Boeing and Everett, Wash. – Celebrating the Past and the Future

Boeing.com ^ | May 2, 2007

[skeptoid]

The Boeing Company is celebrating 40 years of remarkable activity at its Everett site during 2007. Since the first employees reported for work in January 1967, the site has designed, tested and manufactured nearly 3,000 wide-body jetliners, most of which are still in use around the world. The Everett site began producing the 747 jumbo jet in the late 1960s, followed by the 767 in the 1980s and the 777 in the 1990s. Soon, it will be the home of the world’s most advanced commercial airplane – the 787 Dreamliner™.

We are proud of our role in the Everett community, Snohomish County and Washington state. Today, the Everett site employs more than 24,000 and is a major contributor to the local economy and tax base. In conjunction with the Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour, more than 150,000 visitors tour the factory building (the world’s largest building by volume) each year.

As Boeing's largest site, Everett also is home to hundreds of employees who work in the Global Partners organization, which is responsible for contracting with and managing Commercial Airplanes external suppliers as well as several internal airplane components suppliers that build airplane interiors, electrical systems and commercial electronics.

Join us in celebrating as we look back at our history and look ahead to new milestones in aviation.

[skeptoid]

From the Boeing.com Everett history page

Construction work at Everett continued in June 1967

April '66 ......Pan Am announces order for 25 747's (program launched with 25 orders!!)
Sept 30, '68....747 rollout
Feb 9, '69......First Flight
Feb 22, '70.....First commercial flight JFK to LHR (London Heathrow)

The rollout of the first Boeing 747 on Sept. 30, 1968, made world headlines.

Launch to commercial service in less than 4 years with paper and pencil (and they had to log the forest to build the Everett production facility).

See this Boeing page for more facts and pics.

[skeptoid]

AERO-ping

[skeptoid]

See this Boeing page for more facts and pics.

Try this Boeing page instead.

[AJMaXx]

My brother works as QA there. He took us on a tour 10 years ago. Massive building. He works hard. He used to teach himself how to juggle while waiting for planes to arrive for inspecting. He got up to 4 or 5 balls I think.
If you ever have a chance to visit, go for it. Well worth the time.

[Paleo Conservative]

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[Prophet in the wilderness]

Boeing would have had a hard time today if they were to build a building like that and tear down all of them trees to build it,,, the envirowackos would have a fit today if they saw all of them trees cut down.
I look at it this way, it got rid of old grown trees either were rotted, diseased.

[phantomworker]

Awesome, thanks.

[Clemenza]

Thanks to Boeing, Everett has some of the lowest property taxes in the state. While not bucolic or as charming as nearby Snohomish, nor the “best kept secret” that is much of Tacoma, Everett isn’t such a bad place to live for a factory town.

[Politicalities]

I used to fly out of PAE. Kind of cool flying over the Boeing plant... the largest building in the world by volume.

[skeptoid]

...the largest building in the world by volume. ...

So large, according to Boeing.com that:
Inside the factory, overhead bridge cranes cruise 90 feet (27 meters) above the floor on 31 miles (50 kilometers) of crane rail network, supported by the roof trusses of the factory building.
..for just one superlative.

Some others, from this page:

• 4.3 million square feet (3.99 million square meters)
• 2.2 miles of outside wall (3.5 kilometers)
• 98.3 acres (39.9 hectares)
• 3,320,000,000 sixteen-ounce pop cans could fit inside
• 75 National Football League (NFL) football fields could fit inside
• 911 National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball courts could be accommodated

This is after two major additions to the 1967 '747' facility, but still, ..... seventy-five NFL fields......

I wonder how persons qualified to judge such things would rank this accomplishment (or maybe just the initial 747 phase). I would think it is one of the all-time greatest construction/production speed records in all of peace-time private enterprise history.