Initial 787 wings arrive from Japan
Published 9:00 pm Monday, May 14, 2007
As workers trickled into the Boeing plant in Everett this morning, they got a glimpse of the company’s modified 747 Dreamlifter. And, if they were very lucky, Boeing employees could spot the first 787 Dreamliner wing boxes being transported from the bloated freighter over to the factory.
The wing boxes arrived at 4:10 a.m. Tuesday having left Japan roughly 12 hours before touching down at Paine Field on board the Dreamlifter. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries supplies Boeing with the composite wing boxes made at the company’s factories in Nagoya, Japan.
For the 787, Boeing opted to put an outside supplier — Japan’s Mitsubishi — in charge of building a plane’s wings for the first time. To learn more about Japan’s role in the 787, read this story that Herald reporter Bryan Corliss wrote after his trip around the globe to watch the building of the Dreamliner, http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/06/07/17/100loc_a1japan001.cfm.
The Herald has been monitoring the progress of Boeing’s global supply chain. Check out our interactive graphic at cmg-northwest2.go-vip.net/heraldnet/boeing.
