August 2015 | Volume 14, Issue 04 | Boeing.Com/Frontiers Frontiers Vision Quest Boeing Technology Allows Unprecedented Realism for Military Flight Simulators

August 2015 | Volume 14, Issue 04 | boeing.com/frontiers Frontiers Vision quest Boeing technology allows unprecedented realism for military flight simulators

AUGUST 2015 01 TABLE OF CONTENTS 16 06 Snap shot 07 quotables 08 What we do 10 H istorical Perspective 16 B eetle juice Boeing and NASA test methods to reduce bug splatter on wing surfaces as a way to photo: Bob Ferguson | Boeing reduce drag and save fuel and carbon-dioxide emissions on longer flights.

22 B -1: Vitamin for peace 22 With a strong design and upgrades provided by Boeing, the B-1B Lancer bomber keeps evolving to meet current threats.

28 po ster: four Score 30 Is it flight or is it CRVS?  Boeing’s Constant Resolution Visual System, or CRVS, provides Boeing simulators visuals that are as realistic as you can get, including improved night, formation flying and air-to-air refueling scenarios. photo: Bob Ferguson | Boeing 35 C ustomer Profile 36 T raining that’s miles above 40 Several hundred Boeing mechanics in Renton, Wash., are mastering the skills required to build the new 737 MAX jetliner—and optimizing manufacturing processes—before it hits the production line.

40 Wizards of OZ Boeing Australia is helping sharpen the company’s innovative edge, developing technologies and processes that differentiate Boeing defense and commercial jetliner products from the competition.

48 Trailblazers Satellite visionary and pioneer Harold Rosen brought the world closer when his Syncom communications satellite was launched more than five decades ago.

photo: Tim Reinhart | Boeing 52 mile stones

02 Boei ng Frontiers Cover: A pilot flies a mission in a simulator using Boeing’s Constant Resolution Visual System, or CRVS. Bo b Ferguson | Boeing

Photo: A composite view of what a pilot sees when training with the CRVS Landscape, an alternative to the standard 360-degree CRVS. R on bookout | Boeing

AUGUST 2015 03 FRONTIERS STAFF A 100d YEARSverti THATse ments Tom Downey T CHANGEDhe stories THE behind WORLD the ads in this issue. Publisher T he deluxe edition of Higher: 100 Years Brian Ames of Boeing, a new book about Boeing’s Editorial director 05 history, has 64 pages of photographs Paul Proctor not included in the standard retail Executive director edition—and it’s available only from James Wallace the Boeing Store. Get your copy Editor now at your local Boeing Store Vineta Plume or boeingstore.com. Managing editor FROMHIGHER: 100BUENOS YEARS OF BOEING AIRES TO THE BOTTOM LINE Author Russ Banham worked closely with Boeing to develop this fascinating new Ahistory BETTER of the company’s firstWAY century. The TO deluxe FLY.hardcover edition, available only from Cecelia Goodnow the Boeing Store, comes in a special slipcase and contains nearly 300 pages of inside stories and rare photographs that tell how Boeing and its heritage companies came into “Bottom Line” is the latest in a being and transformed the world. Get your copy now at your local Boeing Store or at Commercial Airplanes editor www.boeingstore.com. $49 12 series of ads showcasing the many

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276768-017_Higher_FrontiersAd.indd 1 7/21/2015 1:34:28 PM Snapshot Magic Carpet ride An F/A-18 Super Hornet lands on the during successful sea trials on board deck of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier the USS George H.W. Bush. The using a new software technology software is designed to change how known as Magic Carpet that allows flight controls on an aircraft work, more accurate and consistent allowing pilots to rapidly move the landings. Boeing and the Navy flaps instead of rotating the aircraft. recently tested the technology PHOTO: U.S. Navy

06 Boei ng Frontiers Q uotableS “ Aircraft like the 787 enable us to fly to destinations we otherwise wouldn’t.” — Jeff Smisek, chairman, president and CEO for United Airlines, on United’s new San Francisco to Chengdu, China, route, which he said was made possible by the 787’s efficiency. If it’s successful, the airline will follow it with other new long-haul, nonstop international routes. Buying Business Travel, July 16

“ If we ever stopped to think about what we were trying to do, I’m not sure we’d have attempted it!” — Ginger Barnes, retired Boeing vice president and program manager for Space Launch Systems, on helping integrate the Russian element of the International Space Station in 1988. Read Barnes’ story, and those of other employees, customers and aviation enthusiasts, on Boeing’s centennial story sharing website at boeing.com/our-stories.

