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Production of 747 and 777 planes to gear up
NEW YORK -- Boeing Co. will speed up production plans for its 777 and 747 models in anticipation of greater demand from commercial airlines.
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Boeing says 787 testing is going well
MINNEAPOLIS — Boeing is putting its new 787 through an aggressive flight-testing schedule, with the fourth plane set to begin test flights on Sunday.
Boeing says it needs to fly the test planes a total of about 90 hours per week to run through the tests needed to deliver the plane by the end of this year.
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Boeing's positive impact felt across the state
HILTON HEAD ISLAND — South Carolina officials have hailed Boeing's plans to build an assembly plant for its 787 Dreamliner in North Charleston as the biggest economic development project in state history.
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Ford, Gilliard focus on jobs
Equal opportunity dialogue established
COLUMBIA -- Extra care is being taken to ensure that minorities and women have an equal chance to benefit from Boeing Co.'s expansion in North Charleston.
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Boeing suppliers could be 10-to-15
Boeing Co. won't be nailed down on the specific number of suppliers that could follow its 787 Dreamliner assembly plant to the Charleston area, but another Fortune 500 business that's almost certainly working to provide factory sites to those vendors has aired its own guesstimate.
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Boeing plant question: Who will pay for roads?
New study makes traffic suggestions, but issue of funding still unresolved
The prospect of thousands of jobs coming to the new Boeing Co. jet assembly plant is accelerating the need to make major road improvements to ease the growing traffic congestion around Charleston International Airport.
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Colleges might get deal on space
N. Charleston offers site for Boeing Co. training
The city of North Charleston wants to give the South Carolina technical college system a cut-rate deal on office space the state needs to train Boeing Co. employees.
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Weighing deal's costs, benefits
The 787 assembly line that Boeing Co. is building in North Charleston could lift some area residents out of poverty while adding $23 million in expansion costs to local school districts.
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Freighter's first flight flourishes
Company's largest plane takes off a year later than planned
EVERETT, Wash. — Boeing Co.'s giant 747-8 freighter — the biggest plane the company has ever built — successfully completed its first flight Monday, a year later than originally planned.
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Biggest ever Boeing 747 taking to the sky
The biggest jumbojet Boeing has ever made is scheduled to lift off Monday on its first test flight at Paine Field at Everett.
The 747-8 is 250 feet long — 18 feet longer than current jumbo 747s.
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Work force swells at plants
787 manufacturer to boost local fuselage production rate
Boeing Co. has brought in hundreds of extra workers to help piece together the 787 fuselage sections at its North Charleston campus.
The local head count has surged, increasing to 3,000 workers from about 2,200 last summer, as part of a push to bring the company's two neighboring fuselage plants up to a quicker production rate, said Boeing Charleston spokeswoman Candy Eslinger.
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Inside the Dreamliner
Boeing 787 cabin mockup reveals upgraded windows, typical airline seating and legroom
SEATTLE — Boeing showed off the interior of a 787 Dreamliner parked at Paine Field and provided a glimpse of some advances on the 787 assembly line inside the factory.
The partial passenger cabin installed in Dreamliner No. 3 will be used to test elements of the passenger experience, including air flow, noise levels and the heating and emergency oxygen systems.
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Boeing package signed
Deal spells out minimum employment numbers
Consider it the final handshake. Boeing Co. executives and state officials have signed off on the state incentive agreement that paves the way for the aerospace giant's future $750 million 787 Dreamliner plant in North Charleston.
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Area faces tough competition for supplier jobs
Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner assembly line came with the hope of hundreds of supplier jobs that will crop up to support the aerospace giant as it pieces together the new passenger jets in North Charleston. But those jobs aren't necessarily coming to the Lowcountry.
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Stall High School to open academy
Boeing gives school district $50,000 grant for project
The benefits spurred by Boeing's expansion in the Lowcountry will be tangible to Charleston County students this fall with the opening of a new aeronautics academy on the Stall High School campus.
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