Snapshot wE OwN ThE NIGhT: Two Boeing F/A-18 Hornets stand at the ready in an ordnance loading area at Royal Australian Air Force Base Darwin during Exercise Pitch Black 2012, held in July and August. For more than 20 years, the RAAF has conducted the biennial air com- bat training activity, traditionally using bases and training areas in the country’s Northern Territory. Participating this year were more than 2,200 personnel and 100 aircraft from Australia, Singapore, Thailand, New Zealand, Indonesia and the United States. This was the first time Australia’s Boeing-built F/A-18 Super Hornets and Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning & Control aircraft took part. PhOTO: AuSTRAlIAN dEFENCE Quotables “There isn’t a person on “There’s a ton of new the shop floor who doesn’t technology on the 787… stop to listen every time an It’s kind of like a sports F-15 takes off.” car in the sky.” – Bob Southerland, an F-15 sheet metal assembler riveter at – Phil Derner, founder of the aviation news site NYCAviation.com, Boeing’s plant in St. Louis, talking about the pride he and his talking about the passenger buzz and excitement surrounding fellow workers have in the jet fighter they make. The F-15 Eagle Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner. CNN, Aug. 31. made it first flight 40 years ago. See story, Page 36. 8 BOEING FRONTIERS / OCTOBER 2012
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