Macon it happen Employees at this Boeing site in Georgia play vital role producing military aircraft parts By Vineta Plume BEOING FRONTIERS / OCTOBER 2013 37 In the two years that Jared Dillon has been working for Boeing in Macon, Ga., one day still stands out. It’s the day he joined the H-47 Chinook team. “It felt like I found my home,” he said. Dillon builds engine cowlings—doors that cover an engine, similar to the hood of a car— for the Chinook military helicopter. He works mostly by hand, laying out patterns, cutting, sanding, fitting, trimming. Like many of the mechanics at this site, Dillon came up through Quick Start, an intensive two- to three-month training program that teaches Boeing standards. Working first in another area on the site’s shop floor, he was selected to join the Chinook team, where being mechanically inclined and good with his hands helped him catch on quickly to the PHOTO: Boeing Macon’s Derick Moore, a sheet metal mechanic. Bob Ferguson/Boeing
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