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Frontiers December 2014–January 2015 Issue

Northern Canada and Boeing have enjoyed a long and productive journey together by eric fetters-walp As a team of engineers carefully examined a newly produced composite barrel at the Boeing Canada Winnipeg plant, Kyle Advent talked about this airplane part’s importance to the Fabrication site in Manitoba. “This is a pretty big project for us. It’s another step up from what we’ve traditionally done here,” said Advent, a manufacturing engineer at the site. The prototype he and the other engineers were perfecting is the acoustic inner barrel—part of the airplane’s engine 16 Boeing Frontiers nacelle—for the 737 MAX. With more than 2,400 orders for the 737 MAX, this new part adds to the already significant fabrication work performed at the Winnipeg site, including for the 787 Dreamliner. To handle it and other work, Boeing is adding 150,000 square feet (13,900 square meters) to the main production building. “It’s a great sign to see expansion. It means Boeing trusts us to continue making parts and developing new ones,” said Aneta Zacharias, an industrial engineering specialist in Winnipeg. Boeing has a long history of doing business with and within Canada, dating back to 1919 when Bill Boeing and pilot Eddie Hubbard flew mail from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Seattle—the first international airmail to reach the United States. Since then, Canada has been a major customer and partner with Boeing. The company also directly employs about 2,000 Canadians, including over 1,600 in Winnipeg, and thousands more work for Boeing suppliers. Canada and the U.S. are strong allies, sharing the world’s longest common border, and the Photos: (Above) Layup technicians Derek Rebec, left, and Jerlyn Melo prepare a 737 forward strut for layup. (Right) Christos Papagiannopoulos, assembly technician, prepares a completed 787 landing gear door—the largest single part made at the Fabrication plant in Winnipeg—to be lifted into a shipping container. Bo b Fer guson | Boe ing


Frontiers December 2014–January 2015 Issue
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