Charleston dreams of joining jet set

Published 9:00 pm Wednesday, May 11, 2005

An editor at The State, in Charleston, S.C., weighs in with this op/ed piece on the potential benefits to being the home of Vought-Alenia’s new 787 fuselage manufacturing plant.

Key quote: “Boeing’s stack of orders gives the Vought-Alenia venture a base to build on, and to learn how to build an airplane using lighter composite materials. That should provide a technical advantage for Charleston to lure other aircraft work with the same material, said (South Carolina) Commerce Secretary Bob Faith.”

Here’s a link:

http://www.thestate.com/mld/state/news/opinion/11625060.htm

North Charleston’s one of the four sites on EADS’s shortlist for its proposed U.S. tanker plant. The State, in this story, looks at its chances:

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/11615646.htm