Common core system significantly reduces development cost

December 15, 2014

Evendale, OH - GE Aviation has been selected by The Boeing Company to provide the Common Core System (CCS) and the Enhanced Airborne Flight Recorder (EAFR) for the Boeing 777X aircraft.

'This is a critical win for GE to supply the avionics computing system for the Boeing 777X, building on the success of our common core system on the 787,' said Alan Caslavka, president of Avionics & Digital Systems for GE Aviation. 'With the 787 and now the 777X, we have made future civil and military programs more affordable by resetting the avionics cost curve and doing away with escalating software development costs.'

On Saturday, January 25, 2020, the 777X took off at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, at 10:09 a.m. During the three hour, 51 minute flight ove. ANA used to fly 747-400 with less than 300 seats. Of the 28 777-300ER currently in ANA’s international fleet, 13 have 212 seats, 9 have 250 seats, & 6 have 264 seats. Meanwhile, of the 31 787-9 currently in ANA’s international fleet, 12 have 215 seats & 19 have 246 seats.

Selecting the GE common core system and enhanced airborne flight recorder enables Boeing to bring the latest generation of proven capabilities from the 787 to the 777X. The 777X has 300 orders and commitments from customers Lufthansa, Etihad, Qatar, Emirates, ANA and Cathay Pacific.

The latest systems technology for the 777X will touch two major GE Aviation facilities including the common core system and the enhanced airborne flight recorder from Grand Rapids, Michigan and the remote data concentrators from Cheltenham, United Kingdom.

The CCS is often referred to as the 'central nervous system and brain' of the airplane and hosts the aircraft’s avionics and utilities functions, eliminating several boxes and reducing hundreds of pounds of wire. GE’s CCS on both the 787 and 777X share common components and technologies and can be scaled up or down depending on customer needs. The CCS open system architecture significantly reduces the cost of modifying software so that the developer may only be required to test and certify functions that have been altered.

GE’s EAFR for the 777X will record flight crew audio, parametric flight data, and data link communications. This data is stored in non-volatile, crash-survivable memory located within the EAFR and can be retrieved and analyzed for maintenance or in the event of an aircraft issue. GE’s flight recorders are on thousands of military aircraft as well as on the Boeing 787.

Design of the 777X is underway, and production is set to begin in 2017 with first delivery targeted for 2020. The 777X family includes the 777-8X and the 777-9X. The 777X will be the largest and most efficient twin-engine jet in the world, with 12 percent lower fuel consumption and 10 percent lower operating costs than the competition. Engine supplier GE Aviation was the first partner announced on the program. The GE9X engine will be greater than five percent more efficient than anything in its class.

1. The 777X is a different ball game, it has so many major changes (new wing, engine, fuselage, landing gear, cockpit, tail) that from the start it amazed many the FAA went along. They were probably under a lot of pressure. For the current 777X customer base it is remarkable that all but ANA are introducing A350s.
2. The 777X has 300 orders and commitments from customers Lufthansa, Etihad, Qatar, Emirates, ANA and Cathay Pacific. The latest systems technology for the 777X will touch two major GE Aviation facilities including the common core system and the enhanced airborne flight recorder from Grand Rapids, Michigan and the remote data concentrators from.

GE Aviation, an operating unit of GE (NYSE: GE), is a world-leading provider of jet, turboprop and turboshaft engines, components and integrated systems for commercial, military, business and general aviation aircraft. GE Aviation has a global service network to support these offerings. For more information, visit us at www.ge.com/aviation. Follow GE Aviation on Twitter at http://twitter.com/GEAviation and YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/GEAviation.

ANA (All Nippon Airways) can now see the first of 20 Boeing 777-9 ordered six years ago. And she wants to acquire up to 20,787 additional Dreamliner.

The 777-9 1629 registered JA0171 of the Japanese private company was photographed at Everett on February 24, 2020, without any visible distinctive sign and not yet equipped with its engines. ANA becomes the third operator to have its 777-9 partially assembled, after Emirates Airlines and Lufthansa – the Dubai-based airline to be its launch company in 2021.

The Star Alliance company had finalized in July 2014 an order for $ 13 billion from Boeing, including the twenty 777X but also six 777-300ER fourteen 787-9 Dreamliner – becoming the Dreamliner’s biggest customer with 80 expected. ANA President Shinichiro Ito pointed out that the aircraft chosen « will modernize and extend the fleet, even more, to allow the company to become one of the first airline groups in the world », while allowing maximum flexibility, better fuel savings in order to cope with « the growth in demand both internationally and in the domestic market ».

ANA 777-9 line 1629 JA071A on the Everett flightline pic.twitter.com/lKLvqfNp15

— Paine Airport (@mattcawby) February 24, 2020

ANA currently operates a long-haul passenger fleet of 71 Dreamliner (787-8, -9 and -10), 55 Triple Sept (-200ER and -300ER) and 34,767-300ER, as well as two of the three Airbus A380s expected. Its order book includes among others fifteen additional A321neo, twenty 737 MAX 8 and fifteen Mitsubishi Superjet. And it announced this morning a purchase commitment for twenty additional Boeing – eleven 787-10, four 787-9 and five optional 787-9 which will make it reach the 103 Dreamliner expected according to a press release from the manufacturer.

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