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Frontiers December 2015 - January 2016 Issue

56 PHOTO: BOB FERGUSON | BOEING PHOTO: BOEING ARCHIVES 12 07 LEADERSHIP MESSAGE 08 SNAPSHOT 09 QUOTABLES 12 SQUEEZING LIGHT At a Boeing lab in El Segundo, Calif., engineers are taking the early but significant technological steps in what could be a transformation of communications, on Earth as well as from deep space. It’s called Lasercom. 18 MAXIMUM TEAMWORK  The first 737 MAX, which will bring a new level of single-aisle efficiency and capability for airline customers, had its coming-out party in December for employees at the Renton, Wash., factory. This Frontiers photo essay captures the journey of the first MAX airplane as it made its way through assembly, starting with the arrival of the first fuselage by rail car. 40 ROOTS OF INNOVATION The connection between Boeing and Germany goes back to company founder William Boeing’s father, Wilhelm Böing, who was born in Hagen-Hohenlimburg and emigrated to the U.S. in 1868. Today, Germany is home to world-class manufacturing and automation technology that is helping shape Boeing’s future. 46 TRANSFORMERS Nearly a half-century after Boeing started building its 747 assembly factory in Everett, Wash., the company is making another huge investment at the site as it prepares to make 777X airplanes. It already assembles the 787, 777, 767, 747 and KC-46 tanker there. 49 FROM THE GROUND UP Inside the 737 Configuration Studio in Renton, Wash., the only things that take off are ideas. Airlines come to this facility to choose cabin designs, equipment and fixtures for their new Boeing single-aisle jets. Or they can use the products and features to retrofit existing fleets. 52 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 55 CUSTOMER PROFILE 56 TRAILBLAZERS Meet six of the Project Mercury engineers from McDonnell Aircraft who helped design and develop the capsule that first carried U.S. astronauts into space in the 1960s, setting the course for landing on the moon. 60 MILESTONES 66 IN FOCUS TABLE OF CONTENTS 40 PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK 02 BOEING FRONTIERS


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