{"id":112304,"date":"2023-04-18T16:47:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T16:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=112304"},"modified":"2023-04-18T16:47:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T16:47:41","slug":"a-bit-of-boeing-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/a-bit-of-boeing-history\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit of Boeing history"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A bit of Boeing history<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112305\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eLanka-1-e1681835232816.jpg\" alt=\"eLanka 1\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>1944? \u00a0No &#8211; it&#8217;s the year 2010<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><b>Early Saturday morning in a rainy Seattle . \u00a00300 hrs local time. \u00a0The location: \u00a0Boeing&#8217;s historic Plant II &#8211; about to be torn down after three quarters of a century producing thousands of the most significant and historic airplanes ever built. \u00a0<\/b><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><b>In preparation for demolition, three airplanes that have been undergoing Museum of Flight restoration in the factory&#8217;s assembly bays<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0<b>will have to be moved. \u00a0Just as in days past, with lights and images reflecting off the wet pavement, the last three airplanes are rolled out. \u00a0The giant hangar doors are raised, the tugs and towbars are hooked up, and with lights flashing, they are moved out of the factory and onto the historic ramp. \u00a0Where so many have gone before. \u00a0Then across East Marginal Way and out onto Boeing Field.<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><b><br \/>\nThey are the last airplanes to roll out of these doors.<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<b>Ever<\/b><b>.<\/b><\/span><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><b>First out isn&#8217;t even a Boeing airplane &#8211; but rather a Lockheed Super G Constellation that flew for Trans-Canada Air Lines. \u00a0The Connie is destined for the Air Park , next to Air Force One, after a Plant II stay of 1 year and three days.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112306\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eLanka-2-e1681835318435.jpg\" alt=\"eLanka 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><b>Next is a Boeing B-17 &#8211; especially heart-tugging as she is the last B-17 to roll out of these doors. \u00a0Boeing built 6981 B-17s in this factory during WW II, at a peak rate of 16 per day. \u00a0I guess you could say they built 6981 and rolled out 6982 &#8211; including this last ship &#8211; 65 years after her last sister.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112307\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eLanka-3-e1681835373247.jpg\" alt=\"eLanka 3\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><b>A poignant moment in time<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112308\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eLanka-4-e1681835432508.jpg\" alt=\"eLanka 4\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><b>Museum employee and good friend Evan Elliott, driving the tug, knows he has just made history.<\/b><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><b><br \/>\nFinally, a Boeing B-29 rolls under the raised hangar doors and out into the dark and wet night. \u00a0The very last airplane that will ever roll from this factory.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112309\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eLanka-5-e1681835489646.jpg\" alt=\"eLanka 5\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>This Boeing B-29 is the &#8220;last of the last.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0The now empty factory bays sit &#8211; silently awaiting their fate.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112310\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eLanka-6-e1681835548577.jpg\" alt=\"eLanka 6\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><b>Everyone present knew they were witnessing history unfolding in front of their eyes. More than a few tears ran down more than a few cheeks, to mingle with the soft Seattle drops of rain.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">A Boeing Plant II Primer<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The ramp that these three historic airplanes roll across, and the building they leave is one of the most historic aviation sites in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112311\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eLanka-7-e1681835619891.jpg\" alt=\"eLanka 7\" width=\"600\" height=\"348\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Here, in April 1944, are the 16 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers produced in this building &#8211; that day, and every day! \u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rbogash.com\/Connie\/Roy%20Lundberg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.rbogash.com\/Connie\/Roy%2520Lundberg.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1681916903400000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2rzLpCnLKF3EzbCeCFCRFr\">Click here for a Personal Note about those B-17s.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(See bottom of this email).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112312\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eLanka-8-e1681835680778.jpg\" alt=\"eLanka 8\" width=\"600\" height=\"283\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In October 1944, the first Boeing XC-97 rolled out of these doors &#8211; later to become the C-97 transport, KC-97 Tanker, and B-377 commercial Stratocruiser. (See the camouflage on the roof?)