Model Airplanes

A report prepared by a state permitting agency shows Boeing sees the potential for a significant increase in jobs and airplane production in Everett once its new 777X widebody jet comes online beginning in 2021.

A “draft technical support” document, released earlier this month by the state Department of Ecology, shows Boeing wants the option to sharply increase production from 100 of the current model 777 jets built per year today up to as many as 125 of the new 777X jets per year from 2021 onward.

The report also provides the company’s projection that “employment at Boeing Everett is expected to increase by no more than 3,000 employees as a result of the 777X project.”

That’s almost 10 times the expected employment boost discussed in the past.

However, the production rate and employment figures in the ecology-department report represent the upper bounds of the growth Boeing sees as possible rather than what is expected, said Boeing spokesman Scott Lefeber.

“As part of our normal business planning, the 777X program needs to anticipate any and all future possible requirements. Part of this evaluation requires Boeing to take action years in advance to ensure environmental permits, tools and parts are complete and ready to support our potential requirements,” Lefeber said.

“No future rate decisions beyond the current 777 rate have been made,” he added.

Production of the 777X will begin in 2017 and will

Article source: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-may-increase-777x-jet-production-jobs-in-everett/

A report prepared by a state permitting agency shows Boeing sees the potential for a significant increase in jobs and airplane production in Everett once its new 777X widebody jet comes online beginning in 2021.

A “draft technical support” document, released earlier this month by the state Department of Ecology, shows Boeing wants the option to sharply increase production from 100 of the current model 777 jets built per year today up to as many as 125 of the new 777X jets per year from 2021 onward.

The report also provides the company’s projection that “employment at Boeing Everett is expected to increase by no more than 3,000 employees as a result of the 777X project.”

That’s almost 10 times the expected employment boost discussed in the past.

However, the production rate and employment figures in the ecology-department report represent the upper bounds of the growth Boeing sees as possible rather than what is expected, said Boeing spokesman Scott Lefeber.

“As part of our normal business planning, the 777X program needs to anticipate any and all future possible requirements. Part of this evaluation requires Boeing to take action years in advance to ensure environmental permits, tools and parts are complete and ready to support our potential requirements,” Lefeber said.

“No future rate decisions beyond the current 777 rate have been made,” he added.

Production of the 777X will begin in 2017 and will

Article source: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-may-increase-777x-jet-production-jobs-in-everett/

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a preliminary crash summary for the Oct. 29 fatal airplane crash that killed four people.

Few additional details were included in the report regarding the crash which killed the pilot, Phillip Cowger, and three passengers, Robert Harris, Wesley Harris and Julie Harris Lefevre.

According to the report, “an airport surveillance video camera recorded the airplane depart from Runway 07 at RUE (Russellville Regional Airport), which has a field elevation of 404 feet mean sea level (MSL). The airplane subsequently impacted tree tops in a rural wooded area about one mile off the departure end of Runway 07, at an elevation [of] about 620 feet MSL.

“A post-impact fire consumed the majority of the airplane.”

The weather at the time of the crash included overcast clouds at 200 feet above ground level and mist, according to the report.

On Oct. 29, a 2000 year model Beechcraft A36 Bonanza with tail number N3BE departed RUE at 7:54 a.m. headed for McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville, Tenn. The plane impacted hilly terrain shortly after takeoff.

A 911 call was placed at 8:14 a.m.

“I think a plane or something crashed into the side of my hill,” the caller, who identified himself as Kevin Burnham, said. Burnham is also listed as a deputy coroner at the Pope County Coroner’s Office.

During the call, which lasted approximately 55 seconds, the dispatcher asked if Burnham really thought it was a plane.

“Well, there’s parts of metal — yeah, I’m pretty sure it is,” Burnham responded, later

Article source: http://www.couriernews.com/view/full_story/26956573/article-Preliminary-report-issued-for-plane-crash

Gordon Nevins Steele was born May 1, 1919 in Santa Monica, Calif. His parents were William Nevins Steele and Ethel Bernice Kenner Steele. He passed away on Nov. 3, at his home in Friday Harbor, Wash.

Gordon was proud to be the grandson of John Corbet Steele, a founder of Santa Monica who arrived there in 1878. John was a blacksmith by trade. With only a sixth grade education he acquired a hotel, grocery store and invested in prime real estate. He served as postmaster and later became the third mayor of the city. Gordon was proud to have large blacksmith hands like his grandfather.

Gordon was preceded in death by his parents, only brother Keith, wives Betty Adamson Steele and Beverly Johnson Steele, and all other family members. He had no children.

Gordon graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1937, Santa Monica Junior College in 1940, and University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Chemistry in 1942.

In 1942, he was one of the several students hired by the Radiation Laboratory of the US Berkeley, under the mobilization plan of Nobel Prize winner Ernest Lawrence, for research and development of the separation of uranium isotopes by electromagnetic means.

Gordon was sent to Oak Ridge, Tennessee to work on the Manhattan Project in April 1943. He arrived “before the fences”, badge number 129 of the 75,000 issued, as part of a select group of Berkeley who were considered “invaluable as trouble shooters”.

Gordon’s work embraced all phases of the pilot stage of mass separation

Article source: http://www.sanjuanjournal.com/opinion/346794522.html