General Electric Takes On The Turboprop Market
Although air flows through the H80 from the rear to the front, with the two exhausts located just behind the propeller, it is a compact straight-flow design with no complex flow-reversal sections.
Although air flows through the H80 from the rear to the front, with the two exhausts located just behind the propeller, it is a compact straight-flow design with no complex flow-reversal sections.

General Electric is ranked as one of the world’s leading aero engine manufacturers, with a $20 billion business powering airliners, fighters and many other types of aircraft around the world, plus servicing and systems provision. Currently just $400 million of that annual business comes from the Business and General Aircraft (BGA) division, but the company has plans to dramatically expand in that sector, and in so doing is taking on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 family that currently dominates the marketplace.

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