{"id":252847,"date":"2018-03-19T12:37:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T10:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=252847"},"modified":"2018-03-19T12:39:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T10:39:52","slug":"the-worlds-largest-jet-engine-tested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/252847-the-worlds-largest-jet-engine-tested.html","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s largest jet engine tested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General Electric has tested the world&#8217;s largest jet engine, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.geaviation.com\/press-release\/ge9x-engine-family\/ge9x-engine-goes-airborne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>GE9XTM<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The unit was tested on the company&#8217;s Boeing 747 test plane during a flight, and is set to power\u00a0Boeing\u2019s new 777X aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The engine will be in the &#8220;100,000 pound thrust class&#8221; and\u00a0will have a front fan which measures 134 inches in diameter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Other key features include a next-generation 27:1 pressure-ratio 11-stage high-pressure compressor, and a third-generation TAPS III combustor,&#8221; said General Electric.<\/p>\n<p>Engine certification is expected in 2019, added the company.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/252831-apples-next-event-may-reveal-cheaper-ipads-and-macbook-air.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple\u2019s next event may reveal cheaper iPads and MacBook Air<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Electric has tested the world&#8217;s largest jet engine, the\u00a0GE9XTM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":252849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[49521,37789],"class_list":["post-252847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ge9x","tag-general-electric-ge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252855,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252847\/revisions\/252855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}