Cover: Portland machinist Thomas Nguyen loads a 747 flap track onto a fixture before it is moved by crane to another workstation. BOB FERGUSON | BOEING Photo: (Far right) Machinist Daniel Jones adjusts tool-length offsets on a boring mill controller. BOB FERGUSON | BOEING TABLE OF CONTENTS 07 LEADERSHIP MESSAGE 08 SNAPSHOT 09 QUOTABLES 10 WHAT WE DO 12 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Douglas Aircraft didn’t make many of them, but its Dolphin flying boat was sold in small batches to the U.S. military. Even Bill Boeing owned one. 16 PACESETTERS Boeing subsidiary Insitu, maker of unmanned systems such as ScanEagle, has grown rapidly during the past decade and now has a new, specially designed facility that is making production faster and more efficient. 22 SHAPING THE FUTURE Boeing Fabrication operates sites from Helena, Mont., to Melbourne, Australia, to Winnipeg, Canada. Each plays a role in converting bulky-shaped metals into flight-critical jetliner parts. The Fabrication site in Portland, Ore., is considered a Boeing Center of Excellence for machining hard metals such as titanium. 32 SAVINGS PLAN Boeing employees say financial planning for their retirement is important, regardless of how far away that might be. 34 MILESTONES 38 IN FOCUS 12 PHOTO: RENE FRANCILLON 16 PHOTO: BOB FERGUSON | BOEING 02 BOEING FRONTIERS
Frontiers April 2015 Issue
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