A message from Ted Ingling, GE9X Program General Manager at GE Aviation, during the 2017 Paris Air Show. Certification testing is underway on GE Aviation’s latest engine in development—the GE9X…
…to better control the aircraft during situations with asymmetric thrust from a large engine like the GE9X. A peak under the hood of the GE9X engine. The GE9X is the…
…efforts of the GE9X team and our partners,” said Karl Sheldon, GE9X program general manager. “The GE9X engine has been through a rigorous and thorough certification and testing process. We…
…GE9X’s exclusive platform. And just this week, Emirates doubled down on the engine, placing an order for 202 additional GE9X engines, bringing its total order to 460 units. Surrounded by…
…expected in 2019. Watch the GE9X engine’s first flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsY5g3iV1rg With almost 700 GE9X engines on order, the GE9X engine will be in the 100,000 pound thrust class and will…
…has ever used and was built to fit in front of the GE9X’s large fan,” said Phil Dietz, GE9X program control board chair at GE Aviation. “The inlet is a…
Final assembly is well underway on GE Aviation’s first full GE9X engine, that will test in the first half of 2016, four years before the GE9X engine enters service on…
GE Aviation has successfully completed one-third of the 25 major test campaigns required for certification of the GE9X, and is on track to certify the engine next year. GE9X, the…
Ground testing is underway on the first full GE9X development engine, which is the world’s largest commercial aircraft engine, at GE Aviation’s Peebles Testing Operation. “The entire GE9X team—from engineering…
…how it will perform. The FETT is a culmination of maturation testing on the GE9X technologies, which started five years ago. The GE9X FETT testing, which began in late March,…
