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Boeing overhauling landing gear for Qantas

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Published Aug. 31, 2010 at 2:51 p.m.

The Boeing Co. announced Tuesday it will perform landing gear exchange, repair and overhaul services for Qantas Airways’ fleet of six 747-400ERs. (BA) (SPR) ...

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Boeing loses six Dreamliner orders

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Published May 13, 2010 at 2:41 p.m.

The Boeing Co. has had orders for six 787 Dreamliners canceled. (BA) (SPR) ...

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Boeing loses Dreamliner orders

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Published May 13, 2010 at 1:40 p.m.

Boeing has lost another six 787 Dreamliner orders, the company revealed today in the weekly update to its order website. The customer was not identified ... That brings to a round 100 the total number of Dreamliner cancellations after more than two years of delays and the downturn in the aviation business since 2008. The new jet still has a big order backlog of 860 jets ... The canceled order is worth about $1 billion at list prices, though market data from airplane valuation firm Avitas pegs

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Boeing: 20 new 777 orders

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Published May 6, 2010 at 4:37 p.m.

Boeing Co. said that it’s received orders in the past month for 20 777 models from unidentified customers. (BA) (SPR) ...

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More rally in Topeka against state cuts

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Published April 30, 2010 at 6:16 a.m.

TOPEKA — Randy Foster of Wichita had an ominous warning for state legislators Thursday: Restore cuts to state mental health services or deal with a stampede of untreated mentally ill people when unemployment payments run out for thousands of aircraft workers idled by the recession ... Foster has some experience with that, having descended into clinical depression and alcoholism after he lost his job as a precision sheet-metal mechanic at Boeing in 2002 following the 9/11 attacks. Since then,

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2010 is crucial for Spirit

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Published April 30, 2010 at 6:44 a.m.

This year is pivotal for Spirit AeroSystems ... The company has six new development programs in the works. All of them — Boeing's 787, 747-8 and P-8A, Gulfstream's G250 and G650, and the BR725 thrust reverser — are in the flight test stage ... They will be moving into the initial stages of production, said Spirit CEO Jeff Turner ... "They all need care and feeding at the same time," Turner said. "It's like having sextuplets instead of having one (child) every couple of years." ...

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Boeing Wichita wins Air Force One maintenance contract

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Published Feb. 23, 2010 at 9:32 a.m.

Boeing Wichita has been awarded a $35.4 million contract for continuing support of VC-25A aircraft, better known as Air Force One when carrying the president ... Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. issued the contract ...

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Boeing 737 re-engine decision to come this year

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Published Feb. 11, 2010 at 4:05 p.m.

Jim McNerney, The Boeing Co.’s chairman, president and chief executive, says the company will decide later this year whether to begin putting new engines on its 737. (SPR) (BA) ...

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Boeing completes airborne laser test

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Published Feb. 12, 2010 at 3:58 p.m.

The Boeing Co. announced Friday that its defense division has helped successfully destroy a missile with an airborne laser. (BA) ...

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Boeing wins $12.4M Hornet repair deal

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Published Dec. 31, 2009 at 1:02 p.m.

The Boeing Co.’s St. Louis-based defense unit won a $12.4 million contract with the U.S. Navy to repair various components of the F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet. (BA) ...

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