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From Zero to Full Throttle: It Takes Tough Love to Test a Jet Engine
Tough love is one way to describe what Ray Staresina does to jet engines. Staresina is a “cell owner” at GE’s aviation boot camp deep in the woods outside Peebles, Ohio. His job is to expose new...
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Plants for Planes: GE Orders “Bathtubs of Biofuel” to Power Jet Engines
Day in and day out, engineers GE’s Peebles Test Operation subject jet engines to the FAA equivalent of a Tough Mudder race. From the giant GEnx to the tiny HondaJet, the engines must endure...
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Sphere of Turbulence: What’s Hiding Inside a Mysterious Orb at GE’s Jet...
Hiding deep in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in southern Ohio is a boot camp for some of the world’s most powerful jet engines. The Peebles Test Operation is where GE subjects its engines...
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Dancing With Jet Engines: Marquese Scott Busts His Moves at GE’s Aviation...
Last summer, GE invited the DJ and musician Matthew Dear to listen to the sounds of jet engines, MRIs and turbines, and turn them into a dance track. In September, the company brought the dancer and...
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Inside GE’s Boot Camp For Jet Engines
There are few people who know more about bad days for flying than Brian De Bruin and his team at GE’s jet engine testing facility in Peebles, Ohio. The team’s job is to make sure that GE engines keep...
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Best Pictures of 2015: The GE Edition
Every year, GE sends photographers, filmmakers and other visual artists around the world to document its technology in action. 2015 was no different. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet...
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GE Started Testing The World’s Largest Jet Engine
How large is the world’s largest jet engine? So large that Shaquille O’Neil would fit inside it with Kobe Bryant sitting on his shoulders. Engineers at GE Aviation just assembled the first of these...
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Where Jet Engines Take a Licking But Keep On Ticking
Every day is a bad day for flying if you hang out with Brian DeBruin. DeBruin runs GE Aviation’s jet engine test operations site in Peebles, Ohio, and his job is to make sure that GE engines keep...
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