Boeing Factory tour in Everett WA
We had a good day today. Toured th
e Boeing factory where they make all the 747's, 777's and now the dream liner 787. Japan ordered 60 at $130 million each. This place was the largest indoor building in the world...they could play all national football games inside at the same time, that's how large it is inside. The three smaller buildings are where they hand wash and hand spray the outside coat of paint. Can anyone tell me how much weight paint adds to an airplanes total weight?Notice the beautiful mountains in the background? We could see Mount Olympus, which sits right on the coast between Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean. It was clear this morning for a few hours so we could see most of Mount Olympus; and then of course rain for the rest of the day. What Mountain sits just east of Puget Sound? Why is it called Puget Sound?
posted by Joyce @ 10:01 PM
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Was hoping you would get to Pike Place Fish Market - have you seen the FISH videos? If not, we'll have to show you sometime. Glad you are finding manufacturing tours to be fun. We went to the air museum in Seatle - that was interesting too. Did you find a soup kitchen to work at for Thanksgiving? We spent the day at the cabin - very relaxing. Look forward to your next entry! ME
according to my last calculations: Depends on the type of paint, epoxy type paint tends to be heavy. and lately I've found in EVERETT, Wash. —
Using a good dose of that — along with more than 8 miles of tape, 178 gallons of paint and 1.7 miles of paper — Jewett and other workers at Boeing's paint hangar in Everett have in four days turned the nearly half-acre of the jumbo jet's bare aluminum into Boeing's newest calling card.
Painting a jet is more than window dressing. The paint, which can add 600 pounds to an airplane's weight, helps protect the fuselage from corrosion. For an airline, it provides a chance to be creative, polish an image and get advertising mileage out of a giant flying billboard.
so do i get a ride in a boeing or just a replica? that's right...
My grandpa just came from Everett,wa last week. He said it was pk
Hi Joyce!
I've been on a tour of the same Boeing factory you went on a tour!!! How cool is that. My Uncle actually works for Boeing - he is a designer or engineer or something of the planes.
He took my sister and I to the factory when we visited him in 2000. They actually had a big employee party that day in and outside. We ate in the shadow of a plane outside the garage with all the blue doors on it in your first picture.
I remember my legs getting very tired from walking around that whole place.
How are your legs feeling from all that walking?
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