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...revolutionary way. Rather than send parts to the final assembly site by truck and train for piecemeal manufacturing, Boeing's contractors will build complete component systems (a fully wired wing, say) to be snapped together at final assembly. To speed the process, Boeing will build three 747s to haul the components. "Instead of huge sections of the 7E7 bobbing around the ocean for a month, we can get them to the final assembly site in a day," says Mike Bair, the head of the plane's development program. "It's far more efficient and will save...
Among Pakistan’s urban majority, headscarves—let alone the suffocating burqas—remain the exception. It is a society where, despite all the constraints endemic to poor, conservative cultures, women pilot 747s, run major corporations and become lawyers, judges and politicians. It is an overwhelmingly Muslim land (98 percent) where minorities still become cabinet ministers, supreme court justices and Nobel Prize winners. All this does not take away from the vast discrimination and injustice that exists, but the picture is far more complex than CNN reports would have you believe. The important reality is that...
...There are some 1,400 CF6 engines in use worldwide on planes including Boeing 747s, 767s and Airbus 300s, and there are four thousand CF6-equipped airplane takeoffs each day. It's a common engine, but it has had problems. In a sternly worded report last December, the NTSB warned that the CF6 engines presented a potentially "catastrophic" threat. The NTSB recommended to the FAA that it take action, including a review of the design of the engine's high pressure turbine disc because of a number of dangerous incidents in the past few years...
...International Aviation, based in McMinnville, Ore., whose interests include airplane sales, ground logistics and freight forwarding. The Air Center has done work for America West and cargo carriers such as Atlas Air, which has the largest fleet of 747 freighters in the world. Evergreen also maintains NASA's two 747s, used to haul the space shuttles. And it is one of only a handful of prep centers for Boeing. That means new planes from Boeing's factories are sometimes stored temporarily at Evergreen, then later prepared by Evergreen workers for final delivery to an airline...
...747s have no will to fly since A-Rod left b) It can now get Starbucks anywhere c) It wants to de-centralize business d) Seattle doesn't bring Boeing flowers anymore...