PHOTO: BOB FERGUSON | BOEING 30 PHOTO: JIM ANDERSON | BOEING 12 PHOTO: UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE 26 06 Leadership Messages 08 Snapshot 09 Quotables 10 Historical Perspective 12 Fueling change No more lying down on the job for the men and women who will operate the refueling boom on Boeing’s new KC-46A tanker. The aircraft features a state-of-the-art air refueling operator station behind the flight deck. On the KC-135 tankers that the new tanker is replacing, the boom operator has to look out a small window while in a prone position in the tail. 18 Station keeping Orbiting Earth in the harsh environment of space at 5 miles (8 kilometers) per second, the International Space Station originally was expected to last 15 years. As NASA’s prime contractor for the space station, Boeing now is studying ways to keep it operating safely well into the next decade—and perhaps beyond. Also, Boeing engineers are preparing the station for an unusual guest—the Bigelow inflatable habitat module. 26 Showing the way The last of a dozen GPS Block IIF satellites built by Boeing was successfully launched into orbit last month, further bolstering a navigational network that affects nearly every aspect of life on Earth. It all began with the first GPS satellite built by Boeing heritage company Rockwell. 30 Time machine While Boeing is busy building 767-based air refueling tankers for the U.S. Air Force, the commercial version of the jet also has experienced renewed market demand. 35 Customer Profile 36 Trailblazers 39 Milestones 46 In Focus TABL E O F CONTENTS MARCH 2016 | 03 …
Frontiers March 2016 Issue
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