines is negotiating with General Electric and Rolls-Royce for engines for the 30 Boeing 787-9s that it plans to order, even though it uses GE GEnx engines for 10 new 787-8s it has in service, an industry official says.