GE says it has shaved 136kg, or 3%, off the weight of an engine that propels the Boeing 787 using a ceramic-composites fan case and blade, a world first.

通用电气表示，他们成功地将发动机重量减轻了3%，约136千克，此举促使波音787世界首次使用合成陶瓷风扇机箱和涡轮叶片。

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In 2009 GE, working with NASA, America’s space agency, picked up work it had largely set aside in the 1980s on a radically different sort of engine called an unducted fan.

2009年，通用电气和NASA（美国航空航天总署）合作，重新开始19世纪80年代搁置的一项工作，继续一种颠覆传统的无涵道风扇发动机实验。

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