“ We have to shop the world for ideas.” — Tim Noonan, Boeing vice president of Training Systems and Government Services, on how Boeing is meeting with video and computer game experts across the globe to improve its simulation offerings and collaborate on advanced projects. Boeing News Now, July 16

AUGUST 2015 07 what we do

support any aircraft situation that Burning might arise. Their lives are in my hands. I don’t take that lightly. No one wants a fire to happen. desire But if it does, I know I’m fully prepared. T his Boeing firefighter’s I’ve been trained in engine, truck, hazmat, aircraft rescue firefighting, training prepared him for emergency medical services and any emergency confined-space capabilities. I feel like I can handle almost anything b y Capt. Mike Signora, as told to Megan Galvin you throw at me. A few years ago that training As captain of A Platoon at the Boeing came into play for me, during an Fire Department at the Philadelphia accident just outside the facility. Two site, Mike Signora is passionate semi-trucks crashed on Interstate 95 about safety and helping ensure and because of the magnitude of fires and other emergencies are the crash and resulting fire, local rare events at Boeing. authorities called in my Boeing fire unit to help get the scene under remember once seeing a poster on control. They knew we could get the Ia firehouse wall that said, “In case job done. That’s a good feeling. of fire, break glass.” It depicted a little One of my favorite things about fireman inside a firebox with a hose working for Boeing is getting to work and an axe, just sitting there ready to side by side with my childhood buddy go. I always thought that was funny Shawn. His father was a volunteer because that’s how I think. As a Boeing firefighter at the Prospect Park Fire firefighterI ’m always ready to go. If a Company just down the road from fire happens, I want to be there. Boeing. When Shawn joined that Actually, at the Boeing Philadelphia department, I started hanging out site, my days are spent mostly on at the fire station too—and found prevention. It’s a diverse site where my calling. we build Chinooks and V-22s, A few years ago I even became manufacture composites, and test, the chief at that local fire station. design and engineer the products It’s all come full circle. And when it our customers depend on. comes time to break that glass, As the captain of the A Platoon, I’m ready! n I lead my team through the site [email protected] daily—on 24-hour shifts—inspecting, testing and monitoring fire alarms, sprinklers, extinguishers and fire-rated materials. Essentially, my job is to keep our people safe so they can go on designing and building the products that keep the world safe. Philadelphia is a pretty cool part of Boeing. I get to work on the flight ramp whenever Chinook helicopters roll from the factory floor into flight testing.T he pilots appreciate the safety net, knowing we’re a step away and ready to

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AUGUST 2015 09 HI STorical PERSPECTIVE S tarring role North American’s legendary B-25 Mitchell bomber turns 75

