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Frontiers May 2016 Issue

PHOTO: BOB FERGUSON | BOEING TABL E O F CONTENTS 18 PHOTO: BOB FERGUSON | BOEING 12 PHOTO: BOB FERGUSON | BOEING 38 06 Leadership Message 08 Snapshot 09 Quotables 10 Historical Perspective 12 Sweating the metal Go behind the scenes of the ongoing 737 MAX flight-test program, where the aircraft are pushed to the limit, and then some. 18 Desert bloom In the high desert of New Mexico, at Boeing’s site in Albuquerque, scientists and engineers are continually looking for ways to enhance modern civilization and military technologies. And at the nearby Starfire Optical Range, Boeing and the U.S. Air Force are jointly experimenting with lasers to better monitor man-made objects in orbit, much of it space debris. 28 Solar explorer  A wholly owned Boeing subsidiary, Spectrolab has provided electric power to more than 600 satellites and delivered more than 4 million solar cells for communications, science and defense needs. It also provides 80 percent of the helicopter-mounted searchlights used by U.S. law enforcement. 34 Great and small The Boeing AH-6 Little Bird, a light attack and reconnaissance helicopter, packs a lot of capability for its size. It is made at the Boeing site in Mesa, Ariz., alongside the bigger Apache. 38 Irish eyes are smiling Ryanair recently took delivery of its 400th 737-800, and a writer and photographer from Frontiers were on board for the flight to Ireland. 44 Strike dynasty Boeing’s new Harpoon Block II Plus is a network-enabled variant that can receive and transmit communications while in flight, allowing it to change course to strike a different target, even a moving target. 46 Trailblazers 49 Customer Profile 50 Milestones 54 In Focus 02 | BOEING FRONTIERS


Frontiers May 2016 Issue
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