Biman Bangladesh — commonly known as Biman — has selected GEnx-1B engines to power its two additional Boeing 787 Dreamliners.
The engines are valued at more than $100 million (list price).
GE Aviation has sold more than 2,500 GEnx engines since its launch 15 years ago, ‘solidifying the GEnx as the fastest-selling high-thrust GE engine in history’.
GE says that with “the most advanced technologies and materials, the GEnx has the highest reliability and utilisation, lowest fuel burn and longest range of any engine available on the B787 aircraft.
Furthermore, the highest-pressure-ratio compressor in commercial service today enables the best fuel efficiency in its thrust class, resulting in the GEnx engine powering the longest B787 routes, such as Qantas’s 787-9 record-breaking non-stop flight from New York to Sydney in October.”
GE also says that the GEnx’s lean-burning twin-annular pre-swirl combustor “dramatically reduces NOx and other
regulated gases below today’s regulatory limits and enhances durability; it is also the world’s first commercial engine with both a carbon-fibre composite front fan case and fan blades.”
GEnx’s revenue-sharing participants are IHI Corporation (Japan), GKN Aerospace Engine Systems (UK), MTU (Germany), TechSpace Aero (Safran) (Belgium), Safran Aircraft Engines (France) and Samsung Techwin (Korea).