Boeing, GE Aerospace Get Qatar Airways Order
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GE Aerospace GE recently secured a contract from Qatar Airways to supply GE9X and GEnx engines. This marks the largest widebody engine deal in GE’s history. Since the launch of GEnx, the engine family has completed more than 62 million flight hours.
The test campaign of HPT blades and nozzles demonstrated improved durability and fuel efficiency compared to conventional turbine technology.
NASHVILLE—The U.S. Army’s plan to end the Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP) may not be final, as budget deliberations may extend development of the GE Aerospace T901.
Qatar Airways committed to acquiring as many as 210 widebody jets in a deal projected to be worth $96 billion, supporting over 150,000 jobs.
Aviation company GE Aerospace says it is now assembling the first GE9X engines that will go into the upcoming Boeing 777X.
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GE Aerospace has emerged from the former GE conglomerate as a formidable and focused turbine engine producer, powering about three of every four commercial airline flights. The jet engine business is split between designing and supplying new engines—including significant ongoing research and development to ensure that successive generations of engines outperform their predecessors—and servicing existing engines with replacement and refurbished parts throughout their very long service lives.
Due to the smaller size of the RISE compact core components, the HP turbine blades and nozzles are being evaluated in an F110 military donor engine. GE says the follow-on dust tests may also use the F110 which, if confirmed, will be run behind a specially developed dust ingestion test rig.