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N747GE
N747GE is a Boeing 747 aircraft that was used by GE Aerospace, General Electric Aircraft Engines as a testbed for several of the companies jet engines between 1992 and 2017, including the General Electric GE90 for the Boeing 777, at the time, the world's largest jet engine. Before being purchased by General Electric, the aircraft was owned by Pan Am and registered N744PA. It was named Clipper Star of the Union between 1970 and 1982 and Clipper Ocean Spray between 1982 and 1992. History Service with Pan Am The Boeing 747-121 rolled off of Boeing's assembly line in 1969 as the 25th Boeing 747 constructed. Originally registered as N744PA, the aircraft was delivered to Pan Am. N744PA remained under the ownership of Pan Am until 1991, when the airline entered bankruptcy. The aircraft was first named ''Clipper Star of the Union'' when delivered to Pan Am in 1970 and operated with that name until 1982 when it was renamed to ''Clipper Ocean Spray''. Service with General Electr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Preserved Boeing Aircraft
This article is a list of aircraft that were manufactured by Boeing and are in preservation. Accidents and incidents In preservation * On August 12, 1985, Japan Air Lines Flight 123, a Boeing 747SR registered as JA8119, was performing a flight from Haneda Airport, Tokyo International Airport, Tokyo, Japan, to Osaka International Airport, Osaka, Japan, when it crashed at Mount Takamagahara in Ueno, Gunma Prefecture after part of its vertical stabilizer separated from the aircraft. The wreckage of the aircraft is preserved at the Safety Promotion Center located on the grounds of Haneda Airport , Tokyo International Airport in Ota, Tokyo, Ota, Tokyo, Japan. * On March 28, 2002, NC19903 was involved in an accident when it Water landing, ditched at the Elliott Bay based in Seattle, Washington (state), Washington, United States. However, it was raised, repaired, and placed on static display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center based in Virginia, United States.Whitford, Ellen"Once ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Electric GE90
The General Electric GE90 is a family of High-bypass turbofan engine, high-bypass turbofan aircraft engines built by GE Aerospace for the Boeing 777, with thrust ratings from . It entered service with British Airways in November 1995. It is one of three engines for the 777-200 and -200ER, and the exclusive engine of the -200LR, -300ER, and 777F. It was the largest jet engine, until being surpassed in January 2020 by its successor, the General Electric GE9X, GE9X, which has a larger fan diameter by . However, the GE90-115B, the most recent variant of the GE90, is rated for a higher thrust (115,000 lbs) than the GE9X. Background In the early 1980s, GE began to develop an unducted fan (UDF) engine, which was thought to be a more fuel-efficient option to propel short-haul airliners, a compelling proposition after the 1979 oil crisis. NASA gave GE a grant in February 1984 to continue its research, eventually building the experimental General Electric GE36, GE36. One of the major inn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GE Aerospace
General Electric Company, doing business as GE Aerospace, is an American aircraft engine supplier that is headquartered in Evendale, Ohio, outside Cincinnati. It is the legal successor to the original General Electric Company founded in 1892, which split into three separate companies between November 2021 and April 2024, adopting the trade name GE Aerospace after divesting its healthcare and energy divisions. GE Aerospace both manufactures engines under its name and partners with other manufacturers to produce engines. CFM International, the world's leading supplier of aircraft engines and GE's most successful partnership, is a 50/50 joint venture with the French company Safran Aircraft Engines. As of 2020, CFM International holds 39% of the world's commercial aircraft engine market share (while GE Aerospace itself holds a further 14%). GE Aerospace's main competitors in the engine market are Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce. The division operated under the name of General Elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pima Air & Space Museum
The Pima Air & Space Museum is an aerospace museum in Tucson, Arizona, US. It features a display of nearly 400 aircraft spread out over on a campus occupying . It has also been the home to the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame since 1991. Overview A large number of the museum's aircraft are displayed outside with the remainder located in one of the museum's six display hangars. In addition to the display hangars, the museum has a restoration hangar. Opened to the public in May 1976 with 48 aircraft then on display, the museum's main hangar houses an SR-71A Blackbird, an A-10 Warthog, a United States Air Force ''Through the Years'' exhibit, and a mock-up of a control tower. The museum is adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), affiliated with the base, also known as the "Graveyard of Planes" or "The Boneyard", is the largest aircraft storage and preservation facility in the world. History The museum opened t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CFM International CFM56
