With Final Delivery of Last 747, Dave Kircher Sees a New Era Dawning for GEnx
When the last 747-8F freighter rolls out of the completion center at Boeing’s wide-body aircraft factory in Everett, Washington, on Jan. 31, it will be a poignant moment for Dave Kircher.
View ArticleMiddle East Breakthrough: Emirates Operates First Flight in Region Using 100%...
It wasn’t a long flight: just over an hour above the Arabian Gulf and then back to its Dubai origin. It peaked at about 32,000 feet.
View ArticleLike Father, Like Son: How Chris Day Followed His Dad Into GE’s Engineering...
When Chris Day was in sixth grade, he didn’t feel like one of the cool kids. That is, until the day he broke his battery-powered toy truck and brought it to his dad, James.
View ArticleUrgent Power: A Mobile GE Gas Turbine Will Help Supply Energy in Wintry,...
On an average winter day in Ukraine, temperatures barely creep above freezing.
View ArticleOrchestrating Electrons: GE’s GridOS Is Poised to Help Utilities Navigate a...
Power-grid management in the old days was a simpler affair. Big generators pumped out electricity, and operators kept surpluses in reserve, meeting somewhat predictable demand fluctuations.
View ArticleSmooth Power: GE Helps Recharge Eurotunnel So More Trains Can Travel Vital...
Despite Britain’s exit from the European Union two years ago, a unique piece of infrastructure forever links the country to the Continent: the Channel Tunnel.
View ArticleGE releases 2022 Annual Report
Today GE released its 2022 Annual Report, which includes our Chairman and CEO Larry Culp’s fifth Letter to Shareh
View ArticleBlending Art and Science: GE Engineer Colin Parris Transforms Curiosity Into...
As an electrical engineering major at Howard University in the 1980s, Colin Parris received a tricky assignment: Build a small burglar alarm that would turn on a light when a switch was opened.
View Article‘The Backbone of Indian Aviation’: GE Aerospace, CFM Close One of Commercial...
Vikram Rai remembers well the days when air travel was rare in India. He didn’t fly outside his native India until he was 25.
View ArticleMr. Fix-It: A Spraying, Snaking Robot Aims to Patch America’s Crumbling...
Six to ten feet below the ground, 12-inch pipes carry natural gas all over America. They wind around electrical conduits and water mains.
View ArticleThe 5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
A morphing metal robot, mapping the universe, and pulling hydrogen from the sea. This week’s coolest things challenge the very matter of existence.
View ArticleA 40-Year Bond: GE’s Ties to India Grow With New Investments in Its Defense...
This week, in the skies over the Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru, India, the world’s most cutting-edge aircraft looped and raced as an audience below craned their necks to watch.
View ArticleThe 5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
Cutting through clots, finding Earth’s inner-inner core, and getting to the root of Alzheimer’s disease. This week’s coolest things dig deep.
View ArticleFeeling Connected: How Engineer Devon Shepherd Put On Her Authentic Face and...
When she was a little girl, every Friday for six years of her childhood in Columbus, Ohio, Devon Shepherd’s family would get in their minivan and drive to the airport to watch planes take off and l
View ArticleShipping Sunshine: GE and IHI Explore Ways to Transform Ammonia Into a...
Japan presides over a highly developed economy, yet, lacking abundant domestic energy sources, it remains reliant on the costly import of coal, oil, and natural gas in the form of liquefied natural
View ArticlePacking a Punch: This GE Engineer Is Designing a High-Tech ‘Suitcase’ for...
Satish Prabhakaran almost missed his calling as an engineer. In the summer of 1994, the 14-year-old Prabhakaran, a native of Chennai, India, was on summer break with family in the United Kingdom.
View ArticleGoing Very High, Very Fast: Up in the Air With GE’s 747 Flying Test Bed...
It’s hard to get bored when your day job involves climbing into a seat on the upper deck of a Boeing 747 and cruising over the Sierra Nevada mountain range on a regular basis.
View ArticleForce Multiplier: GE’s High-Efficiency ‘HE’ Solution Poised to Land in Australia
A gas turbine stripped down to nothing but its casing brings to mind a scene from an automaker’s assembly line: an empty chassis that’s full of potential.
View ArticleInvestor Conference 2023: Take a Look at a Dozen of GE’s Biggest, Most...
This Thursday, GE will hold its annual Investor Conference at GE Aerospace’s Customer Technical Education Center and nearby manufacturing facilities in Cincinnati and will feature keynote presentat
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