b y Michael Lombardi

t was one of the most daring raids of IWorld War II. On April 18, 1942, just four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, 16 B-25 bombers took off from the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Hornet to Although designed to be a guns. It had a total of 14 forward-firing attack the Japanese homeland. Named conventional level-flight bomber, machine guns. for its commander, Lt. Col. James the B-25 would go on to excel in the North American first produced the “Jimmy” Doolittle, the Doolittle Raid low-level attack role. U.S. Army Air B-25 at the Los Angeles plant where all over Tokyo and other cities in Japan Force Maj. “Pappy” Gunn and North A through C models were built, as well did little damage to the industrial American Aviation field service as all G and H models. Ground was targets that were hit. But the effect representative Jack Fox worked broken in March 1942 for a second B-25 on the national will of both countries together to field-modify B-25s into assembly plant in Kansas City, where all was significant. a weapon that would be effective B-25D and B-25J models were built. The raid gave a much needed morale against enemy shipping and airfields, The B-25 saw combat in every boost to Americans in the wake of the mounting multiple .50-caliber machine theater of World War II, from the South painful blow inflicted on the U.S. Navy guns in the nose. The modification Pacific to Russia, and from the deserts at Pearl Harbor, and it placed doubt in was so devastating to enemy shipping, of North Africa to the skies over Europe. the minds of Japanese war planners. in particular during the battle of the They were operated by the air forces of It also marked the combat debut Bismarck Sea, that the concept made America’s allies, including Great Britain, of North American Aviation’s B-25 its way back to the North American Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, the Mitchell, which would go on to be one factory, where engineers designed a Soviet Union and China. And 700 of of the most versatile, successful and production version designated B-25G. the land-based bombers were acquired produced medium bomber of the war. This model went a step further, with a by the U.S. Navy. The design of the B-25 began with the 75 mm cannon, the same used on an In all, North American built 9,817 North American NA-40, a light bomber M-4 Sherman tank. B-25s between 1940 and 1945. By prototype that competed against the Further modifications resulted in the the end of the war the Douglas A-26 Douglas DB-7 (A-20). The NA-40 did not B-25H, which had a lighter version of Invader was replacing the B-25 as a lead to a production contract but did the 75 mm cannon and four .50-caliber medium attack bomber, but the B-25 serve as a basis for design studies that guns in the nose as well as twin continued to serve long after the war were initiated in March 1939 in response .50-caliber machine gun pods mounted as VIP transports and training aircraft, to the Army Air Corps wanting a medium on either side of the forward fuselage. many modified by Hughes Aircraft. bomber. In September 1939, North Adding the firepower of the twin guns They served with the U.S. Air Force American, a Boeing heritage company, in the top turret, the B-25H had an until 1960. n was awarded an initial order for 184 of accumulated forward firing power of mi [email protected] the bombers, which had been named a 75 mm cannon and 10 .50-caliber “Mitchell” in honor of Army Air Corps machine guns and four more guns in Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell, a military defensive positions. It was the most I llustration: (Above) A B-25H Mitchell bomber aviation pioneer and outspoken heavily armed airplane of World War II. cutaway. Boeing advocate for U.S. air power. The next and final production Photo: (Right) B-25Cs on North American’s version was the B-25J, which was built On Aug. 19, 1940, 75 years ago ramp at Mines Field (present-day Los Angeles this month, pilot Vance Breese and to fly both level-bombing and strafing International); following the Doolittle Raiders, co-pilot Roy Ferren took the B-25 roles that traded the difficult-to-aim these B-25s would be some of the first up on its first flight. 75 mm cannon for additional machine to see combat in World War II. Boeing

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E mployees experience the a 23-year employee of the Shared year’s annual enrollment in the fall. rewards of good health in Services Group. The benefits really hit The Preferred Partnership plan home, he said, when two of his boys provides lower paycheck contributions, many ways were sick with early-onset pneumonia no office-visit copayments for b y Susan D’Alexander and Victoria Wiedel and a sinus infection. primary care physician visits, and “The doctor’s office said we no generic prescription drugs covered effrey Koellmer understands and longer had to pay the $40 copay,” at 100 percent. Jappreciates the benefits of good said Koellmer, referring to the copay The Preferred Partnership’s health. After all, he’s responsible for required under his previous health care “concierge service” model offers overseeing Boeing fitness centers. plan. “Then we went to the pharmacy after-hours care availability and more But he and his wife also are raising we always go to and picked up two personalized, coordinated care for three boys who are active in sports, sets of antibiotics, and there was no complex medical conditions such and keeping them healthy is important, copay. We paid nothing between the as diabetes and heart conditions. too, because medical costs can doctor’s office and the pharmacy.” Eligible employees in the Advantage+ quickly add up. First offered in the Puget Sound health plan receive an increased Koellmer, an Enterprise Services area of Washington state, Boeing plans company contribution to their Health manager in Everett, Wash., was among to introduce the Preferred Partnership Savings Account. thousands of Boeing employees who option in Charleston, S.C., and the “We know many employees want enrolled in the Preferred Partnership St. Louis area for 2016, with other to take steps to get and stay healthy, medical plan for 2015. markets planned in the future. Eligible and to take charge when it comes to The new plan has lowered their employees will be able to select the managing their health care costs,” medical costs, according to Koellmer, Preferred Partnership plan during this said Pam French, vice president of

