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The Boeing Company, or simply Boeing (/ ˈ b oʊ ɪ ŋ /), is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide. [5] The company also provides leasing and product support services.
Commercial Airplane Group, by far the largest unit of Boeing, went from 83,700 employees in 1968 to 20,750 in 1971. Each unemployed Boeing employee cost at least one other job in the Seattle area, and unemployment rose to 14%, the highest in the United States. Housing vacancy rates rose to 16% from 1% in 1967.
On March 9, less than a month before Dean’s death, John Barnett, a Boeing employee for 32 years, died by suicide 12 hours after testifying on the company’s allegedly faulty oxygen masks on its ...
As part of its expansion blueprint, Boeing had planned to open a new production line at its facility in Everett, Wash., for the Max, north of the plant in Renton, where it makes all its 737s today.
Raymond "Ray" Conner, president and chief executive officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, attends a news conference after a test flight of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft operated by All Nippon ...
At Boeing, Calhoun was a director, starting in 2009, and was named lead independent director in 2018. [10] [6] The company separated the roles of chairman and chief executive officer in the fall of 2019 so that Muilenburg could "implement changes to sharpen Boeing's focus on product and services safety", according to a press release. [11]
Sam Mohawk, a Boeing employee of 13 years, claimed on "60 Minutes" that some factory workers took flawed airplane parts from storage and installed them on airplanes in order to keep production ...
The First Man was a pilot in a short 1964 computer animation, also known as Boeing Man and now as Boeman by the Boeing company. Fetter preferred the term "Human Figure" for the pilot. [2] In 1960, working in a team supervised by Verne Hudson, he helped coin the term Computer graphics. He was art director at the Boeing Company in Wichita. [3] [4]