Today’s main event was the tour we took at Boeing, about 30 miles north of Seattle. We took a tour of the factory where they assemble the 747,767, 777 and the new 787 “Dreamliner.” This plane will debut on July 8, 2007.
While the planes are assembled there in the plant, almost none of the parts are actually MADE there. More than 40 different countries contribute parts to the planes. They just do a big LEGO thing there and piece it together.
Before the tour they triple warn everyone that they’re not allowed to bring cameras, purses, cell phones, ipods, palm pilots, blackberries or BABIES! Supposedly, someone dropped a camera from the raised observation platform onto the wing of a plane under assembly and caused some $250K of damage to the plane!
Needless to say, there are no pics of the tour, only the exhibit afterwards.
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