14 Boeing Frontiers The Step by Step Program is a voluntary, enterprisewide E arn the initiative that encourages employees to take control of their health. As a new part of Step 3 this year, Boeing is rewarding $100 H ealthy You Reward most nonunion and select union employees who participate in Steps 1 and 2. After completing a screening and the health assessment, some employees will have an opportunity to earn Healthy the $100 Healthy You Reward if certain criteria are met.

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Know your health Prioritize your health Take action to address numbers by participating risks by completing a any health risks and options in a screening. health assessment. get rewarded.*

Compensation and Benefits. “That’s screenings, the health assessment, the screening. She has completed why Boeing provides employees WebMD Health Coaching and seven half-marathons, plus many with industry-leading health care Boeing on the Move, with making shorter races. benefits, including initiatives like her more aware of her situation and “I definitely have more energy,” Preferred Partnership, and offers providing her with options to set she said. “With exercise, I sleep better. well-being programs.” and achieve personal health goals. My clothes fit better and I’m just Taking responsibility for one’s As an Integrated AeroStructures more active.” n physical health goes beyond visiting the production and service quality [email protected] doctor and picking up prescriptions. manager in Auburn, Wash., Odle is [email protected] For Charmon Odle, the results of an used to forming and following plans on-site health screening appointment to achieve goals. *Although participation in the Step by Step in 2011 prompted her to take action. “Unless you have a plan, at work Program is voluntary, some employees will pay more for medical coverage if they and “I know what good shape looks like and in life, it’s really difficult to their covered spouse or domestic partner accomplish your goals,” Odle said. A and feels like, and I was not in good do not participate. The Healthy You Reward shape,” said Odle, a former college health coach helped her set the goal is separate from and in addition to any athlete. Odle’s personal physician of running her first 5K, and she now medical plan contribution savings realized. prescribed three medications during schedules a running race each month Visit TotalAccess this fall for details. a follow-up visit after the screening. and follows a training plan to ensure But she did not want to spend the she crosses each finish line. rest of her life on medication. Odle lost a significant amount of Odle credits well-being resources weight and no longer has to take the provided by Boeing, including on-site medications prescribed to her after

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G o behind the scenes as Boeing takes its ecoDemonstrator to Louisiana—and gets the bugs out b y Dan Raley | Photos by Bob Ferguson

ugs were an issue for Boeing, of flies, bees and mosquitoes they an airport with grassy areas, a Bbut exterminators and repellents could find in order to come up with neighboring bayou swamp and thick weren’t the solution. Rather than ways to design future airplane wings humidity—making it the perfect insect have a pest infestation removed, that are more bug-splatter-resistant— aerodynamics engineers Doug making the airplane more fuel-efficient. Christensen and Tom Farrell went They first had to decide where. Photos: (Left) Lynn Kimsey, University of looking for a nasty swarm of With help from one of the country’s California–Davis entomology professor, pursues a bug sample during Boeing testing insects—the bigger, the better. leading entomologists, a team of in Shreveport, La. (Above) Twelve different They wanted to fly the Boeing employees, NASA personnel insects, including a crane fly like this one, were ecoDemonstrator 757 repeatedly and others settled on Shreveport, La. detected on the wings of the ecoDemonstrator into the heaviest concentration The Southern city had everything— 757 during Boeing bug testing in Louisiana.

