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August 24, 2009
Worry Not, Dreamliner Customers: Boeing Is Totally Going to Release a New Schedule Later This Quarter
About that Dreamliner...the last two roll-outs required roll-ins and the fuselage may be wrinkled and require, in Boeing parlance, "side-of-body modifications" (which means the wings don't attach right)--but Boeing says it is totally going to release a new flight schedule for it by the end of ... More >>
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August 26, 2009
Just the Tip: Boeing Just Planning in South Carolina, Just to See What It's Like
Feel free to add labor contract brinkmanship to the endless, Sisyphian saga of the Dreamliner. As expected, Boeing's applying for a permit to open a second line of production on the beleaguered plane in Charleston, South Carolina. That doesn't mean the line will be there, says Boeing, only ... More >>
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August 27, 2009
"Game-Changing" Dreamliner to Fly This Year, Boeing Says
At this point, it's pretty much the aerospace giant that cried wolf, but despite false-starting more frequently than teenage boys on prom night, Boeing says that this time it's for real: the Dreamliner will fly by the end of the year and be delivered to customers by the end of 2010, a mere 30 ... More >>
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September 9, 2009
It's Force-Feeding Time, and Someone's (Not) Hungry for Some More Boeing Planes
How you like them transport planes, birdie?The Air Force said it already has enough Boeing C-17s. The Pentagon said it didn't want anymore C-17s. (These are not entities known for their fiscal restraint, mind you.) So what did Congress do? Give them some more C-17s! Thus, the military/industr ... More >>
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September 15, 2009
Everyone Loves R-71
Now available in a onesy.Now that it's on the ballot for sure, the endorsements are piling in for R-71, the measure whose passage would enact the domestic partnership law the legislature passed earlier this year. A look at the Approve R-71 page provides a long list of endorsers, to whom were ... More >>
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September 17, 2009
What's "Justice" Got to Do With the Boeing/Airbus Tanker Battle?
Hey, he got more!In case you didn't know, Boeing and Airbus are battling to win a tanker contract from the US government. Boeing's supporters, like Patty Murray, are crying foul over the subsidies Airbus gets from European countries--subsidies deemed illegal in a preliminary ruling by the Wor ... More >>
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October 6, 2009
Bad News for Boeing, Vol. XIV
Last week Boeing filed for building permits in South Carolina, with Gov. Chris Gregoire seemingly resigned to the fact that Dreamliner production may eventually fly east. Now today comes a one-two punch of more bad news. Just as demand is decreasing for its 747, so too is the cost to make it ... More >>
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October 27, 2009
5 Things South Carolina Can Offer Boeing That Washington Can't
Rampant illiteracy means Boeing can save on signage. Finally, South Carolina ignorance pays off!In the next two weeks, Boeing will make a decision that will have enormous consequences for the future of two different states. Everett, Washington and Charleston, South Carolina are the two finali ... More >>
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October 28, 2009
Boeing Source to Times: Dreamliner Likely Headed for South Carolina
Oh Dreamliner, we hardly knew ye.No matter your thoughts on South Carolina -- whether they be reasonable and nuanced or stereotypical and just-for-yuks -- it seems Boeing has made up its mind. According to Dominic Gates in today's Seattle Times, talks between Boeing and their machinist's unio ... More >>
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October 28, 2009
Breaking: Boeing Dreamliner Headed to South Carolina
That's the word from Jon Ostrower at Flight Blogger. Ostrower's scoop comes courtesy of a release from Snohomish Country Executive Aaron Reardon.The Boeing Company's announcement to locate a second 787 line in North Charleston, S.C., signals that other states want what we have - a strong manufacturi ... More >>
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October 29, 2009
Boeing, South Carolina, and the Race to the Bottom
Buh-ByeBoeing's announcement that it will locate its 787 final-assembly plant in South Carolina has led to predictable condemnation of Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire. It seems she just didn't do enough to kowtow to the aerospace giant. Republicans, who portray themselves as stout protecto ... More >>
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October 29, 2009
Seattle Blogs: Blame Boeing
Redeemable only for large aeronautics companies.Surveying the blogtropolis from the comfort of an office nook. - HorsesAss says all scapegoating for Boeing's departure should now be forwarded to 1 Dreamliner Way, Charleston, South Carolina. - CrossCut's David Brewster sees the Boeing loss a ... More >>
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October 29, 2009
Comment of the Day: South Carolina Schadenfreude
FlickrIt doesn't get much worse than taking crap from a state that proudly calls itself home to the cocks.Reader Lowcountry Native responds to Attention, Boeing Protectionists: Charleston Not Entirely Overrun By Racist Rubes. He earns points for making his mockery concise and legible, unlike ... More >>
News
November 4, 2009
Boeing's Race to the Bottom
Washington state still has an unfortunate habit of paying workers a decent wage.
