GE Aerospace

By Guy Norris
NASA and GE Aerospace will evaluate aircraft wake scanning technology during flight tests to improve the industry’s understanding of contrails.
Emerging Technologies

By Antoine Fafard
Aviation Week’s Commercial Fleet & MRO Forecast shows Boeing aircraft will account for 49% of MRO demand during the 2025-34 period, valued at $680 billion.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Lee Ann Shay, Thierry Dubois, James Pozzi
As the CFM Leap family of engines approaches 4,000 in-service engines, editors discuss how the network is ramping up and how repair developments are pacing.
MRO Podcast

By Graham Warwick
Canada backs sustainability research; electric Smartflyer rolls out; NASA’s X-59 fires up engine; and tackling hydrogen engine vibrations.
Emerging Technologies

By Molly McMillin
GE Aerospace is on track to certify its new clean-sheet 1,300 shp Catalyst engine in the coming months, company officials say.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
The company is fine-tuning its maintenance, repair and overhaul strategy for the turbofan amid production rate uncertainties and durability issues.
Services & Support

By James Pozzi
The ITP Aero subsidiary will have the capability to overhaul and repair the GE Aerospace manufactured engines.
MRO Europe

By Lee Ann Shay
Liebherr Aerospace and Airbus executives are also discussing improvements to the Skywise Fleet Performance+ tool they hope to make.
MRO Europe

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
GE Aerospace has expanded its artificial intelligence-enabled blade inspection tool from the GEnx platform to the GE9x and CFM International Leap.
MRO Europe

By Michael Bruno
GE Aerospace now expects Leap engine deliveries to be off 10% in 2024, more so than previous forecasts of same to 2023 or even up by 5%.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Sean Broderick
Installations of systems designed to prevent fuel nozzle coking on CFM International Leap 1A engines are ramping up, a senior GE Aerospace official says.
MRO Europe

By Lee Ann Shay
Companies urged to implement recommendations, including use of digital authorized release certificates, as soon as possible.
Supply Chain

By Guy Norris
Open fan or ducted? Airbus updates progress on crucial engine selection process for next-generation single-aisle A320 replacement.
Emerging Technologies

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
New robotic systems are helping OEMs, MROs and suppliers automate a range of maintenance tasks.
Marketplace

By Guy Norris
CFM International has revealed plans to conduct dust ingestion tests of the new high-pressure (HP) turbine blade at the core of its RISE technology initiative.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Variable-cycle engines are now a “mainstream research direction” in China.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
GE Aerospace will launch several new AI- and robotics-powered MRO technologies at its soon-to-open Services Technology Acceleration Center.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
GE Aerospace unit Aerospace Carbon Solutions has acquired Satavia, a UK-based company specializing in preventing the formation of contrails.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris, Steve Trimble
Next-Generation Adaptive Propulsion engine-makers are awaiting a possible redirection over power needs amid the U.S. Air Force's NGAD review.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Ann Shay
Many things in the MRO industry are in flux.
Supply Chain

By Paul Seidenman
Manufacturers are adding new products and capabilities for better integration and cloud access.
Marketplace

By Guy Norris, Sean Broderick
Boeing is working to identify why a common structural load-carrying component was found damaged on all 777-9 test aircraft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Keith Mwanalushi
GE Aerospace subsidiary Dowty on advances in aircraft propeller blade designs and their impacts on maintenance processes.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
The hypersonic aircraft developer has completed low-speed taxi tests of its Quarterhorse Mk. 1 vehicle ahead of flight tests planned for later this year.
Emerging Technologies