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NTSB urges grounding for certain GEnx-powered 787 and 747-8s
US aircraft safety investigators have called for grounding certain Boeing 787s and 747-8s powered by General Electric engines until they are inspected for cracks and also revealed that a cracked fan midshaft was discovered on a third engine last month. (www.flightglobal.com) さらに...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
PER A GE WEBSITE - THE GENX IS PRODUCED IN THE US WITH CURRENT PRODUCTION AT 140 ENGINES THIS YEAR, 200 NEXT YEAR AND RISING TO A CAPABILITY OF 300 PER YEAR IN A FEW YEARS. FACILITIES ARE IN MISSISSIPPI, SOUTH CAROLINA, VERMONT, OHIO AND NORTH CAROLINA. NO INFO ON SOURCE OF ALL COMPONENTS. THERE MAY BE SOMETHING FROM JAPAN, ITAL, SWEDEN, GERMANY, BELGIUM, FRANCE AND KOREA. THESE COUNTRIES HAVE REVENUE-SHARING PARTICIPANTING COMPANIES IN EACH. NOTE, I DID NOT MENTION ANTHING ABOUT CHINA.
China is not hurt too bad if they don't get any of this pie. GE sells a lot more light bulbs than they do engines.lol
Make damn good industrial gas turbines too..we got a big GE facility in Aberdeen Scotland..hell of a good company!
Glad you're getting some of the pie. Nice to see my acestrial homeland prosper. I AM WILLIAM WALLACE! Couldn't resist, sorry.
Thanks..feel free..
I tried to search the WEB to find out where the engine is manufactured. What I found is there is not one place that manufactures all the parts. Many of the parts are manufactured in the USA all though some do come from China. Just which parts they may be I could not find out.
The engine itself as an end unit I believe is built up and delivered from a factory in the USA. Based on the stories I've read so far and the the bulletin put out by GE I have my doubts the failure is going to found to be a failure of the metal forging itself. Rather it appears to look like the coating used by GE is failing to protect against corrosion from salt water. Since these planes are doing a great deal of flying over salt water this may end up being the true cause.
The engine itself as an end unit I believe is built up and delivered from a factory in the USA. Based on the stories I've read so far and the the bulletin put out by GE I have my doubts the failure is going to found to be a failure of the metal forging itself. Rather it appears to look like the coating used by GE is failing to protect against corrosion from salt water. Since these planes are doing a great deal of flying over salt water this may end up being the true cause.