Making jets
Frontiers photographers recently visited Boeing’s
commercial jet-making plants in Renton and Everett, Wash.,
and captured the employee pride, skill and hard work that goes
into making the world’s best commercial jetliners.
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Jim Anderson/BOEING |
A Lion’s roar
Lion Air, based in Jakarta, Indonesia, has a special relationship with Boeing.
It operates an all-Boeing fleet and was the launch customer
for the 737-900ER, an Extended Range model that can carry up
to 215 passengers. It is also one of the launch customers for
the new 737 Boeing Sky Interior. Lion Air is celebrating its
10th anniversary in June and has become the airline of choice
in Indonesia, flying to more than 36 destinations across Indonesia
and the Asia-Pacific region.
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 BUDHY ASHARY |
Partners in flight
In 1960, the German airline Lufthansa took delivery of a
Boeing 707 -- and entered the jet age. In the half-century
that followed, Boeing and Lufthansa have enjoyed a special
working-together relationship, and it is one that will continue.
Late next year, Lufthansa is scheduled to take delivery,
as the launch customer, of the first Boeing
747-8 Intercontinental.
As Jim Albaugh, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes,
put it: "Every airplane we've ever built has Lufthansa
in it."
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 JOeRG MUeLLER |
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