The CFM International CFM56 (U.S. military designation F108) series is a Franco-American family of high-bypass turbofan aircraft engines made by CFM International (CFMI), with a thrust range of . CFMI is a 50–50 joint-owned company of Safran Aircraft Engines (formerly known as Snecma) of France, and GE Aerospace (GE) of the United States. GE produces the high-pressure compressor, combustor, and high-pressure Components of jet engines#Turbines, turbine, Safran manufactures the fan, Transmission (mechanics), gearbox, Nozzle, exhaust and the low-pressure turbine, and some components are made by Avio of Italy and Honeywell from the US. Both companies have their own final assembly line, GE in Evendale, Ohio, and Safran in Melun Villaroche Aerodrome, Villaroche, France. The engine initially had extremely slow sales but has gone on to become the most used turbofan aircraft engine in the world. The CFM56 first ran in 1974. By April 1979, the joint venture had not received a single ord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body aircraft, wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023. After the introduction of the Boeing 707, 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet times its size, to reduce its seat cost by 30%. In 1965, Joe Sutter left the Boeing 737, 737 development program to design the 747. In April 1966, Pan Am ordered 25 Boeing 747-100 aircraft, and in late 1966, Pratt & Whitney agreed to develop the JT9D engine, a high-bypass turbofan. On September 30, 1968, the first 747 was rolled out of the custom-built Everett Plant, the world's List of largest buildings#Largest usable volume, largest building by volume. The 747's first flight took place on February 9, 1969, and the 747 was certified in December of that year. It entered service with Pan Am on January 22, 1970. The 747 was the first airplane called a "Jumbo Jet" as the first wide-body airliner. The 747 is a four-engined jet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan Am
Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and more commonly known as Pan Am, was an airline that was the principal and largest international air carrier and unofficial overseas flag carrier of the United States for much of the 20th century. The first airline to fly worldwide, it pioneered innovations such as Wide-body aircraft, jumbo jets and computerized reservation systems, and introduced the Boeing 707, first American jetliner in 1958. Until its dissolution on December 4, 1991, Pan Am "epitomized the luxury and glamour of intercontinental travel", and it remains a cultural icon of the 20th century, identified by its blue globe logo ("The Blue Meatball"), the use of the word "Clipper" in its aircraft names and call signs, and the white uniform caps of its pilots. Founded in 1927 by two U.S. Army Air Corps majors, Pan Am began as a scheduled airmail and passenger service flying between Key West, Florida, and Havana, Cuba. In the 1930s, under the le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Electric GEnx
The General Electric GEnx ("General Electric Next-generation") is an advanced dual rotor, axial flow, high-bypass turbofan jet engine in production by GE Aerospace for the Boeing 747-8 and Boeing 787, 787. The GEnx succeeded the General Electric CF6, CF6 in GE's product line. Development In 2004 the GEnx and the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 were selected by Boeing following a run-off between the three big engine manufacturers. The GEnx uses some technology from the General Electric GE90, GE90 turbofan, including swept composite fan blades and the 10-stage high-pressure compressor (HPC) featured in earlier variants of the engine. The engine carries composite technology into the fan case. The engine market for the 787 is estimated at US$40 billion over the next 25 years. A first is the elimination of bleed air systems using high temperature/high pressure air from the propulsion engines to power aircraft systems such as the starting, air-conditioning and anti-ice systems. Both engines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
N7470
The "''City of Everett''", is a Boeing 747, registered as N7470, that was built by Boeing as the prototype of the type. The aircraft rolled off the assembly line on September 30, 1968, and had its first flight on February 9, 1969. After the conclusion of the 747-flight testing program, Boeing retained the aircraft, using it for research and testing purposes until the early 1990s. The aircraft took its final flight on April 6, 1995, to the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington where it remains on display. History Birth of the ''Jumbo Jet'' On September 30, 1968, the Boeing 747-100 prototype, registered as N7470 had rolled off the production line at the Boeing Everett Factory, a massive building that was constructed to build the 747 and was built almost simultaneously with the aircraft. The aircraft carried manufacturer serial number 20235 and was designated internally as RA001, marking the beginning of the era of the "jumbo jet". N7470 has a paint design featuring a sim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Aviation
''Australian Aviation'' is an online and print aviation publication covering the aviation Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ''Aircraft'' include fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air aircraft such as h ... industry. History ''Australian Aviation'' was founded by in 1977 by Jim Thorn as ''Australian Aviation & Defence Review''. It was founded as an annual, becoming a quarterly publication in 1979, bi-monthly in 1985 and monthly from May 1990. From March 1994 it became all colour. In April 2005, it was sold to employees Gerard Frawley, Andrew Mclaughlin and Lee Anne Simm. In 2018, the publication was acquired by Aviator Media. It was subsequently purchased by Momentum Media in 2020. References {{Reflist External linksOfficial website Aviation magazines Bi-monthly magazines published in Australia Magazines established in 1977 Magazines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis–Monthan Air Force Base
Davis–Monthan Air Force Base (DM AFB) is a United States Air Force base southeast of downtown Tucson, Arizona. It was established in 1925 as Davis–Monthan Landing Field. The host unit for Davis–Monthan AFB is the 355th Wing (355 WG) assigned to Twelfth Air Force (12AF), part of Air Combat Command (ACC). The base is best known as the location of the Air Force Materiel Command's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (309 AMARG), the aircraft boneyard for all excess military and U.S. government aircraft and aerospace vehicles. Davis–Monthan Air Force Base is a key ACC installation. The 355th Wing (355 WG) provides A-10 Thunderbolt II close air support and OA-10 forward air controllers to ground forces worldwide. The 355 WG is the host unit, providing medical, logistical, mission and operational support to assigned units. The 355 WG is the sole formal training unit for the A-10 aircraft, providing initial and recurrent training to all U.S. Air Force A-10 and O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
