GE Aerospace says it delivered more than 50 GEnx-1B engines to Boeing during the quarter that ended September 30, nearly doubling the number handed over in the same quarter a year earlier. Boeing delivered 22 787 Dreamliners to customers during that period. The engine shipments therefore exceeded the airframer’s customer deliveries, a comparison GE’s chief executive Larry Culp cited as evidence that the company is making progress on a supply issue that had become a source of friction between the partners.
The figures are a snapshot of two different stages in an industrial process: engines…