AUGUST 2015 17 18 Boei ng Frontiers breeding ground and test site. consumption on a long-range flight, NASA researchers had used a “bug “It was all about the bugs,” said according to Christensen. gun” to shoot crickets and fruit flies at Christensen, ecoDemonstrator 757 Boeing engineers experimented stationary surfaces, firing just inches program manager, Commercial with a wing high-lift device, called away to ensure full impact. In Shreveport, Airplanes Development. “Were they a variable camber Krueger flap that they introduced surface roughness and going to show up when we were there? unfolds from the underside of the wing, different chemicals to a wing typically They definitely showed up.” using it as an impromptu bug shield moving at 150 mph (240 kilometers At Shreveport Regional Airport, in different positions on the 757’s left, per hour) on low-altitude flights, and the right, or starboard, wing of the or port-side, wing. These customized determined a combination of the two 757, wearing experimental coatings Krueger flap angles were responsible approaches worked best. applied by NASA, registered a weighty for a significant reduction in insect “The reduction is 40 percent, not 40,000 insect hits during 83 flights over splatter on the wing’s leading edge, 100 percent, so there’s still something 10 days. It didn’t look much different which was a breakthrough. we don’t understand to prevent bugs from a motor home after a vacation, “All of the focus might have been from sticking at those speeds,” said collecting all sorts of streaks, smears on the bugs, but these tests validated Mia Siochi, NASA research materials and skeletal bug remains. leading-edge technology on the wing engineer. “But 40 percent is still a While it might seem like no more as well,” Farrell said. “That was the significant number.” than a messy inconvenience, a jet wing fun part.” Lynn Kimsey, University of splattered at lower altitudes will disrupt Working independently, a 10-person smooth flow of air over the contour of NASA team applied and monitored the wings for the rest of the flight, with five different coatings on the 757’s Photos: (Clockwise from top left) Boeing minuscule bug debris, dirt or even a starboard wing to see if it would product development engineers Jeff Burton, scratch creating drag and extra fuel limit bug contamination and airflow left, and Sabre Hecht inspect a removable wing consumption, Christensen said. disruption. The aerospace agency, panel for bugs; Alex Mulbah, flight-test engineer, enters data on a laptop while seated on the What the ecoDemonstrator 757 which eventually will share its test ecoDemonstrator 757; more than 40,000 bugs, team learned in Louisiana is that the results publicly, found one of the including a paper wasp like this one, splattered usual bug buildup can be prevented treated layers resulted in a 40 percent onto the 757’s right wing during testing; to varying degrees, potentially decrease in splatter debris. following bug testing, the ecoDemonstrator leading to a significant savings in fuel In previous testing in Hampton, Va., 757 was retired and is being recycled.

AUGUST 2015 19 California–Davis entomology professor, NASA meticulously listed the types has been at the center of Boeing’s of bug residue left on the airplane wing-debugging efforts since the outset. wings, identifying whether it was She took an active role in the test site insect wings, eyes or eggs because of selection and provided specialized the different compositions of matter. knowledge whenever species questions Splats also were examined for size arose. She came to Shreveport and color. Bug residue hardened if it equipped with a butterfly net. was left on the surface too long. Wings Her expertise has been in great were cleaned after each flight with a demand since she helped the FBI sponge and water. solve a high-profile murder case. Eighty-eight wing panels resembling She identified splattered insect oversized piano keys were coated in parts on a vehicle that had crossed some manner, some only partially. over state lines, enabling investigators More than 70 of them were removed to determine where a suspect and shipped to NASA in Virginia for had traveled. further testing. “I’m the queen of the bug splatter,” A Shreveport test flight lasted no Kimsey said. more than 10 minutes and usually Boeing initially considered 90 airport topped out between 5,000 and sites for bug testing, pared the list 10,000 feet (1,500 and 3,000 meters). to a dozen, and visited two each in Everything became fairly routine in California, Florida and Louisiana before the bug-filled skies. settling on Shreveport. Florida was Following Shreveport, the 757 ruled out because it imports bugs to conducted additional wing testing in pollinate its trees and the team didn’t Sacramento, Calif., and Seattle before want to do anything to hamper those the jetliner was removed from service, efforts. The state also was found to have too much rainfall, which would have washed away insect parts and delayed flight testing. Kimsey suggested the Gulf Coast region, but the consensus opinion was the test site had to be inland to avoid windy conditions. Bugs can’t fly in more than 10 knots (about 11 mph, or 19 kilometers per hour). Shreveport provided just the right geographical buffer, plus an airport that wasn’t too busy with commercial flights, permitting the 757 to stay on course with its 83 landings and takeoffs. Two cameras equipped with 300 mm lenses and mounted inside the plane snapped 180,000 photos, or one per second. A majority of the bugs hit the wings at 3,000 feet (915 meters) above ground level, and lower. Twelve varieties of insects were detected, among them chironomid midge, lovebug, acalypterate fly, dolichopid fly, honey bee, white butterfly, mosquito and thrip. “The flower fly was the dominant insect that I collected,” Kimsey said. “It left a big yellow and black splat.”

