—If Jeff Immelt could pick a period that captures his vision for General Electric Co., the fourth week in August might do: GE signed an electricity joint venture in China, the conglomerate's airplane jet-engine partnership won $2.2 billion in orders from a U.S. airline and the company at a ceremony in Brazil said it was extending its Olympics sponsorship. ❋ Kate Linebaugh (2011)
•Government contractors are scrambling to figure out what a shutdown might mean for the hundreds of thousands of non-government workers who do everything from building jet-engine parts to education research to emptying the trash in government buildings. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Helping GE's performance will be a favorable tax rate and strong jet-engine orders. ❋ Kate Linebaugh (2012)
Thanks to similarly strong results across its jet-engine and energy divisions, Rolls is cranking production up higher than it ever has. ❋ Daniel Michaels (2011)
John Rose will retire as chief executive of the jet-engine and power-equipment maker in March next year after 15 years at the helm. ❋ Matthew Curtin (2010)
For more than an hour Swans performed at jet-engine volume, drawing out songs from the most savage reaches of its back catalog, like "Your Property" from 1984's "Cop." ❋ Aaron Leitko (2010)
In a sign of confidence after a high-profile jet-engine explosion two months ago, plane manufacturer Airbus and engine maker Rolls-Royce Group PLC unveiled new orders for A380 superjumbo aircraft and Trent engines. ❋ Jonathan Buck (2011)
United Technologies owns jet-engine maker Pratt & Whitney. ❋ Chris Dieterich (2011)
GE's aircraft-leasing arm has 60 planes with units of AMR Corp., which is also one of the largest customers of GE's jet-engine business. ❋ Doug Cameron (2011)
While those steps reduced the company's rhenium use by two-thirds, GE also started a global recycling partnership with other jet-engine makers to further cut the need for new metal. ❋ Tatyana Shumsky (2011)
The deal also brought Rolls's marine division to Singapore, where its jet-engine business was growing quickly. ❋ Daniel Michaels (2011)
The high-pitched hum of the rig's two jet-engine compressors, which push up to 25m3 of natural gas per day along a 90cm-wide pipeline to Barrow-in-Furness, rings loudly in our ears. ❋ Graham Snowdon (2010)
The downturn crimped many of UTC's business units, a diverse group that includes jet-engine maker Pratt & Whitney, Otis Elevator and Carrier air and heating appliances, which suffered with the global construction industry. ❋ Peter Sanders (2011)
The two largest U.S. aerospace groups have bulging order books, stoked by aircraft and jet-engine sales, but are also contending with the challenge of new-product launches and uncertainty about defense budgets. ❋ David Kesmodel (2012)
Scrap-metal companies now fish out jet-engine parts from the general steel scrap heap because the rhenium-bearing alloy parts garner a premium. ❋ Tatyana Shumsky (2011)
That's Rolls-Royce the jet-engine pioneers, rather than the carmaker, which is now owned by the Bavarians. ❋ Unknown (2011)
For more than an hour, Swans performed at jet-engine volume, drawing out songs from the most savage reaches of its back catalogue, such as "Your Property" from 1984's "Cop." ❋ Aaron Leitko (2010)
By tweaking the mix of other hardening additives like nickel and molybdenum, which are cheaper and more abundant, GE was able to cut the rhenium content in its jet-engine blades to 3% from 6%. ❋ Tatyana Shumsky (2011)
It marks the first time Rolls will produce outside the U.K. one of its most prized technologies: titanium jet-engine fan blades. ❋ Daniel Michaels (2011)
Wow, what about that [Nava]? She's [a bloody] [Jet Engine] she is. ❋ ApexB (2005)
[hang] on, [I can't] hear a word you're saying; [my computer] is jet engining ❋ X Marks My Dick (2017)
"[Liam], He [went] like a [jet engine]!" ❋ Insertnamehere. (2009)
“did you [hear] about [betty] her [boyfriend] has a jet engine ejaculation” ❋ Testicularbreath (2023)
Wow, u [saw that] [good looking] [jet engine] walking over there? ❋ Vl.ok (2017)
