U.S. Air Force orders more A-10 wings from Boeing
By Wire Reports on Sep 5, 2013, at 2:29 AM Updated on 9/05/13 at 3:06 AM
Aerospace
The first addition to the Boeing 787 family took off Tuesday from Paine Field, near the factory where the plane was assembled, to the cheers of a couple of hundred Boeing Co. employees who watched the blue and white plane with a number 9 on the tail rise into a cloudy sky.
Bombardier's CSeries aircraft completed its maiden flight Monday in a successful test run of the new narrow-body airplane.
The U.S. Air Force has ordered 56 additional wings from Boeing for the A-10 Thunderbolt twin-engine jet.
The order brings the Air Force's total order for A-10 replacement wings to 173. Boeing has a contract to build up to 242 wings, which are produced at a Boeing facility in Macon, Ga.
The replacement wings will help the Air Force save an estimated $1.3 billion in maintenance costs over the next 30 years, Chicago-based Boeing said in a statement.
Boeing's Defense, Space and Security unit is headquartered in Hazelwood.
Aerospace
The first addition to the Boeing 787 family took off Tuesday from Paine Field, near the factory where the plane was assembled, to the cheers of a couple of hundred Boeing Co. employees who watched the blue and white plane with a number 9 on the tail rise into a cloudy sky.
Bombardier's CSeries aircraft completed its maiden flight Monday in a successful test run of the new narrow-body airplane.
