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Pratt & Whitney is geared for sustainable flight
Pratt & Whitney, a world leader in aircraft propulsion technology, is supporting its customers to achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2050. While this ambitious goal was recently adopted at the ICAO General Assembly, we are under no illusion as to the scale of the challenge. Our approach to powering ...
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GE Aerospace’s advanced materials for improved engine efficiency
Source: GE Aerospace The GE9X engine is the world’s most powerful commercial aircraft engine. It is up to 10% more fuel efficient than the GE90 engine, and contains the latest generation of carbon fiber composite, Ceramic Matrix Composite and additive parts. As one of the world’s largest ...
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Bombardier’s breakneck year of service network investment
When the doors formally opened at Bombardier’s impressive service centre at London’s Biggin Hill airport on 30 November it capped a remarkable 12 months for the Canadian manufacturer as it continues to invest in its industry-leading customer support network. The strategy is clear – to grow aftermarket revenues to $2 ...
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GE Aerospace’s ‘Smart Grids’ Make Flying More Efficient
Source: GE Research A silicon carbide (SiC) transistor, developed at GE Research, which allows huge leaps forward in creating power with less weight and can withstand higher temperatures New technologies, from advanced propellers and flight management systems to software focused on optimizing routes to reduce fuel use, ...
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GE’s new way of cleaning jet engines
GE’s 360 Foam Wash is a proprietary foam detergent with more jet engine cleaning capability than traditional water wash. The deeper clean helps restore engine performance, leading to improved fuel efficiency. First tested with customers in the Middle East, 360 Foam Wash is now more widely available. Learn more.
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Taking a new approach
Space-based ADS-B technology delivers operational, safety and environmental benefits to the aviation community
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MTU Maintenance ON-SITEPlus: more than just on-site and near-wing services
Some jobs never become routine—and nobody knows this better than the mobile teams for MTU Maintenance’s ON-SITEPlus service team. The time pressure alone is enough to turn every assignment into a challenge: there was no time to lose, for example, when an MTU customer’s aircraft had to make an unscheduled ...
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GE partners on hydrogen flight demonstrator
Earlier this year, CFM International, a 50-50 joint company between GE and Safran Aircraft Engines, joined Airbus to announce plans to flight test a hydrogen combustion engine. Learn more in this video with Mohamed Ali, GE Aerospace’s vice president of engineering, who explains the opportunities and challenges of hydrogen-fueled propulsion.
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Water-enhanced turbofan: Revolutionary propulsion concept based on a gas turbine engine
Reaching the ambitious targets of the Paris Agreement calls for revolutionary propulsion concepts. With the water-enhanced turbofan, MTU is working on a gas-turbine-based propulsion concept that approaches climate neutrality.
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GE’s major milestone for hybrid electric propulsion testing
Electric cars have become more common, but building a commercial electric plane is a different story. Just ask Mohamed Ali, vice president for engineering at GE. “Electric motors behave very differently at altitudes above 10,000 feet,” he says. “They are susceptible to plasma arcing, for example, and much more difficult ...
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3 Ways Thermoplastic Composites Improve Aerospace Sustainability
Building a sustainable future is undoubtedly growing in importance as airlines face greater scrutiny to reduce their carbon footprint. Rising fuel costs and supply chain delays have prompted industrial engineers at Collins Aerospace to introduce new and redesigned products to reduce energy usage, decrease aircraft weight, accelerate production and improve ...
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Why the time for open fan is now
During Farnborough International Airshow, CFM International, a 50-50 joint company between GE and Safran Aircraft Engines, and Airbus announced plans to flight test CFM’s cutting-edge open fan engine architecture. Hear from GE’s Chief Engineer Chris Lorence about why he thinks the time for open fan is now.
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GE’s Roadmap for the Future of Flight
GE is developing technologies to reduce CO2 emissions for a more sustainable future of flight. This includes innovating advanced new engine architectures such as open fan through the CFM International joint venture, megawatt-class hybrid electric propulsion, advanced new engine core designs, and supporting alternative fuels research.
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Driving Accelerated Change
The Farnborough Airshow’s Aerospace Global Forum will set the agenda for many of the big issues facing the industry during this decade and beyond
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Aviation can’t decarbonize without Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)
The aviation industry has an ambitious goal. The target is to reach net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050 through a mix of revolutionary aircraft and propulsion technologies, alternative fuels and operational improvements. In a matching ambition to be a net-zero company by 2050, GE Aviation is helping lead the industry to ...
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Collins Aerospace Leads the Way in Thermoplastic Composite Manufacturing
Imagine if a company could reduce its manufacturing cycle time by 80 percent while upgrading the products it was building, decrease the weight of those products by as much as 50 percent compared to earlier iterations, incorporate sustainability improvements that could result in a fully recyclable product at the end ...
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How to plan cost-effective engine MRO
At over 200 engines, the LATAM V2500 engine fleet is big. Taking into account that the aircraft are based across multiple countries in different regulations and jurisdictions, and a whole range of climates, it is also complex. Not to mention that each engine has five modules and up to 30,000 ...
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The Farnborough International Airshow is back and looking towards the future
The Farnborough International Airshow will resume its position as the pinnacle event for aerospace and aviation when it returns on 18-22 July
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At your service: why Bombardier is stepping up in aftersales
Your business jet might be the best-equipped on the market, unrivalled in terms of performance, and attractively priced. But if your manufacturer fails to match that with an aftersales service you can rely on to keep your multi-million-dollar asset mission-ready at all times, wherever you are in the world, that ...
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Why training in a simulator beats learning on an aircraft
Why practise in a simulator when an aircraft provides a more realistic experience? Well, for a start, it does not. A training device can teach a pilot to prepare for a host of scenarios and ultimately become a safer aviator