General Electric has revealed plans to equip the GEnx engine for the Boeing 7E7 with a composite fan case, as well as composite fan blades, representing a significant departure from all previous jet ...

General Electric Co.'s GenX engine passed a critical first test of a new configuration--a composite fan case and composite blades--that promises significant weight reduction. In a blade-out rig test ...

Alliant Techsystems (ATK) has been selected by General Electric to produce the fan composite containment case for the GEnx engine adopted by Boeing as the exclusive powerplant for its stretched 747-8.

Rolls-Royce has begun ground tests of a modified Trent 1000 in which both the fan blades and fan case are made from composite material, marking a key step toward development of the company’s ...

The first round of fan blade tests occurred in June at the ITP Engine testing facility in the United Kingdom and focused on validating the new composite material for the fan blades. GE plans a second ...

The GE9X is a smaller variant of the General Electric GE90 high-bypass turbofan engines, developed for the new Boeing 777-8x/9x aircraft and introduced in 2013. GE Aviation is designing a new, thinner ...

The company announced the award of a contract valued at more than $50 million from Rolls-Royce plc, United Kingdom, to produce aft fan composite cases for the new Trent XWB-97 engine. The contract has ...