(from left) Guinness World Records Judge Phillip Robertson presenting GE9X General Manager Ted Ingling with the world record certificate. They stand in front of the GE9X engine. The GE9X is the ...

To test the GE9X turbofan jet engine, GE Aviation reportedly invested about $10 million at the Peebles (Ohio) Testing Operation, including the design and fabrication of the 18-ft-diameter, 12-ft-high, ...

Early last year, GE Aviation successfully tested its giant jet engine, the GE9X, in its first test flight. Now, nearly a year later, Boeing has installed two GE9X jet engines on its first 777X flight ...

General Electric announced that its aviation unit received certification by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its GE9X engine to be used in the Boeing 777X, in what marks a key ...

General Electric is currently developing the largest turbofan engine ever to be used in commercial aviation. The GE9X is being made to power the Boeing 777X next generation widebody airliner, as the ...

The world's largest jet engine has taken flight for the first time in the skies over the Mojave Desert in California. On Tuesday, GE Aviation's GE9X powered into the air on the wing of the company's ...

GE Aviation still anticipates completing GE9X certification testing this year after a lengthier-than-planned round of flight tests and recently discovered "anomaly" in an engine's high-pressure ...

GE Aviation’s Boeing 747-400 flying testbed in Victorville, California, is ready to receive the first GE9X test engine. Boeing engineers have modified the aircraft with a strengthened wing and a new ...

GE Aviation reported that final assembly is underway on the first full GE9X engine, in preparation for testing in the first half of this year. The first GE9x engine is scheduled to enter service in ...

Boeing's (NYSE: BA) new 777X series of commercial jets will soon become the largest twin-engine jets on the market. To power them, Boeing needed the world's most powerful jet engines. General Electric ...

A monster plane deserves a monster engine. With a composite fan more than 11 feet in diameter tucked inside a 14-and-a-half foot nacelle, General Electric's GE9X is the biggest jet engine in the world ...

The GE9X is the exclusive engine for the Boeing 777x, which is expected to take its first flight later this year. GE Aviation says the GE9X is the most fuel-efficient jet engine it has ever produced, ...