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Does General Electric now have the widest range of aircraft engines in the industry, in thrust terms at least, following the first full engine run of a GE Honda HF120 in Japan?
The HF120 demonstrator reached its maximum 2,095lb thrust on the first run. That is less than 2% of the power output of the GE90-115B, which reached a record-breaking 127,900lb thrust in 2002.
To help you visualise, this is the GE90-115B:
And, to the same scale, this is the HF120:
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