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November 11, 2009
Olympia Legislators: Screwed No Matter What They Do on Labor Issues
Being a donkey has its challenges.Managing the conflicting agendas of labor and business--both of them critical campaign contributors--is always a contortionist exercise in the state legislature. But it's likely to be even more uncomfortable in the state house this coming session. As today's ... More >>
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November 17, 2009
Irish Bookies Bet on Boeing Dreamliner to Fly First
Tony the Bookie will gladly take action on Boeing. After all, business is business.God bless the Irish. More specifically, god bless the Irish who think that nothing is too weird to wager on. Paddy Power, the country's largest bookmaker, is now taking bets on which airline will be the first ... More >>
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November 19, 2009
Terrified South Carolinians Will Be Ruled by Boeing Overlords Now Equipped With Lasers!
You want Boeing? You want those low-paying, non-union jobs building the new 787 Dreamliner? Well guess what else you get, South Carolina? Drone-killing lasers, that's what! Bow down to your new corporate rulers, give them more tax breaks, or they will incinerate you with a device so fearsome ... More >>
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November 24, 2009
GM Hands Boeing Perfect Opportunity to Restore Company Goodwill
Saab--to be reborn from a maker of jets?We, along with every other editorial voice in the Northwest, have repeatedly bashed Boeing for opting to build its 787 Dreamliner in South Carolina. But now struggling General Motors is handing Boeing a perfect PR gesture to earn the goodwill of enginee ... More >>
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November 27, 2009
Dubai Debt Threatens Boeing
Dubai, the very picture of modesty and moderation, feels the credit crunch.Have global economy. Have global economic problems. Boeing's recent move to South Carolina may have saved the jet-maker a couple bucks on non-union labor. But it looks like that money might be needed immediately now t ... More >>
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December 7, 2009
Reader: I'll Wait a Year Before Flying the Dreamliner
Courtesy of BoeingWhat if Boeing offered you a free business class upgrade, Sharon?Reader Sharon responds to Boeing 787 Dreamliner to Fly on December 18th. Proud as she is, she says overseas production will keep her off a 787 for at least 12 months. "It will be great to see this plane in the ... More >>
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January 4, 2010
Boeing Now Hiring "Cyber Ninjas"
Must be stealthy, versed in the black art of sabotage and fluent in Java.Just as the life of a Seattle-area machinist gets ever more tenuous, the demand for a more technically proficient brand of Boeing worker rises. Reports the New York Times:For a regional competition last spring, eight stu ... More >>
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January 12, 2010
Video: 60 Minutes on Boeing's Border Failure
Watch CBS News Videos Online In 2006, Boeing won a multibillion-dollar contract to completely revamp the way America protects its borders. One year later, some were already claiming the defense giant's attempts to construct a "virtual fence" across the Mexican border a "high-tech fiasco." 14-minut ... More >>
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January 13, 2010
Boeing Wins Contract For Environmental Cleanup, Sues The State Because Cleanup Is Too Hard
Attention Boeing Execs: This is not a compelling legal argumentAs any competent public relations expert will tell you, accepting $15.9 million in federal stimulus money for "environmental monitoring" at a site you've spent years polluting, and then suing to loosen the mandated standards for c ... More >>
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January 18, 2010
Rep. Brendan Williams Demands Lip Service From Boeing
Boeing better play fair, or else Rep. Brendan Williams is going to get really mad and stomp his feet really, really hard.Some bills get their teeth removed in committee or in 11th-hour negotiations. Others, like a new measure proposed by Rep. Brendan Williams (D-Olympia), arrive on the floor ... More >>
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January 20, 2010
Could Hackers Take Down a Boeing in Mid-Flight?
