Advance Boeing Australia is a model for the company’s international business strategy By Ashley Johnson | PHOTOS by TIM Reinhart When Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator 787 took to the skies from Seattle last year, some of the innovation and technology tested on the airplane reached all the way to Fishermans Bend in Melbourne, Australia. That’s where Boeing Aerostructures Australia makes the movable control surfaces on the trailing edge of the composite wings of the 787 Dreamliner using a technology called resin infusion. And that’s also where Boeing Australia’s research division, working with Commercial Airplanes Product Development and Boeing Canada Winnipeg, applied lessons from that endeavor to use resin infusion for the Photo: A view from Sydney Harbour showing the Sydney Opera House, left, and city skyline. 40 Boeing Frontiers
Frontiers August 2015 Issue
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