Quotables “I wonder who the crazy ones are now.” — Chris Browne, chief operating officer of Germanybased TUI Group, who in 2005 was told she was “crazy” for placing orders for a Boeing airplane still in development—the 787. The leisure travel company, which owns six airlines in Europe, now has 13 787-8s and just ordered its first 787-9. Brown said passengers are booking travel just so they can fly on the 787. Boeing News Now, Aug. 11 “Never have we had the ability to attack the electronic spectrum the way this airplane will do.” — Air Marshal Geoff Brown, former chief of the Royal Australian Air Force, at the delivery ceremony in St. Louis for the first of 12 Boeing EA-18G Growlers for Australia, the only country other than the U.S. to operate the advanced electronic warfare aircraft. Flightglobal, July 29 “My kids got to be on first-name basis with (astronauts).” —Carole Eitzen, who worked as a graphic artist at NASA Johnson Space Center supporting the Apollo program in the years leading up to the moon landings. Read her story, and those of other employees, industry colleagues and enthusiasts, on Boeing’s centennial story sharing website at boeing.com/our-stories. Sbeeempt r 2015 09
Frontiers September 2015 Issue
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