QUOTABLES “We kind of went from a telephone in the 1960s … almost to current WiFi era from a technology standpoint.” – Boeing B-52 Program Manager Scot Oathout, speaking to Inside the Air Force about how Boeing’s Combat Network Communications Technology, or CONECT, will bring the B-52 bomber into the digital age. Inside the Air Force, April 26 “I’ve taken countless flights during my career at Boeing. But I can tell you the one I took today may be the most special.” – Randy Tinseth, Commercial Airplanes vice president for Marketing, who was among the passengers when Ethiopian Airlines became the first airline in the world to return the 787 Dreamliner to service, on a commercial flight from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Nairobi, Kenya. The 787 fleet had been grounded until a battery issue was fixed. Randy’s Journal, April 27 “It was a full mission success.” – Charlie Brink, X-51A program manager for the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate, after Boeing’s unmanned hypersonic X-51A WaveRider was deployed from a B-52 bomber and then flew above the Pacific Ocean at more than five times the speed of sound in a historic test flight. Los Angeles Times, May 4 BOEING FRONTIERS / JUNE 2013 9
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