Snapshot GO FOR lAuNCh: With steam from the catapults rising over the flight deck, the crew of the USS John C. Stennis prepares to launch a Boeing F/A-18 Hornet from the Nimitz-class carrier in late June. A Boeing team recently visited the carrier off the coast of San Diego to observe flight-deck operations and understand challenges to operating unmanned aircraft from a carrier deck alongside manned jet fighters. Boeing is developing an Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike, or UCLASS, aircraft. PhOTO: u.S. NAVy Quotables “It will be really sweet to “We are setting the standard celebrate 100 years as in the continent.” a company with the – Ethiopian Airlines Chief Executive Officer Tewolde GebreMariam first flight of CST-100.” revenue service with the 787. USA Today, Aug. 16on being the first African airline—and third in the world—to start – John Elbon, Boeing vice president and general manager of Space Exploration, talking to reporters after NASA announced last month that Boeing was selected to continue developing a seven-person spaceship, the Crew Space Transportation, or CST-100. The spacecraft is expected to be ready for test flights by 2016, which is also when Boeing celebrates its 100th birthday. Los Angeles Times, Aug. 4 8 BOEING FRONTIERS / SEPTEMBER 2012
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