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300 million flight hours later, GE Aerospace refines its most advanced jet engine

Thirty years ago, GE Aerospace transformed commercial aviation with a material swap that most ...
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This Plane Set The Record For The Slowest Jet To Ever Fly

Ever since Sir Frank Whittle in England and Hans von Ohain in Germany worked separately to invent the jet engine, the engine has been associated with high-performance machines. And, of course, some of ...
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Why Jet Engines Are Getting Bigger And Bigger

While the World War II era was the first time we saw fighter jet engines take to the sky, there were some earlier operational prototypes. Anselm Franz, an Austrian engineer, designed and fitted one of ...
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What's The Average Lifespan Of A Jet Engine?

A white wide-body jet in the air, with one jet engine appearing on the right-hand wing - Dushlik/Getty Images The dawn of the jet age changed the landscape of commercial flight forever, giving rise to ...
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Who Builds Boeing's Jet Engines, And Are They The Same As Airbus Uses?

American aerospace giant Boeing has taken a bit of tarnish of late. A pair of deadly crashes and other lesser malfunctions have sullied the reputations of the latest iterations of the brand's 737 Max ...