Boeing

What’s in a name? It turns out, quite a lot. Boeing released an artist’s rendering of its next-generation twin-aisle commercial jetliner at the Paris Air Show this week, giving the world an early look at the planemaker’s “middle-market airplane” – what everybody is justifiably already referring to as the Boeing 797. Boeing doesn’t launch new […]

A U.S.-based aerial firefighting company played a key role in helping to contain the deadly wildfires that have devastated Chile for weeks. Global SuperTanker said as of Friday its Boeing 747 had dropped more than 670,000 gallons of water on the fires and had set a single-day record for liquid dropped by a land-based aerial […]

Four aerospace projects and accomplishments are competing for the 2016 Robert J. Collier Trophy, awarded annually by the National Aeronautic Association “for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America.” The 2016 nominees are Blue Origin New Shepard, Boeing’s 737 Max, Dassault Aviation’s FalconEye Combined Vision System and the U.S. Air Force 212th Rescue […]

It’s the end of an era for one of the most iconic airliners ever to take to the sky. United Airlines announced Wednesday that it plans to retire its fleet of Boeing 747s by the end of the year. The airline had previously set that goal for the end of 2018. The 747 has been […]

Shares of Boeing dropped nearly $2 on Tuesday after Donald Trump tweeted that its contract for two Air Force One jets should be canceled due to “out of control” costs. Trump later told reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower, “I think Boeing is doing a little bit of a number. We want Boeing to […]

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Fans of one of the most picturesque — and hair-raising — landings anywhere are lamenting the end of an era. Dutch carrier KLM will no longer fly the Boeing 747 to St. Maarten Airport. Beginning on October 30, the flights will be operated by the smaller, though still pretty cool, Airbus A330 instead. The landings […]

For Richard Johnson, the path to a career at Boeing took patience and time-management skills. The production pilot worked as a flight instructor while simultaneously earning his engineering degrees before landing his job. Now, the sun is always shining at 41,000 feet in Seattle for the engineer and pilot. See what kind of advice Johnson […]

Boeing announced that it is issuing a series of grants totaling $6 million to educational institutions in Washington state. While the donation is generous, there is a strategy behind the company’s benevolence. Boeing is preparing for a major retirement wave in its Washington-based facilities and is therefore getting involved to ensure that there will be […]

Boeing has teamed up with Swedish Saab AB, designer of the Gripen multi-mission fighter jet, to produce a military jet trainer designed to compete for the U.S. Air Force T-X contract. The contract is expected to include an order of at least 350 jets worth billions of dollars to replace more than 400 existing T-38 […]