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October 13, 2024 at 7:13 PM GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — West Michigan businesses are being affected by a Boeing factory worker strike that is now entering its fifth week.
Boeing Machinists Union member Nico Padilla, front, and others wave to passing traffic on the picket line at the Everett plant, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, in Everett, Wash. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)
Boeing's announcement comes as the planemaker faces competition from Airbus, which said in April it would increase its production of its rival A350 jet from 10 a month in 2026 to 12 a month in 2028.
The Boeing 767 is a mid-size, wide-body, twin-engine, jet airliner. First introduced in 1979 to complement the larger 747, the aircraft was capable of carrying 218 passengers in a typical three-class configuration over a range of 5,990 nautical miles (6,890 mi; 11,090 km) and a cruising speed of Mach 0.80 (530 mph, 851 km/h, 470 kn).
The company is involved with Boeing's KC-767 [4] and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II, F-22 Raptor, and C-130J Hercules, and the Eurofighter Typhoon. Smiths engine components equip many major military and civil gas turbine engines , providing critical technologies from intake to exhaust.
Air New Zealand and Boeing are researching the jatropha plant to see if it is a sustainable alternative to conventional fuel. [78] A two-hour test flight using a 50–50 mixture of the new biofuel with Jet A-1 in a Rolls-Royce RB-211 engine of a 747–400 was completed on December 30, 2008. [ 79 ]
Boeing employee Adrian Camez, who works in Seattle, stokes the fire of a burn barrel as others arrive to vote on a new contract offer from the company Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, at the Aerospace ...
WZZM (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, serving West Michigan as an affiliate of ABC.Owned by Tegna Inc., the station has studios on 3 Mile Road NW in Walker (with a Grand Rapids mailing address), and its transmitter is located in Grant, Michigan.