The long-awaited first flight of Boeing’s 777X will be delayed further thanks to problems with the aircraft’s GE9X engines. A pair of the engines were installed on the airframe and started on May 29, but during the test, “an engine gave us a signal about its health. We had an anomaly in the compressor and we halted the run,” GE’s Ted Ingling told Aviation Week in an interview.
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