Posted on 09/15/2012 7:55:47 PM PDT by smokingfrog
The engine installed on every Boeing 787 built in South Carolina so far has a problem.
The first sign something was wrong came on a Saturday afternoon in July when the second locally made Dreamliner experienced a pre-flight engine failure as it accelerated down the runway at Charleston International Airport.
A month and a half later, the extent of the defect has become clearer and bigger.
The North Charleston incident was not isolated, as had been the original hope. Instead, two other General Electric-made GEnx engines have been found to suffer from a similar defect in the drive shaft.
And the concern is that the problem could be even more widespread, inherent to the make-up of the engine itself.
That news came Friday afternoon as the National Transportation Safety Board, which has been investigating the July 28 incident, issued a pair of urgent safety recommendations regarding the fan midshafts of GEnx engines.
The NTSB called on the Federal Aviation Administration to require ultrasound inspections of all GEnx-powered 787s and 747s not already inspected before any further flight.
The NTSB also recommended that the FAA require repetitive inspections of the fan midshafts of all GEnx engines at a sufficiently short interval that would permit multiple inspections and the detection of a crack before it could reach critical length and the FMS fractures.
Thats what happened in Charleston in July and on Tuesday as a Boeing 747-8F cargo jet was preparing to take off from Shanghai.
(Excerpt) Read more at aikenstandard.com ...
Dollar to donuts an engineer somewhere sounded the alarm months ago only to be told to shut up by “management”.
Out of curiosity, were the GE engines manufactured in a union shop in Ohio, before being sent to the Boeing facility in right-to-work South Caroina?
The unions are very unhappy about the South Carolina plant. Just saying....
Just like the O rings on the Challenger. May they R.I.P.
Everything that is GE is a piece of crap. Like my stove, and refrigerator etc;
Thanks smokingfrog.
G’night all.
I remembered from 50 years ago that GE manufactured engines in a suburb of Cincinnati.. I went looking to see it it had all been outsourced to Red China. Nope. But I could not verify where the failed parts were made.
Looks like quite a bit of interesting stuff at that site.
My GE dishwasher is also a piece of crap. Never again.
My GE dishwasher is also a piece of crap. Never again.
Evendale OH if they are GE engines, used to help them with their Calma systems back in the day. We would not outsource
these to China of whatever color.
Yes you are. And you'd better believe there was one hell of a stink at the time. Look at these Google links.
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This is going to be a huge problem when Dreamliner production is behind schedule. I was down at Paine field on Wednesday and there is a big long taxiway filled with airplanes that don’t have engines.
I have heard it said that the only thing GE makes that doesn’t suck is a vacuum cleaner.
I could have told them that O rings wouldn’t hold. I had faucets in my house in Houston that were fitted with O rings that leaked and fell apart because of the hard water. As I remember, the Challenger launch was postponed a couple of times because of the unseasonably cold weather. There was at least one engineer who came forward and related that he’d warned them, but...we all know the rest.
That was Thiokol that made the boosters, wasn’t it?
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