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Blue Origin Enterprises, L.P. is an American space technology company headquartered in Kent, Washington. The company operates the suborbital New Shepard rocket and the heavy-lift New Glenn rocket. In addition to producing engines for its own rockets, Blue Origin supplies engines for other vehicles, including United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur.
During and after the Great Depression, Kent was known as the "Lettuce Capital of the World". [20] After WWII, Kent began to grow more rapidly. From 1953 to 1960 the city's size grew twelve-fold. In 1965 Boeing began building in Kent, followed a few years later by other aerospace and high-tech companies. [21]
Boeing facilities at the airport have also included a paint hangar [14] and flight test facilities. [15] The initial assembly of the 737 was at Boeing Field in the 1960s because the factory in Renton was at capacity building the Boeing 707 and Boeing 727. After 271 aircraft, production moved to Renton in late 1970. [16] [17]
Boeing's labor talks come as the U.S. planemaker loses ground. Boeing's Washington state factory workers voted by more than 99% in favor of a strike mandate, their union said on Wednesday evening ...
The Boeing Model 80A-1. The Museum of Flight is a private non-profit air and space museum in the Seattle metropolitan area. It is located at the southern end of King County International Airport (Boeing Field) in the city of Tukwila, immediately south of Seattle. [5] It was established in 1965 and is fully accredited by the American Alliance of ...
Elon Musk used his new government efficiency role to stop by the operations of his competitor Boeing to look into the long-delayed efforts to renovate two 747 jets into the next generation of Air ...
The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype first flown in 1954, the initial 707-120 first flew on December 20, 1957.
SEATTLE (Reuters) -Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg has tapped Ann Schmidt to be chief communications and brand officer in the latest executive appointment since Ortberg took over as chief executive in ...