TexasDrifters: Boeing Aircraft Factory, Everett Washington

While in the area of Seattle, the Boeing Aircraft factory is a must. Boeing has a facility called "The Future of Flight" as a launch for their tours. The facility houses numerous displays of aircraft features, an auditorium, security, a company store and a facility for bus traffic for the tours.

The displays inside the facility were interesting, but the main item was the factory. Unfortunately, cameras were forbidden in the factory. So no pictures of the factory, but a few facts. The building were the 707,727,747, 757,777, and the 787 are made is huge. The building is the largest building in the world by volume. It covers 98 acres and 30,000 employees work there on three shifts. There are tunnels that run underneath the facility for getting from one side to the other. Numerous overhead cranes do the work of moving the huge pieces of the aircraft. The 787 is a composite aircraft, not aluminum. The factory looked like a well orchestrated city of planned movements.

A Boeing 787 can be purchased for $350,000,000. Of course, options are extra.

Front entry doors into Boeing's Future of Flight Museum.

A photo from the top of the Boeing gallery. Interesting displays.

One of the many information boards.

Here I am "flying" as a passenger on a jet.

I was not good enough to sit in the seat as a passenger. I needed to look outside.

This shows one of Boeing's corporate jet furniture settings. They use this in their 737 aircraft. Lee asked why can't our jet-setting neighbor have a jet like this. Well, David???