"2009-12-15: BOEING 787 DREAMLINER FIRST FLIGHT @ PAINE FIELD, EVERETT, WA" by JASON TANG from the Seattlest Flickr pool.
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August 23 is Friends and Family Day at Boeing's Everett plant. Visitors with connections get to tour the bigger-than-Disneyland campus, and they might want to take advantage of that this year as opposed to next, because 275 Boeing employees in the Puget Sound area are getting 60-day layoff notices. Those are going to be a busy 60 days if Boeing means to hold to its 787-flies-at-year-end promise to Quantas. more ›

Jon Talton has a great (i.e., it supports our position) piece in the Seattle Times about Boeing "overplaying its hand" with a new South Carolina love-nest. (That Vought plant is a union shop, and SC during a recession isn't in a position to write a lot of incentive checks.) Says Talton: "It's healthy to run a little scared in today's economy as long as you don't run over the edge of a cliff or throw others off. That's the risk with the most strident comments about the bad-business climate here. It's mostly a myth. And, in addition to being divisive because much of it translates into blaming workers or programs that benefit them, it obscures the real competitive issues that face us." Boom! He also presents facts and figures, if you're into that sort of thing. more ›

Yesterday we thought only a huge idiot would really believe Boeing was going to leave its Northwest workforce behind and move to South Carolina. But then Matt the Engineer commented: "Bad news, or perhaps part of the bluff: I just received an e-mail from Boeing letting me know that an engineering job I had applied for has been cancelled. I went back to their site to see if other jobs are available (there used to be a handful), and found absolutely no engineering jobs posted for Washington." more ›

"Boeing stock takes a beating" as engineers work out how to reinforce the spot where the carbon-fiber composite wings meet the fuselage. Not only are people saying it'll delay a first 787 flight by months, but Boeing engineers are hanging their heads low...or privately trash-talking management that ignored the problem for on-time promises: "Although the issue popped up during tests last month, Boeing initially didn't think it would affect the first flight," reports the Everett Herald's Michelle Dunlop. more ›