Seattle’s Museum of Flight will receive one of seven Concorde supersonic jetliners that have been retired by British Airways, officials at the museum and the airline announced Thursday. The airline said the Concordes – retired last week after 27 years of commercial service – would go on display in Britain, the United States and Barbados. The Museum of Flight’s plane was scheduled to be delivered on Wednesday.
A private group requested an expanded ethics probe Wednesday of Sen. Ted Stevens for his legislative assistance to the Boeing Co. on the grounds that the senator’s wife works for a law firm that represents Boeing. Catherine Ann Stevens joined the law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe &Maw early in 2001, shortly before the senator publicly began supporting an Air Force proposal to lease Boeing 767s, according to the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
The Boeing Co. has signed an agreement with the research and development center for Fiat automobiles to investigate whether technology Boeing has developed for military aircraft can replace some wiring in cars. The agreement with Centro Ricerche Fiat involves Boeing’s IntelliBus technology. The companies say the technology could reduce the amount of wiring, connectors and controls needed to run radios, compact disc players, amplifiers, liquid crystal display panels, navigation systems and cellular telephones.
The Boeing Co. has promoted a senior vice president from its Commercial Airplanes Group to become the company’s chief technology officer and a member of its executive and strategy councils. James Jamieson had been senior vice president of airplane programs for Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group, where he oversaw design and production of commercial jets. Jamieson will be replaced by Michael Cave, who previously was senior vice president for Commercial Airplane Services.
Microvision Inc. of Bothell said Thursday that it has won a development contract worth $1 million from a major Asian-based manufacturer of printers and office equipment. The contract is based on earlier design work by Microvision on a new scanning engine for high-speed laser printers. That device would use the company’s patented light-scanning technology at its core.
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