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112313\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eLanka-9-e1681835735158.jpg\" alt=\"eLanka 9\" width=\"600\" height=\"366\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">During WW II, the plant was completely camouflaged to look like a residential area as protection against possible Japanese air attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112314\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eLanka-10-e1681835797636.jpg\" alt=\"eLanka 10\" width=\"600\" height=\"321\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In the late 1940s and early 1950s, myriad B-50 bombers and C-97 Transports are being produced in this factory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112315\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eLanka-11-e1681835861364.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"354\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">On 12 Sept 1947, a radical new airplane &#8211; the Boeing B-47 six-jet bomber Prototype is rolled out. \u00a0This airplane is the direct lineal matriarch for all the jet airplanes Boeing has produced since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112316\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eLanka-12-e1681835916757.jpg\" alt=\"eLanka 12\" width=\"600\" height=\"225\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In 1952, in the darkness and wet of a Seattle night, the Prototype Boeing B-52 \u00a08-engine \u00a0Bomber is rolled out and across East Marginal Way . \u00a0She&#8217;s shrouded in secrecy and covered by canvas and tarps. \u00a0This amazing airplane is still in front-line combat service to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112317\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eLanka-13-e1681836062974.jpg\" alt=\"eLanka 13\" width=\"600\" height=\"485\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Here 277 B-52s are being produced where the earlier airplanes once were assembled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112318\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eLanka-14-e1681836129995.jpg\" alt=\"eLanka 14\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">And, in 1966, the first Prototype Boeing twin-jet 737 was manufactured in this building and rolled out of these doors on to this ramp. \u00a0This airplane (which I worked on &#8211; then, and which I still work on &#8211; now,) \u00a0is in the Museum&#8217;s collection. \u00a0She&#8217;s the first of more than 8000 737s built or ordered since then.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">She, and 44 \u00a0years later, the Super Connie, are my bit of Plant II experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">And so, today &#8211; History meets History as the last three airplanes roll out of these doors.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Boeing&#8217;s Plant II is truly aviation<em>\u00a0Hallowed Ground.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Note: \u00a0The B-17 and B-29 went to hangars across the field; the Connie to the Air Park.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>A Personal Note<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">During WW II, Boeing manufactured 13 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers\u00a0<u>every day<\/u>\u00a0in that factory (16 per day at the max.) \u00a0During the month of March 1944, they delivered 365 of those new bombers to the U.S. Army Air Force \u00a0&#8212; \u00a0in that one month! \u00a0That&#8217;s a lot of airplanes, and a lot of history&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">My very first boss at Boeing was a wonderful man named Roy Lundberg. \u00a0We remained life long friends. \u00a0Although gone for many years, I miss him and think of him often. \u00a0A resourceful, wiry old Swede, from the backwoods of Ione, Washington, he got me started off on the right track, and taught me many important lessons about the virtues of hard work and a job well done. \u00a0In many ways, I am who I am because of Roy Lundberg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">During the war, Roy used to fly as a mechanic on the first test flights of B-17s produced in that factory. \u00a0He used to check the airplane systems and fire all the guns. \u00a0All the airplanes got a test flight &#8211; and, &#8212; \u00a0essentially all, \u00a0&#8212; \u00a0got just that one test flight &#8211; before they delivered to the USAAF and flew off immediately to war. \u00a0Since they were cranking out 13 airplanes a day, Roy (and his fellow crews) had to make 13 First Flight test hops each day. \u00a0Sometimes the weather wouldn&#8217;t cooperate (rain and fog in Seattle, you know!), so the next day after a bad weather day, they&#8217;d have to fly 26 airplanes! \u00a0Sometimes, the weather would be crummy for a few days at a time &#8211; so they&#8217;d fly 39 airplanes, and so on. \u00a0All in one day! \u00a0They\u00a0<em>had<\/em>\u00a0to, as there was no room on the Field for the flood of airplanes coming out of the factory. \u00a0Needless to say, some of those test flights weren&#8217;t very &#8220;long.&#8221; \u00a0You might even call them &#8220;Short!&#8221; \u00a0Roy said, they&#8217;d land, climb out of one airplane and jump into the next.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">By war&#8217;s end, Roy had gone on the First Flights of almost 900 B-17s&#8230;&#8230;. \u00a0God Bless You, Roy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112319\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eLanka-15-e1681836303730.jpg\" alt=\"eLanka 15\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of Boeing history \u00a0\u00a01944? \u00a0No &#8211; it&#8217;s the year 2010 Early Saturday morning in a rainy Seattle . \u00a00300 hrs local time. \u00a0The location: \u00a0Boeing&#8217;s historic 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