Snapshot DREAM LINE: Three 787s are shown on the production line in the Everett, Wash., factory last month. Boeing employees in Everett and in North Charleston, S.C., now are producing Dreamliners at a rate of five per month. The program is on track to achieve a planned 10-per-month rate by late 2013. PHOTO: GAIL HANUSA/BOEING Quotables “What I’ve seen so far is passionate people who want to deliver a jet to the warfighter.” – Maj. Gen. John Thompson, Air Force Tanker Program executive officer and KC-46 program director. See story on Page 36 for more on Boeing’s 767 tanker program. “It was a very quiet cabin. The quietness really stood out for me.” – A passenger on the inaugural flight from Houston to Chicago of United Airline’s 787 Dreamliner. Chicago Tribune, Nov. 5. 8 BOEING FRONTIERS / DECEMBER 2012–JANUARY 2013
Frontiers December 2012/January 2013 Issue
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