Angelina Jolie sense weakness in your flight's security.You've already given up your dignity at the security check. And, briefly, your ability to empty your bladder during the last hour of a flight. Now, in order to keep air travel safe from a new threat, are you prepared to give up Tweeting ... More >>
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January 27, 2010
Video: New Boeing Lasers Blow up Stuff Good
Boeing developed a laser so cool it had to call it the MATRIX. Now its found a way to use its truck-mounted Laser Avenger to destroy union jobs IEDs. Tech blog PopSci says that the laser explodes artillery using its "hot stare." Which sounds like a way of describing the lascivious look you'd get ... More >>
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February 4, 2010
Boeing Dreamliner Viciously Murders Window Shade in Name of Technological Progress
Boeing has built three Dreamliners thus far. And yesterday, it let some media folks pad around in the one plane whose interior most resembles the final product. What sweet new features did they find? Glowing ceilings. Toilets that flush with a wave of your hand. And the death of the window shade. ... More >>
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March 15, 2010
Boeing's Puzzling Silence on the Closure of the South Park Bridge
Fail. An estimated 10,000 people work at Boeing Field. So, logically it makes sense that the company would be dismayed if one of the primary routes leading to it were to close. As it turns out, that scenario is no longer hypothetical. In case you haven't heard, King County will be shutting ... More >>
News
March 17, 2010
Boeing's Strange Silence
Why no Microsoft-style outcry over its own bridge--the one at South Park?
Blogs
May 4, 2010
Boeing Sends Form Letter in Response to 8-Year-Old's Airplane Drawing
Media DecoderThe drawing Harry Winsor sent to Boeing.Harry Winsor has seen a lot of airplanes. The eight-year-old from Boulder, Colorado is the son of an ad exec who flies frequently, sometimes to far-off spots in Africa and Europe. One day Harry decided he could improve upon the planes he w ... More >>
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May 5, 2010
Boeing Co. Duwamish 'Habitat Restoration' Wasn't Exactly a Random Act of Kindness
Duwamish River Cleanup CoalitionToxins and trucksJudging by the way it looked and sounded on TV today, the news that Boeing will restore fish and bird habitat along the polluted Duwamish River appears to be a marvelous act of humanity. But lost in the headline crawl at the bottom of the scree ... More >>
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May 6, 2010
Reader: Boeing Never Wrote Me Back Either
"Dearest Boeing..."Reader Joe Ferrel responds to Boeing Sends Form Letter in Response to 8-Year-Old's Airplane Drawing. "When I was an undergrad doing a degree in aviation safety I wrote Boeing to ask for some information on cabin safety. They wrote back saying they didn't have time for coll ... More >>
News
September 1, 2010
Boeing's Next Delays
Uncovering more problems for the Dreamliner.
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September 9, 2010
Boeing Co. Invokes National Security to Avoid Claims it was Travel Agent for Torture Flights
In a 6-5 ruling, judges of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco yesterday "reluctantly" concluded that five men cannot sue the Boeing Co. for the role its Seattle subsidiary played in helping kidnap and torture the onetime suspected terrorists. Boeing and the Obama administr ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
Should Boeing Repent for Torture Flights?
Pete Jackson over at crosscut.com is trying to make the case against Boeing and its involvement in the CIA rendition flights during the Bush administration - and continued under the Obama administration. While not technically liable (as SW has reported, Boeing's Seattle unit was essentially t ... More >>
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December 6, 2010
WikiLeaks Cable Dump Shows Brazilian President is No Fan of Boeing Because It's an American Company
According to WikiLeaks' latest data dump (and we're thrilled that it's officially been labeled a "dump") Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would love to buy 36 fighter jets from Boeing, if only Boeing wasn't an American company.
