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 ...
GE Aviation says its remote diagnostics services "contributed substantially" to finding three cracked fan blades among the thousands of engines it analyzed during 2008. The engine maker revealed the ...
A population of 13,000 fan blades from General Electric CF34-3B1 engines that power Bombardier CRJ200 aircraft have been identified by the engine manufacturer as being defective. These blades were ...