As a little girl, Nolita Lewis would often gaze upward from her home near the Atlanta airport and ponder the mystery of what keeps planes in the sky. She had no way of knowing that one day she’d be one of the people engaged in the crucial work of keeping those engines in flight. Lewis’s journey to becoming an engineer at GE Aerospace was complicated by multiple factors. She was the first in her family to go to college, the first to become an engineer, and the first to work in corporate America. “If you had asked me in high school what an engineer does, much less if there are female engineers ..read more

This week at the Oshkosh air show in Wisconsin, the world’s largest air show, GE Aerospace debuted its new livery design for the aircraft testbed for NASA’s Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD) project, a landmark effort to help prove the feasibility of hybrid electric flight for commercial aviation. For the hybrid electric test flights, GE Aerospace is partnering with Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences using a modified Saab 340B aircraft powered by GE’s CT7 engines. Despite appearances, the hybrid electric testbed won’t be an ordinary plane. GE Aerospace is devel ..read more

Andrew Dubrule began his career as a chef. Armed with a culinary arts degree from the State University of New York at Cobleskill, he interned at the University of the Arts in Florence, Italy, and worked for years at restaurants in New York City. But when he and his wife decided to start a family, he had a change of heart. In 2019, Dubrule traded in the grueling hours and uncertain future of restaurant life for a job as a machine operator at GE Aerospace’s Rutland, Vermont, plant. But just a year later, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dubrule was laid off at the same time that his pre ..read more

In our next instalment of Quick Six, we sat down with Hannah Gray, who was recently a finalist in the British Ex-Forces in Business Finalist for her work as an advocate for Veteran’s transitioning into commercial careers. She leads GE’s Military Officer Leadership Program for the UK and is also a regular speaker at Officers Association & Forces Employment Charity employment summits specifically supporting female veterans and those interested in commercial careers. Hannah was one of the first employees to join UK GE’s first Military Officer Leadership Program (MOLP). She now leads the pro ..read more

Anyone who visited the GE Aerospace chalet at the Paris Air Show, on the grounds of Le Bourget Airport, came away with three distinct impressions: The market for engines is growing, lean is working, and new technologies are on the rise. “Our team brought to life how lean is empowering our people, driving operational improvements, and enabling us to better serve our customers, suppliers, and partners,” said Larry Culp, GE chairman and CEO and GE Aerospace CEO. “We also had the opportunity to showcase our CFM RISE program technology, including our development of open-fan architecture ..read more

For our next installation of Quick Six, we sat down with Jami Tomczak, Lean Facilitator for supply chain at GE Aerospace’s Grand Rapids, Michigan, location. She’s been with GE Aerospace for four years and helps drive improvement by ensuring that people at her site are executing lean practices. She does this by fostering an environment of learning so everyone can develop creative solutions using lean. Jami is not only passionate about lean, she’s also an active member in the Pride Alliance employee resource group (ERG) at the Grand Rapids facility. She’s an advocate and hopes to inspire other ..read more

In our next installation of Quick Six, GE Aerospace sat down with Andy Bell, a member of the Military Officer Leadership Program (MOLP). Bell spent 25 years flying several front-line aircraft for the Royal Air Force before joining GE Aerospace a year ago. Located at Cheltenham site in the UK, Bell is halfway through the two-year program, which consists of 3 rotations anywhere in the business. He is currently working within the Defense and Systems Supply Chain. Tell us a bit about your experience in the Royal Air Force and how the transition to GE Aerospace has been going. I spent 25 yea ..read more

The aviation industry made its long-awaited return to the Paris Air Show this week, the first since 2019. An impressive display of commercial, military, and business and general aviation aircraft lined the side of the Le Bourget Airport runway, many with GE Aerospace technology onboard. Here is a round-up of all the news that made headlines. Day 1: Saturday, June 17, 2023 GE Aerospace runs one of the world’s largest supercomputer simulations to test revolutionary new open fan engine architecture • GE Aerospace is first business to use the U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laborat ..read more

Currently showing on Petter Hörnfeldt’s popular aviation-themed YouTube channel is a video entitled “Revolutionizing Flight! The Amazing Potential of the CFM RISE Engine.” On screen, Hörnfeldt wears a black T-shirt sporting the “Mentour Crew” logo — a reference to Mentour Pilot, the name of his channel and its sister channel, Mentour Now! — above a bright yellow graphic that to most English speakers might as well be Finnish: “INOP SEE T/LOG.” It’s the kind of insider reference that speaks directly to his fan base: more than 1.5 million aviation enthusiasts, many of whom will recognize it as ..read more

Although he hesitated to admit it, Kyle Varble was confused. Fresh out of college, he was working in procurement at a manufacturing company, where every day brought some new bit of unfamiliar jargon. One day a supplier told him that the parts Kyle needed wouldn’t arrive for two weeks, because they had to sit on the CMM machine. His mind raced. What does a CMM machine do, and why does it take that long? What does “CMM” even stand for? “I was new but prideful,” admits Kyle, who had been an honors student in supply chain management, “so I turned to someone I could trust to answer my questions ..read more