QUOTABLES “747-8 customers will use roughly 30 fewer trucks of fuel per airplane per year.” —Eric Lindblad, vice president and general manager, 747-8 program, on the first customer delivery of a new 747-8 incorporating the Performance Improvement Package, which includes improved GEnx-2B engines. Boeing News Now, Dec. 18 “We’re starting to do whole new ranges of missions that we never even thought of before.” —U.S. Marine Corps Col. Michael Orr, talking about the capability and flexibility of the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. He flew a V-22 from North Carolina to Boeing’s Philadelphia site on a visit to thank Boeing employees who help build the Osprey. Delaware County Daily Times, Dec. 5 “They know everything is going to be all right when they hear that Apache flying over the horizon.” —U.S. Army Col. Jeffrey Hager, project manager for Apache Helicopters, on the value of the AH-64 Apache to soldiers in combat, during ceremonies marking initial operating capability of the latest version of the Apache, the AH-64E Guardian. (See Snapshot, left.) Boeing News Now, Dec. 1 Frontiers February 2014 09
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