Lean, mean, Dream machine - The Boeing 787 takes shape. By Guy Norris 2007-06-12T00:00:00+01:00. ... The front tool is used to join section 41 to the mid-fuselage assembly, ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo planes made by The Boeing Co. depart regularly from the airport here headed for Iraq. Starting next year, much bigger cargo planes, modified 747s ...

787 assembly line 'huge deal' for S.C. ... Already the site of side-by-side factories that produce two-thirds of the fuselage for Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, ... Huge machines automatically drill and ...

These 30,000-pound QuadBots, built in Mukilteo, speed up Boeing 787 assembly in S.C. expand Four of these QuadBot machines, built in Mukilteo, can complete fastening a 787 fuselage section in a ...

Spirit AeroSystems employees look over the first Boeing 787 Dream Liner all-composit developmental nose section after its rollout, complete with fireworks and smoke machines, in the Spirit ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. SEATTLE • Last Thursday, Boeing Co. paid out big bonuses to its South Carolina workforce for meeting an early May deadline ...

Boeing is co-ordinating its key suppliers, which have all developed new production facilities just for 787 parts, and gearing up for the start of final assembly ...

When Boeing Co. announced a costly, six-month delay in the first delivery of the world’s fastest-selling airplane, the 787 Dreamliner, it singled out a shortage of bolts and screws as the chi… ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a Boeing engineer’s claims that the company took manufacturing shortcuts on two wide-body jets, with potentially catastrophic outcomes. Sam ...

WICHITA, Kan. — Inside the Spirit AeroSystems plant here, the nose-and-cockpit section of Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner takes shape in a vast, clean, quiet space — one largely devoid of people.

Last Thursday, Boeing paid out big bonuses to its South Carolina workforce for meeting an early May deadline to significantly reduce the amount of unfinished 787 Dreamliner work traveling to Everett.