GE & MoMA
I am a confirmed GE brat. Indoctrinated at an early age. I was raised in a GE household. Every single one of my father’s paychecks since before I was born has come from GE. Except for clock radios, which division they sold off a long time ago, I buy all of my small appliances and things like that– right down to my lightbulbs– from GE. Someday when I have a house and buy appliances, they will be from GE. I was in the GE Explorer scouts program and won an award for scout of the year. I interned at GE two summers in a row. I do my banking through GE. I am a born and bred GE customer.
That said, and my bias taken into account, I still think that anyone would agree that their latest gig is pretty cool. The Museum of Modern Art in NYC (for those of you not particularly up on these things that is the big white one that’s kinda spiral-shaped) just put in a fan blade from a GE90 engine (the largest and most prolific jet engine in the world) in their “Architecture & Design” collection. The GE90 engine is big enough that my twin sister could stand in it, with me on her shoulders, and we would fit inside. It is the sort that they put on great big Airbuses and Boeing 747s. The nacelle (casing around the engine) is white, and the blade is black and curvy, so I think it really is a quite beautiful thing to look at. Pretty spiffy! Check it out:
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“MoMA chose to feature the GE90 blade for both its innovative design and
inherent beauty. With its unique curved design and four-foot build, the
fan
blade is unprecedented in size. It is also the only composite fan blade
in
commercial aviation, resulting in its distinct black color.
Like many works of modern architecture, the GE90 fan blade’s form
follows
its function. Using 3-D aerodynamic computer design tools, GE engineers
modeled the blades to pull massive amounts of air into the engine while
operating at low noise levels. The artistic, curved design serves a key
function: to enable the fan blades to withstand supersonic airwaves
generated during flight.
To highlight GE’s contribution to MoMA’s reopening, a full-page
advertisement will be featured in The New York Times on Friday, Nov. 19
and
in The Wall Street Journal on Monday, Nov. 22.”
