Articles about Boeing – Page 13 of 18

Qatar Airways signs on for up to 100 Boeing jets, sending Airbus a message

Qatar Airways today sent a strong message to the Boeing Co. – and to Airbus, its European rival – by… Read More

Gov. Jay Inslee lays out five-point plan for boosting Washington’s aerospace industry

LYNNWOOD, Wash. – Washington Gov. Jay Inslee today laid out a down-to-earth prescription for keeping the Evergreen State competitive in the… Read More

U.S. and Boeing see WTO ruling as huge victory in dispute over Airbus subsidies

The World Trade Organization turned up the heat on Europe’s aerospace industry today by ruling that Airbus was continuing to… Read More

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Boeing awards $6 million in grants for STEM education (and its future workforce)

Three universities and scores of other educational programs stand to benefit from $6 million in grants from the Boeing Co.… Read More

Design a Kung Fu Panda jet, and Hainan Airlines could make your Dreamliner come true

How can you top a Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet painted to look like Star Wars’ R2-D2 robot? How about a Kung… Read More

FAA puts key Amazon, UPS, Facebook and Google execs on Drone Advisory Committee

Gur Kimchi, the vice president of Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery operation, has been named along with a variety of… Read More

Boeing engineer Joe Sutter, the ‘Father of the 747,’ dies at the age of 95

Boeing engineer Joe Sutter, who led the engineering team for the 747 jet in the mid-1960s and played a role in… Read More

Boeing 777X trim tool wins Guinness record for biggest 3-D-printed object

A trim-and-drill tool that will be tested during construction of the Boeing Co.’s next-generation 777X jet has already produced something… Read More

Docking adapter installed on International Space Station

Space station crew installs a new front door for SpaceX and Boeing spaceships

The International Space Station now has a door that will let crews float in from the commercial space taxis that… Read More

Boeing will move 50 data analysts into a hip new lab in downtown Vancouver, B.C.

A Canadian subsidiary of the Boeing Co. has announced plans to open a data analytics laboratory in downtown Vancouver, B.C., to help… Read More

NASA seeks five concepts for 2022 Mars orbiter and gives go-ahead for 2020 rover

NASA says it’s selected five aerospace companies, including Boeing, to conduct concept studies for a Mars telecommunications orbiter that’s likely… Read More

Boeing bans Pokémon Go game-playing at work – but don’t take it personally, Pikachu

Mark off the Boeing Co. as one more place where you shouldn’t be playing Pokémon Go, the monster-catching game that’s been… Read More

Boeing names Greg Hyslop new chief technology officer, to replace company veteran John Tracy

Boeing named Greg Hyslop its new chief technology officer on Monday. The 34-year company veteran will replace John Tracy, who… Read More

Microsoft Azure wins big piece of Boeing’s cloud computing business

Boeing will adopt Microsoft Azure for many of the commercial analytical aviation applications that the aerospace giant has built for more than… Read More

Founders Day: Boeing’s centennial party blends the old and the new

The Boeing Company pulled out all the stops today to celebrate its 100th birthday – from the opening bell at the… Read More

Boeing shows off its 787-9 Dreamliner jet in teaser video for Farnborough Airshow

If you love watching airplanes taking it to the max, you’ll dig the video showing a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner jet… Read More

Pebblebee Finder: Former Boeing engineers launch new Kickstarter for next-gen tracking device

In 2014, when former Boeing engineers Daniel Daoura and Nick Pearson-Franks launched Pebblebee, they marketed their flagship product as the… Read More

5G or not 5G? Boeing joins the battle over broadband satellite spectrum

The Boeing Co. is laying out plans to put more than 1,000 satellites into low Earth orbit to provide broadband… Read More

Iranian reports hint at huge Boeing jet deal

Reports from Tehran suggest that Iran’s flag carrier airline has struck a deal to purchase jetliners from the Boeing Co., which would… Read More

Boeing tries, tries again with design for solar airplane that could stay up for years

Aerospace companies have been trying for years to create a solar-powered plane that can fly at high altitudes for years… Read More

King County launches app that alerts bystanders when someone needs CPR

For most people, sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is fatal. When the condition hits, each minute that passes without CPR reduces the chance… Read More

Top 5 things to do at Museum of Flight’s ‘Above and Beyond’ aerospace exhibit

Most of the floor space at Seattle’s Museum of Flight is set aside to celebrate past glories of aerospace – but “Above… Read More

Boeing seals the deal for $11.3 billion sale of 737 MAX jets to Vietjet Air in Vietnam

With President Barack Obama looking on, executives from Boeing and Vietjet Air signed a deal in Hanoi worth $11.3 billion… Read More

Boeing opens its giant, billion-dollar 777X composite wing factory in Everett

Boeing is showing off the partially automated 777X Composite Wing Center it built at its campus in Everett, Wash. – the result… Read More

Boeing’s 737 MAX jet gets drawn into Southwest Airlines’ dispute with pilots

Is Boeing’s 737 MAX just a 737 jet, or is it something new? That question figures in a years-long battle between Southwest… Read More

Boeing’s Starliner schedule for sending astronauts into orbit slips to 2018

A top Boeing executive said today that the company plans to start sending crews into orbit aboard its CST-100 Starliner… Read More

Working Geek: Boeing exec Nicole Piasecki does her best work in the sky

Nicole Piasecki has been close to aviation her whole life. Not only is she a high-ranking executive at Boeing, but her… Read More

Gov. Jay Inslee names John Thornquist to head Washington state’s aerospace office

Longtime engineering executive John Thornquist has been chosen to head up Washington state’s Office of Aerospace, just as the state’s $70… Read More

Boeing takes steps to trim 4,000 jobs; more layoffs may be on the way

Boeing Commercial Airplanes says it’s following through on its job reduction plan with the target of reducing its workforce by 4,000 positions by… Read More

Boom moves ahead on supersonic plane project, with help from Virgin Galactic

Remember the Concorde? Boom Technology has picked up a high-profile set of allies in its quest to revive supersonic passenger… Read More