GE Aviation - Aircraft Engine Design & Construction Time-lapse

Discover a time-lapse video of jet engine construction on the GEnx-2B. This aircraft engine is built to power the Boeing 747-8. See the years of design, building, and testing in a 2 minute time-lapse.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• construction time-lapse
• aircraft engine
• engine construction
• engine design
• jet engine
• engine building
• engine testing
• aviation time-lapse
• 747-8
• GEnx
• Genx-2B
• General Electric
• GE

[circusboy90210]

@03chrisv roads could double as runways, the interstate system was mandated to have stretches big enough every so far to land large planes on an emergency basis.

[03chrisv]

@210482fmj We would need to figure out three things to make that happen. A safe air highway system that can handle at least 20 times the air traffic that we see today, making the planes more fuel efficient (people wont want to spend $200 on fuel for a 18 minute flight when they can spend $10 on fuel for a 60 minute drive), and develop very short take off planes, I'd even go so far as to say like a vertical take off jet. Having runways everywhere is just not practical.

[kinsley2108]

@alexscania Not very easy to land with assymetric thrust.

[alexscania]

good video but very bad landing.

[likmahchoda]

I fapped to this video... is that wrong?

[heidricht]

maravilhoso!

orgulho de ser GE.

[210482fmj]

its about time jet engines were mass produced and light airplanes were massed produced. this would drive the cost down to the same as motor vehicles. if flying was as popular as the family motor vehicle it would be so much cheaper. if we coudl some how develop landing zones and facilities to handle aircraft on a mass scale which could be done that would be awesome. will light aircraft ever reach the scale that cars have.

[nycworldsfair]

AMAZING TECHNOLOGY.

[hr1100]

@gcoochy Bullshit. The Germans had jet aircraft by the end of war.

[HighCardWins]

@scaremenga I know.