Boeing CEO Jim McNerney then spoke of the advantages of the new jetliner and introduced Brokaw, who called the 787 "a rock star of the future" and announced the 677 orders.
On March 2, 1969, the world's first supersonic jetliner took to the skies.
Despite a skillful pilot, 23 die in a jetliner blaze The Air Canada DC-9 was approximately 25 miles northwest of Cincinnati when controllers at the Federal Aviation.
Airbus sets A350 maiden flight for Friday: source PARIS (Reuters) - European planemaker Airbus has set Friday June 14 as the date for the maiden flight of its A350 passenger jet, a source familiar with the plans said on Tuesday. Europe's first carbon-composite jetliner, developed at an estimated cost of $15 billion, is designed to compete with U.S. rival Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and targets a market valued at several hundred billion dollars in ...
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Boeing executive sees room for higher plane production PARIS (Reuters) - Boeing sees room for an increase in long-term production rates for the most popular category of airliner, a senior executive said on Tuesday as the U.S. planemaker revised up its forecast for jetliner demand over the next 20 years. Randy Tinseth, vice president for marketing at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, became the latest industry executive to look beyond the financial crisis ...
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A conversation with Cindy Hoover Cindy Hoover heads up Spirit AeroSystems’ 737 MAX program – a program that incorporates significant changes into Boeing’s popular single-aisle commercial jetliner.
June 9, 2013 - The Wichita Eagle
Curt Weldon in The Delaware County Times It was only a few years ago that the Philadelphia International Airport completed the construction of the jetliner runway that I am now being told is also obsolete,Weldon said. "I am concerned for any resident of Pennsylvania whose quality...
Leonard Pitts in Chicago Tribune Columnist Leonard Pitts wrote, "On Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a student from Nigeria, allegedly tried to blow up a jetliner bound for Detroit" ("The struggle for security; Questions, sure, but not these," Commentary, Jan. 6).