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• CFM International launches transition process from CFM56 to LEAP

  

  The world’s best-selling aircraft engine, the CFM56, is to be slowly phased out by the new LEAP engine. In order to ensure a smooth transition, CFM International is adapting its production - a process the Franco-American engine manufacturer has just started.
   

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• CFM56: The Best-Selling Aircraft Engine in the World

  

  CFM International’s CFM56 is the best-selling aircraft engine in the world. A few days ago, the 30 000th one rolled off the assembly line. Let’s take a closer look at this Franco-American success story between Safran Aircraft Engines and General Electric.
   

  

• Urgent engine repair for 176 Boeing 787

  

  The latest version of the General Electric engines of the Boeing 787 has the possibility of shutting down in flight. The US Federal Aviation Administration has just issued an airworthiness directive to resolve the problem.
   

  

• Jet engines: why evermore larger fans?

  

  On commercial aircraft in the last decade, the trend has been toward wider jet engines with diameters increased by 6 to 20 inches (15 to 50 cm). Why? To consume and pollute less.
   

  

• First series-production LEAP engines delivered to Airbus

  

  The first two LEAP production engines for the A320neo were delivered on 15 April to Airbus. The first plane equipped with this engine should enter service sometime in June.
   

  

• HondaJet’s Over-The-Wing Engine Mount

  

  The originality of the HondaJet, the first of which has just been delivered, lies in the location of its twin General Electric engines, and set high on pylons above the wings.
   

  

• General Electric prints a 3D mini jet engine

  

  The US engine manufacturer General Electric has manufactured a complete turbojet using 3D printing. One more step in the additive manufacturing of aircraft parts.
   

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• Sikorsky's fast S-97 Raider's first low speed flight

  

  The US manufacturer Sikorsky’s S-97 Raider has just undertaken its maiden test flight. The hybrid helicopter has established a technological breakthrough compared to current aircraft.