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NTSB urges grounding for certain GEnx-powered 787 and 747-8s
US aircraft safety investigators have called for grounding certain Boeing 787s and 747-8s powered by General Electric engines until they are inspected for cracks and also revealed that a cracked fan midshaft was discovered on a third engine last month. (www.flightglobal.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I am sure GE will get it fixed soon. GE is a good engine manufacture.
PER A GE WEBSITE - THE GENX IS PRODUCED IN THE US WITH CURRENT PRODUCTION AT 140 ENGINES THIS YEAR, 200 NEXT YEAR AND RISING TO A CAPABILITY OF 300 PER YEAR IN A FEW YEARS. FACILITIES ARE IN MISSISSIPPI, SOUTH CAROLINA, VERMONT, OHIO AND NORTH CAROLINA. NO INFO ON SOURCE OF ALL COMPONENTS. THERE MAY BE SOMETHING FROM JAPAN, ITAL, SWEDEN, GERMANY, BELGIUM, FRANCE AND KOREA. THESE COUNTRIES HAVE REVENUE-SHARING PARTICIPANTING COMPANIES IN EACH. NOTE, I DID NOT MENTION ANTHING ABOUT CHINA.
China is not hurt too bad if they don't get any of this pie. GE sells a lot more light bulbs than they do engines.lol
Make damn good industrial gas turbines too..we got a big GE facility in Aberdeen Scotland..hell of a good company!
Glad you're getting some of the pie. Nice to see my acestrial homeland prosper. I AM WILLIAM WALLACE! Couldn't resist, sorry.
Thanks..feel free..
Do all you critics of the GEnx-2B engine know precisely where it is assembled, when all the detail parts come from? Before you throw rocks at GE, get off your high wagon of China involemenet. I am retired from Boeing and the various GE engines used in jets and helicopter over the years have been outstanding.