Imagine an American opening his daily paper and finding an article about Boeing Commercial Airplanes that ran something like this. “It was announced to-day that Boeing’s VP for Customers was leaving the company even before its CEO and COO are to swap places later this year as called for by the agreement between the State… Continue reading Incredible story – or is it?
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Aircraft based tools in the fight against runway incursions
Aircraft-based airport surface traffic indications and alerting systems This is an edited version of the presentation made at the recent ESAVS 2010 conference by Doug Arbuckle of the FAA. Coauthors of the paper were David E. Gray of FAA, Peter Moertl of Mitre Corporation and Jim Duke of SAIC. You can download the original text of… Continue reading Aircraft based tools in the fight against runway incursions
Interesting people, unusual flight plans…
Kathleen O’Brien – Houston we have a problem… Kathleen O’Brien is an Associate Technical Fellow with Boeing Commercial Airplanes in Seattle. What were you dreaming of becoming when you were a kid? I loved to read and becoming a librarian looked like a good choice. You know how it is, little girls did not have… Continue reading Interesting people, unusual flight plans…
Boeing 787 Dreamliner takes to the air
Late by 28 months but finally in the air! 15 December 2009 will no doubt be a memorable day for Boeing and the whole industry for that matter: the 787 has finally taken to the air, its maiden flight hopefully bringing an end to the series of problems the program had to contend with over… Continue reading Boeing 787 Dreamliner takes to the air