Company Watch - Boeing.For more company data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm May 22, 2006 Boeing will build 737s for Navy program. Boeing will start building 737 jetliners for the Navy in 2007 as part of the Multimission Maritime Aircraft program. The program could become a model program to build tankers for the Air Force. Boeing is competing for that contract now. May 19, 2006 Boeing selected Smiths Aerospace to supply the thrust reverse actuator A mechanism that causes a device to be turned on or off, adjusted or moved. The motor and mechanism that moves the head assembly on a disk drive or an arm of a robot is called an actuator. See access arm. system for the 747-8. The system will be similar to the one Smiths provides for the 777 and will be designed and manufactured in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , with deliveries expected to begin in the second quarter of 2007. Smiths said potential sales for the program could exceed $100 million. The dash 8's thrust reverser system is being produced by Middle River Aircraft Systems. May 18, 2006 Boeing will install Class 3 Electronic Flight Bags Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) is an electronic information management device that helps flight crews perform flight management tasks more easily and efficiently with less paper. on 10 new Jet Airways Jet Airways (India) Ltd. is an airline based in Mumbai, India, operating domestic and international services. It operates over 330 daily flights to 50 destinations across the country and 6 overseas. 777-300ERs. Aircraft delivery is scheduled to start early next year. Jet will be the first Indian carrier to operate a Class 3 EFB EFB Electronic Flight Bag (aircraft/crew computing device) EFB European Federation of Biotechnology EFB English for Business EFB Esbjerg Forenede Boldklubber (Esbjerg, Denmark soccer club) . May 18, 2006 Boeing reaches settlement to end two investigations. Boeing said it will pay $615 million to end three years of federal investigations into two cases. The investigations involve the illegal hiring of an Air Force official and the use of a competitors documents to win a contract. May 16, 2006 Boeing boosted the range of the 747-8 from 8,000 nm. to 8,300 nm. after the latest round of wind-tunnel testing, which included high- and low-speed lines development and fine-tuning of the noise characteristics on the fully integrated airframe. More than 3,000 hr. of wind-tunnel time have been logged to date. The recent series of four major tests ran simultaneously at three wind tunnels in Seattle--the Boeing Transonic transonic in ultrasonography, the complete transmission of sound so the image appears black; anechoic; echolucent. Wind Tunnel, the Low Speed Acoustic Facility and the Nozzle Test Facility--and at the QinetiQ tunnel in Farnborough. Boeing VP and 747-8 Program Manager Jeff Peace said in Sydney that the 747-8 Intercontinental is "capable of carrying full passengers from Dallas to either Sydney or Melbourne," key markets for Qantas and its codeshare oneworld partner American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the . Qantas has been mulling mulling (mul´ing), n the final step of mixing dental amalgam; a kneading of the triturated mass to complete the amalgamation. the 777-200LR for that route but the range gains on the 747-8 provide an attractive alternative. The dash 8 also can fly nonstop Sydney-New York. May 15, 2006 Boeing raises list prices for jetliners. Boeing has boosted prices for its jetliners an average of 4%. Separately, an analysis has suggested the cost of modernizing electronics of Boeing's C-130 military transport plane has grown by 130%, putting the contract in danger of being canceled. May 15, 2006 General Electric said it finalized the architectural design This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. for the version of the GEnx that will power the 747-8. Completion of this milestone, referred to as "Tollgate 6" in GE's new product nomenclature, "begins the detailed design phase of the engine." It will feature a 105-in. fan compared to 111 in. for the 787 and will be rated at 66,500 lb. thrust versus 75,000 lb. maximum takeoff thrust for the 787. Certification testing for 747-8 variant will begin next year with flight-testing aboard the 747-8 scheduled for late 2008. May 16, 2006 Boeing GoldCare aims to take MRO MRO In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Mauritanian Ouguiya. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. , supply chain burden off 787 customers. When Boeing begins delivering 787s to airlines in 2008, it expects to deliver something else as well: A total maintenance and supply chain solution that will permit operators to focus entirely on flying the airplane. May 15, 2006 |
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