20 Boei ng Frontiers which was the plan all along. As part many, according to Christensen. After of Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator program, storing equipment on the ground at which is an effort to accelerate the Louisiana airport for a week and a testing, refinement and use of new half, and reloading it on the jet, team technologies and methods that can members found the 757 filled with improve aviation’s environmental stowaway chiggers, or mites. performance, this aging plane has Ironically, Boeing’s bug testers been decommissioned and much of it needed outside assistance before is being recycled. In collaboration with they could leave. They had to hire a the Europe-based tourism company local exterminator. TUI Group, the 757 was the third plane “We had to close up the airplane designated as an ecoDemonstrator, and set off bug repellent inside,” joining an American Airlines 737-800 Christensen said. n in 2012 and a company-owned d [email protected] 787 Dreamliner last year. As is often the case in product development, information gleaned from the 757’s trip to the South will continue to be refined, Christensen said. Some version of these technologies might not be utilized for another decade, or until the next new airplane is designed. Photos: (From top) Mia Siochi, left, NASA research materials engineer, and Mary Sutanto, Shreveport provided an ideal Boeing aerodynamics engineer, examine location for Boeing testing, supplying bug splattering during Shreveport testing; researchers with more than enough Al Gibson, flight-test mechanic, cleans the bugs to analyze. In fact, it was too windshield of the ecoDemonstrator 757.

AUGUST 2015 21 Bad to the Bone

Boeing upgrades the 20 inches high (38 by 51 centimeters). supersonic B-1 bomber “To get to the fuel cell where we are replacing the wall, we remove a for the tough missions panel, crawl through, remove a second of today—and tomorrow panel and enter the fuel cell,” explained Kemper, who is just over 6 feet (1.8 meters) b y Ben Davis tall and certified to safely work in enclosed spaces. “I have to get one n a triple-wide hangar on the edge of arm and shoulder in, then pull the other Ithe runway at Dyess Air Force Base in through. For the second hole, I tuck up Abilene, Texas, Terry Kemper prepares to in the fetal position and go in feet first.” enter an empty fuel cell in a B-1B bomber. Kemper is a member of Boeing’s In order to reach it, he must crawl through B-1 bomber Contract Field Team, a two access holes only 15 inches wide by group of 20 or so technicians who

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Photo: B-1 bombers of the 337th Test and Evaluation Squadron, based at Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene, Texas, refuel from a KC-135 tanker. JMI HASELTINE | HIGH-G PRODUCTIONS

