QUOTA B L ES “We’ll do the next 100 in half the time.” —Beverly Wyse, vice president and general manager of Boeing South Carolina, at ceremonies for delivery of the site’s 100th 787 Dreamliner. The South Carolina plant delivered its first 787 in October 2012. Between its South Carolina and Everett, Wash., factories, Boeing will be delivering 12 787s a month by midsummer. Reuters, Feb. 16 “This plane has a personality like no other.” — Alexandre De Juniac, president of the Air France–KLM Group. Air France recently retired the last of its 747 passenger jets, but KLM still operates the passenger plane, as do many other international carriers, including United, Lufthansa, Japan Airlines, British Airways and Singapore Airlines. Bloomberg, Jan. 14 “I served 24 years in the U.S. Submarine Service … I could not have a ‘normal’ job. I needed something bigger, something profound. Boeing was that.” — John Camara, an Electrical Engineering systems design engineer for the Space Launch System. Read his story and those of others on Boeing’s centennial story sharing website at boeing.com/our-stories. MARCH 2016 | 09
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