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The article reports on the manufacturing plan of Boeing for the 747-8. According to the author, the production is centered in Building 40:22 at the wide-body airplane headquarters of the firm in Seattle, Washington and reflects the manufacturing legacy of the airplane. Vice president Paul Nuyen will oversee the manufacturing of 747-8. The company predicts that 60% of the 830 freighters due to enter the market in the next 20 years, from the period of 2011 to 2030, will be new.

The article reports that suppliers for the Boeing 787 are closer to making complete airframe shipments. Presently, all of the aircraft in Building 40-26 at Boeing's Everett, Washington wide-body headquarters are for the flight-test program. The static and fatigue airframes have been moved to their test stands. The first flight airplane, ZA001, has passed the power-on test of its electrical systems and is undergoing specific systems tests. For the 787, Boeing wants wings and fuselages shipped to Everett with hydraulic, mechanical and electrical systems.

After years of half starts, feints and head scratching, Boeing Co. has a new airplane for sale. The decision to back the 7E7 by the company's board of directors was announced just a day shy of the 100th anniversary of man's first powered airplane flight and amounts to a recommitment by the aerospace giant to the heritage that Bill Boeing started here in a red barn in 1916. Boeing will assemble the long-haul, midsized twin-engine aircraft in Everett, Washington State, the home of all its large airframe programs.

The article discusses the highlights of the talks between Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) and International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) officials in Spokane, Washington concerning the striking machinists. Boeing was focused on its proposal for an 11% pay increase, while the union zeroed in on the company's outsourcing policy. BCA's Douglas Kight explained that Boeing needs to respond to changing market conditions by allocating work among its own employees and suppliers.

The article reports on the Employment Resource Center (ERC) in Washington being used by Boeing to train 800 to 1,200 factory workers it expects to employ on its Boeing 787 jet program. It states that graduates of the five-week core curriculum are not guaranteed jobs on the 787 line. Stephen R. Westby, vice president (VP) of Boeing, says that the company expects to hire about 1,100 to fulfill 44 job functions.

The article looks at Washington State governor Chris Gregoire, focusing on her intended discussion of Washington's aerospace industry at the 2011 Salon International de l'aeronautique et de l'espace, an air show held in Paris, France. Gregoire comments on importance of the Boeing company to the economic vitality of Washington State in previous years, mentioning the sales of the Boeing 787 jet.

The article examines economic aspects of the aircraft industry in Washington state, focusing on the decision by Boeing Co. to locate factories for construction of its 787 jet transport in South Carolina rather than in its traditional location of Washington. The effect of the decision on aircraft parts and equipment supply companies, particularly those which are small businesses, which are located in Washington is considered.

The article focuses on the redesign and reconstruction by aircraft industry firm Boeing Co. of a factory for the construction of jet transports in Everett, Washington. Lean manufacturing elements of the factory's overhaul is examined, The factory produced Boeing's widebody jet transports such as the 747 and 787 models.

The article reports on the construction of the first 747-8 Freighter, RC501 in the assembly plant of Boeing in Everett, Washington. It states that while the Airbus A380 is a larger passenger aircraft, the 747-8 is the longest airliner ever built. It notes that the full fuselage join for RC501 began with its nose and forward fuselage sections being positioned far enough in front of its wing to leave room for the aft fuselage assembly.

The article reports that Boeing is preparing for a major revamp of its 747 production line in Everett, Washington to prepare for the start of the upcoming 747-8 freighter assembly. Upgraded hydraulic and electric power systems, which will be used to help test the aircraft during final assembly, are being laid in trenches dug in slant positions in the floor of the 40-21 building. According to 747-8 deputy chief project engineer Michael Teal, the 25% release point milestone will be reached by about the fourth quarter of 2008.

The article reports that Boeing took delivery of all the large fuselage assemblies for the 787 at Payne Field and quickly transferred them next door to the new jet's final assembly line at the company's wide-body headquarters in Everett, Washington. All shipments are carried by converted 747-400 passenger aircraft whose fuselages have been enlarged to three times their normal diameter.

The article reports that Boeing has begun the process of constructing a moving assembly line for its big twin-engine 777s at the company's wide-body aircraft headquarters in Everett, Washington in 2006. Initially, the line is moving at 1.6 in. per minute, and only after the wing-body join is complete and the landing gear have been installed. So the moving assembly line is focused on systems installation, not the major structural buildup.

The article reports on the arrival of the Large Cargo Freighter (LCF) from Boeing in Everett, Washington on September 16, 2006. Three transports have been ordered from Evergreen Aviation Technologies Corp. First major assemblies of fuselage and wings to be transported by LCF are to be fully underway in first-quarter 2007.

This article reports that Boeing Co. is assembling the first of its 737-900ERs aircraft at its Renton factory south of Seattle, Washington. The 180-215-seat aircraft is set for completion in August. This will be followed by a five-month flight test/certification program that begins in September. The fuselage is manufactured by Spirit Aerosystems in Wichita, Kansas.

The article reports that Boeing Co. started the new year with a second 737 moving production line in operation at its Renton, Washington, factory in anticipation of increasing deliveries in 2006. Boeing's 2005 production was consistent with the dampened delivery rates of commercial aircraft in the past three years. The 737 dominated production in 2005 with 212 units. In 1999, Boeing was using three static production lines at its Renton 737 plant, averaging 27 deliveries a month.

This article reports that Boeing Co. moved quickly to end a walkout by its machinists and get its aircraft assembly facilities back to work in a year that has provided the manufacturer with its best airplane-order news since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S. The machinists were expected to endorse a new three-year contract in voting late last week at Boeing's facilities in Puget Sound, Washington; Portland, Oregon; and Wichita, Kansas. Labor and management leaders said that they were at a standstill when Boeing turned to former U.S. House Representative Dick Gephardt, the Missouri Democrat with strong ties to labor, to serve as an intermediary.

The article reports that on October 28, about 5,000 Boeing Co. employees will mark the end of production of the 757 at a ceremony at Boeing's Renton, Washington, plant for aircraft No. 1,050. Boeing is replacing both aircraft with a single family, the 200-300-seat 7E7 that's due to enter the market in 2008. Commercial production of the 767 has slowed to the point that Boeing is counting on a large tanker/transport order from the U.S. Air Force to keep the line going. The 757 and 767 were said to contain more than 40 percent commonality in design and parts.

Washington State won by thinking how it could help Boeing Co. compete with Airbus. State and local government officials, labor leaders and community activists took a "one strategy, one voice" approach to Boeing's announcement in May 2002 that it would hold a U.S. competition for the final assembly site to build the 7E7 airplane. Company president and CEO Harry Stonecipher said the $3.2-billion pledge wasn't the deciding factor, citing the ready availability of Everett, Washington State's experienced workforce and the productivity gains it has made over the past three years.