AUGUST 2015 23 perform a variety of repair projects on the B-1 can carry many more bombs from Dyess, in Boeing’s Oklahoma City the nation’s only supersonic bomber. and missiles than any other aircraft in the office, software engineer Leah Morales “The space is so small we have to U.S. inventory. The bomber has a crew of scans lines of code on a computer screen, cut the wall in half and send it out in four, with wings that sweep back in flight looking for errors. Morales is test lead for two pieces. It can get a little cramped in for high speed (top speed is more than Central Integrated Test System (CITS) there,” he said. “It’s funny, because when 900 mph, or 1,480 kilometers per hour). for the B-1, a system that monitors the I served in the military, we worked on this Other than when deployed to forward technology on board the aircraft for errors. same area but only did a temporary fix. bases, the bombers are based at “The purpose of CITS is to detect Now I’m on the other side, replacing it Dyess and Ellsworth Air Force Base in any problems as soon as they occur,” to extend the life of the aircraft.” South Dakota. The fleet of 62 aircraft is Morales explained. “The software is As the B-1 bomber enters its fourth scheduled to receive cockpit and systems always running, detecting fault codes so decade of service with the U.S. Air Force, upgrades through the end of 2019. we can fix any issues that come up. Just Boeing employees across the country are Three hundred miles (480 kilometers) last week our program detected a hot developing and installing several upgrades that keep the “Bone” (B-one) on the cutting edge of performance. From wings to wiring, the aircraft is undergoing a thorough modernization. Just as Kemper has learned to adapt his size and frame to the space required, so the B-1 continues to adapt to an ever-changing battlefield. Most recently, it has seen extensive action in Operation Inherent Resolve, the campaign against the Islamic State group of militants in Iraq and Syria. For several months starting last year, B-1s from an air base in Southwest Asia have pounded ISIS targets in and around the Syrian city of Kobani, near the Turkish border, which had been overrun by the militants. The bombing campaign is credited with helping Kurdish allies retake the city. Before that, the B-1 was a workhorse in Afghanistan and Iraq. Originally developed as a nuclear strike bomber by Rockwell, a Boeing heritage company, it was transformed to carry conventional weapons with the end of the Cold War. Indeed,

24 Boeing Frontiers air leak near the wheel well of the B-1. Our software was able to detect it and prevent damage to the landing gear.” Morales and others on her team must run simulation after simulation to refine the software so it performs perfectly once installed. “We test CITS in the lab and also on the plane because it has to perform in the real world. I like trying to break it, to break our code. If I can’t break it, I know we’ve done a good job,” she said. CITS is one of three major technology upgrades that are modernizing the B-1. Fully Integrated Data Link updates the data link on the aircraft, while the Vertical Situation Display Unit replaces monochrome pilot and co-pilot displays with digital screens—the so-called glass cockpit. Collectively, all three updates are known as the Integrated Battle Station. By bundling three modifications into one effort, Boeing’s team improves vintage 1970s and ’80s software and computing capabilities throughout the entire aircraft. Some aspects of Integrated Battle Station are immediately obvious—each crew member now has a full-color, digital display screen in place of analog dials—while other improvements manifest themselves in operations. “With Integrated Battle Station, the radar command doesn’t require lots of buttons, just one button. With the updated user interface, you can engage targets using the radar or targeting pod with a single cursor control switch hit,” said Tom Adolfs, a B-1 software engineer. Adolfs, like Morales, has spent years developing and testing the software now being deployed on the B-1 fleet. The goal isn’t simply to add a digital sheen to the bomber, he said, but rather

Photos: (Clockwise from top left) Leah Morales, foreground, software engineer, and Associate Technical Fellow Devron Hanks inspect wiring layouts inside the B-1 bomber as part of the Integrated Battle Station upgrade; Boeing’s B-1 bomber enters its fourth decade of service with the U.S. Air Force with modernized cockpits, software and capabilities; Dedric Lary, left, Maintenance and Repair specialist, and contractor John Caswell inspect the B-1 bomber’s lower wing skin for cracks or indications of stress. Bo b Ferguson | Boeing

AUGUST 2015 25 increase its effectiveness and efficiency for the men and women who fly it. “Our designs have reduced the workload on the crews and increased situational awareness. We reach out and communicate with crew members to help us think like them so we design products that truly meet their needs,” he said. All of this effort begs a question—why update 30-year-old platforms like the B-1, particularly in light of the upcoming Long Range Strike Bomber program. “The B-1 has decades of structural life ahead of it, and it is a platform that has and continues to adapt to our military’s needs. And not just adapt to changing environments, but really excel in them,” said Rick Greenwell, B-1 program director. From his office in Oklahoma City, