GE-Powered 787 ETOPS Tests To Start In July

By Guy Norris .

General Electric says flight test progress on the GEnx-1B-powered Boeing 787 gives it confidence that combined ETOPS and functional and reliability (F&R) evaluations will start in mid-July.

The two GEnx-1B test aircraft (ZA005 and ZA006) have amassed some 1,560 engine flight hours and 1,150 engine flight cycles. Boeing, which counts entire flights rather ...

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