The World’s Largest Jet Engine GE9X First Flight 2018

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The world's largest jet engine, has taken flight for the first time in the skies over the Mojave Desert in California. On Tuesday, GE Aviation's GE9X powered into the air on the wing of the company's, "Flying Test Bed", based at an airstrip in Victorville, California, on a four-hour test flight, to check essential engine functions as the start trials for official certification for service.

Developed for Boeing's 777X next-generation wide-body passenger jet. The GE9X is a monster compared to its predecessors. Due to the extensive use of composites in building the fan blades and the fan case, 3D-printed nozzles, new light- and heat-resistant ceramics, and reducing the number of fan blades from 22 to 16, GE was able to lighten the engine and expand its size so that its fan is now 134-inches (341 cm) across and the entire engine is as wide as a Boeing 737 fuselage. In addition, it can push 100,000 lb of thrust and is 10 percent more efficient than the GE90 engine, used on the current generation of 777s.

GE Aviation says it has over 700 orders on the books for the GE9X from customers, that include Cathay Pacific, Emirates, Lufthansa, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways. Currently, the company is working on the backup electrical system for the 777X while the GE9X continues with several more months of flight tests, to determine altitude performance as well as during other flight phases. So far it has undergone ground-based icing tests at GE Aviation's facility in Winnipeg, Canada, and is conducting crosswind testing at the Peebles Test Operation in Ohio.
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Son-in-law is an A&P on this plane. I've been in it and all around it. That is the biggest turbo fan engine I've ever seen. The videos don't do it justice. I have a picture of my 5' 8" tall daughter standing in the intake and it makes her look small.

DDsnipe
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Wow. Just wow!! Can't wait to see it in action.

ezekielmajor
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The Mo-JAVE desert?

Nope, I can't do it...

radudeATL
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Mo-Jave? The Boeing seVEn hUNdrEd SeVenTY SeVEn.

CPA
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the ge9x sound like ge90-115b same right

rickybrown
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Give your narrator a glass of calcium chloride and salt to gargle with. Then locate a real living credible speaker.

rayford
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Why use such a poor computer generated voice, in fact, why use a computer generated voice at all? GE's Rick Kennedy did such a good job on the previous video it was a joy to listen to it. Changing to this format was a dreadful mistake. I thought the American philosophy was "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

bsul
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The word Mojave isn't pronounced as it looks to a British subject. The J is pronounced as an H; and, ave is pronounced as ave in Ave (Maria) Mo h ave.

tabasco
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PLEASE do not use computer generated narration. I had to stop after two minutes of that rubbish.

arthouston
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bye bye boeing 747 for ever now boeing 777x!

rickybrown
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Had to stop. That British robot voice is terrible.

misterkota