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From YouTube: News Update - GE Aviation Groundbreaking
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GE Aviation has it's groundbreaking ceremony for it's new CMC production plant in Asheville.
B
Having
the
skilled
labor
without
having
the
work
ethic
that
you
have
in
this
county
in
this
region,
ge
wouldn't
have
made
a
decision
to
come
here,
even
though
it's
a
great
quality
of
life,
even
though
there's
no
more
beautiful
place
in
the
world
to
live
without
these
men
and
women
right
here
who
can
actually
build
things
and
fix
things
and
repair
things
and
innovate
things.
I
don't
think
we'd
have
a
top
executive
from
cincinnati
here
today,
making
this
great
announcement.
B
Because
what
we
want,
what
we
want
here
is
more
people
in
blue
and
what
this
announcement
actually
does.
Is
it
basically
says
we're
going
to
have
240
new
people
in
blue
come
work
in
this
area,
and
that
means
from
that
240
we'll
have
other
suppliers
and
while
real
estate
people
make
money
well,
insurance
people
do
well.
Will
construction
industry
do
better.
B
C
Matrix
composites
for
for
those
who
may
not
know
if
you
took
a
coffee
cup
and
dropped
it,
it
would
shatter
you.
You
know
this,
these,
these
materials
don't
do
that
they
have
an
internal
structure
that
allows
them
basically
to
behave
like
a
metal
but
have
the
temperature
capability
and
a
very,
very
lightweight,
compared
with
metal,
so
they're
about
a
third
of
the
way
and
they're
about
many
many
hundred
degrees
higher
in
temperature
capability.
And
what
does
that
mean
for
the
people
who
buy
these
engines?
C
It's
about
a
million
dollars
in
fuel
saving
per
aircraft
when
you
multiply
that
by
the
thousands
and
thousands
of
airplanes
that
are
being
built
being
ordered
on
backlog,
it's
billions
of
dollars
that
these
materials
allow
in
fuel
savings
for
the
airline
fleets
of
the
future.
So
that's
what
this
day
is
really
about:
the
change
from
wood
to
aluminum
the
change
from
propeller
to
jet
change
the
world
as
we
know
it
and
really
transform
the
communities
that
really
didn't
exist
before
then.
C
The
big
cities,
the
big
communities
that
came
up
in
the
in
the
civil
aviation
world
tipping
points
are
usually
not
recognized.
At
the
time,
historians
are
great
at
telling
us
when
something
happened.
I'd
like
you
to
think
of
yourself
as
being
present
when
history
is
made.
Today
is
frankly
a
tipping
point.
There
is
no
other
place
in
the
world
where
the
high
volume
production
of
cmcs
will
happen.
This
is
the
first
such
place.
D
E
Might
have
wondered:
why
did
we
come
in
here
and
pass
the
ge
plant?
What's
that
about
well,
for
various
reasons,
the
ge
plant
site
didn't
work
out
and
the
project
was
going
down
one
degree,
john
creighton
and
the
commissioners.
I
want
you
to
stand
up
and
I'm
going
to
tell
you
what
happened
after
that
stand
up.
Commissioners
on
the
green,
don't
clap
yet
till
you
know
what
it
is.
E
But
what
happened
was
when
that
site
didn't
work
out
for
the
expansion.
These
folks
came
over
here,
knocked
on
the
door
of
old
dominion.
Transport
and
said:
do
you
mind
if
we
buy
your
place
and
move
ge
into
here
and
we'll
fix
you
another
place
somewhere
else
and
then
we'll
swap
with
you
and
call
it
even
how
many
times
does.
F
E
E
Thank
you,
that's
good,
because
they
had
the
guts
to
knock
on
somebody's
door,
a
very
successful
business,
old
dominion
and
say:
would
you
do
something
for
our
community
that
will
make
a
difference
that
will
help
people
that
have
jobs
the
blue
shirts
here,
and
it
will
also
help
other
people
around
north
carolina
keep
their
jobs
because
we
got
a
chance
of
something
special
here.
An
old
dominion
to
their
credit
said
count
us
in.
F
Asheville's
strategic
plan
outlines
commitments
to
fiscal
responsibility,
green
and
sustainable
initiatives,
as
you
can
imagine,
that's
a
big
focus
area
for
asheville
and
job
growth
and
community
development
and
believe
it
or
not.
These
things
are
all
married
to
one
another
and
our
city's
investment
in
ge
aviation,
not
only
fulfills
all
of
these
goals,
but
also
just
makes
good
business
sense.
F
Public-Private
partnerships
are
essential
to
the
health
and
vitality
of
this
community.
We
understand
that
we
appreciate
that
and
we
want
to
continue
working
on
many
more
public-private
partnerships
to
come.
The
city
supports
manufacturing
in
this
community
and
we
recognize
that
capital
and
technology
intensive
manufacturing
investments
within
the
city
limits
are
critical
to
our
success.
A
jet
engine
constructed
using
cmc
materials
can
reduce
fuel
consumption
by
15,
resulting
in
annual
fuel
savings
of
greater
than
1
million
dollars
per
plane.