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1 posted on 06/11/2018 2:12:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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GE does make good aircraft engines.


2 posted on 06/11/2018 2:15:35 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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The Dreamliner is my favorite plane!!!!! Fly it regularly.


3 posted on 06/11/2018 2:19:05 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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a rare opportunity for a win for GE

You mean getting general use incandescent lightbulbs banned wasn't enough?

6 posted on 06/11/2018 2:49:26 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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Sounds like replacing the faulty part requires a complete tear down then inspection and rebuild.

I wonder if they used cheap Chinese metal.


7 posted on 06/11/2018 2:54:52 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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And GE has already started flight testing the GE9X-104 engine for the 777X.


8 posted on 06/11/2018 2:56:09 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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A sloppily machined lube oil stub pipe almost took down Qantas flight 32 in 2010 by causing an uncontained turbine failure in the IP turbine on the aircraft's #2 (port inboard) engine.

The stub pipe broke off in flight, causing lube oil to spray and catch fire, heating up one of the IP turbine disks; the resulting rise in disk temp caused it to loose shrink-fit attachment to the IP shaft. The disk slipped on the shaft, going into an overspeed condition, whereupon it ruptured, shedding turbine blades. Some of the blades shredded hydraulic and fuel lines, causing leaks and a fire, and caused control system problems that resulted in number 1 and number 4 engines (meaning only one engine, #3, was fully functional).

Other damage was caused also, to landing gear and wing flap controls.

One red-hot turbine blade penetrated the roof of an elementary school building on Batam island while class was in session.

9 posted on 06/11/2018 2:59:56 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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Rolls Royce was at the heart of the C-5A problems that crippled Lockheed.


10 posted on 06/11/2018 3:01:39 PM PDT by PAR35
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Every corporation that sucked the Obama has been going down the toilet.


11 posted on 06/11/2018 3:22:22 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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GE started going down the toilet after Jack Welch left.


16 posted on 06/11/2018 6:52:43 PM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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