Steve Wilson | GE Aviation's 500-acre campus off South Miami Boulevard hosts two cavernous assembly buildings for aircraft engines. Steel arms extending down from overhead allow technicians to work on the engines from underneath, and to move and rotate three- and four-ton engines with minimal physical exertion.

GE Aviation is firing up production at its assembly plants in Durham, Cincinnati and several other locations across the nation. The Durham plant, just off Miami Boulevard, is beginning to retool as the company triples its production of GEnx turbofan engines for Boeing Co.’s (NYSE: BA) new 787 Dreamliner. It has also recently expanded production of the giant GE90 engine and several lines of smaller engines, all of which are aimed at replacing older designs that are less fuel efficient.

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