General Electric GE90-115B Engine - The Best In the World

This is my 1000th video on YouTube. I wanted to celebrate by making a video of my favorite aircraft engine, the GE90-115B. The fan is an advanced, larger diameter unit made from composite materials and is the first production engine to feature swept rotor blades. Although the larger fan in itself would produce a higher static thrust, an increase in core size and, thereby core power, was required to improve the net thrust at normal flight speeds. In October 2003, a Boeing 777-300ER broke the ETOPS record