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January 31, 2011
WTO: Boeing Received Some $24 Billion in Illegal Subsidies From U.S. Government
The latest ruling in the Europe/America-gives-illegal-money-to-its-principal-aircraft-manufacturer saga has been handed down. And the score stands at 1-1.
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April 7, 2011
Boeing and Microsoft: Two of America's Top-Ten "Biggest Corporate Tax Cheats"
It's time to play America's favorite game show, Why Being a Corporation is Better Than Being a Person! Today's theme is: taxes--specifically, how the phrase "death and taxes" may apply to people, but certainly not to big companies.
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April 8, 2011
WSJ: How Southwest Succeeded and Boeing Failed in Ripped-Fuselage Incident
In the hours after a gaping hole opened in in the roof above passengers on flight 812 to Sacramento, Southwest Airlines made a rather unprecedented move in the commercial airline world: it grounded nearly all its 737 flights without any prodding by the FAA. But while Southwest was busy nippin ... More >>
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May 4, 2011
Boeing Co. Gouges Taxpayers $1,679 for $8 Spare Part: So That's How it Made a Profit!
A week after Boeing announced a 13 percent, $586 million first-quarter profit, we learn about some oldie-but-goodie sales practices that have helped keep the Lazy B solvent: Charging $644.75 for a tiny plastic motor gear that should cost only $12.51, and pricing a dime-sized plastic roller as ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
Boeing Makes List of Top 12 Corporate Welfare Queens
Boeing, tax cheat, Fortune 500, Citizens for Tax Justice
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June 21, 2011
Now You Can Build a House with Boeing's Secret World War II Factory Wood
During the height of World War II, when the U.S. war effort demanded an astronomical number of bomb-dropping aircraft be built--Boeing delivered. And one factory that was instrumental in helping the company produce its quota of warplanes was one in SoDo that, looking down from above, one woul ... More >>
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June 24, 2011
Boeing's Jumbo-Jet Pilots Embark On Flying Food Tour of United States
Yesterday, some Seattle-area Boeing employees got together to decide where to have lunch. The consensus: Pennsylvania. So they hopped in a $300 million 747-8 Freighter jet and flew 2,500 miles to Pittsburgh, where they feasted on sandwiches from Primanti Bros. Subsequent lunch outings, confi ... More >>
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September 4, 2011
Jeff Bezos, Boeing Move Ahead with New Space Funding (Update: Bezos' Craft Blows, is 'Lost')
Blue Origin logoUpdate, Sept. 4 - Jeff Bezos reports on his website this weekend that Blue Origin "lost" its vehicle in an apparent test flight crash. Details, photos, after the jump. July 19 - With NASA's historic spaceflights ending this week - yesterday was the last undocking from the Int ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
Is Boeing Heading from Second Place to First Loser?
image sourceThe 737 is dead! Long live the 737!Imagine this scenario: Sometime in the mid-1990's, the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox managed to muscle out or swallow up every other team in Major League Baseball, and since then have played every game of every season, from spring train ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
Read Machinist Union's 'Smoking Gun' in Case Against Boeing's South Carolina Dreamliner Plant
OK, so whoever first coined the term "smoking gun" as a euphemism probably didn't have a few mildly suggestive e-mails in mind. Regardless, that's what we have--three short documents that the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers calls the "smoking gun" in the labor ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
Boeing May Lose $500M In Air Force Tanker Contract
Under a fatty 179-aircraft contract signed by Boeing and the U.S. Air Force, any costs that go over the $4.8 billion budget agreed to will be absorbed by Boeing. And according to new estimates, Boeing is set to do a lot of absorbing.
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December 13, 2011
Southwest to Buy $19 Billion Worth of Boeing Jets in Largest Aircraft Order Ever
If Boeing pays its sales agents on commission (and Lord knows they should), then there are some serious bonus checks being cut right now.
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January 17, 2012
Final Score for 2011: Airbus, 1,419 New Orders; Boeing, 805 New Orders
For the fourth consecutive year, Airbus has won the new-orders battle with Boeing. The European jet maker believes its success over its American rival can be largely attributed to strong demand for its revamped single-aisle plane.
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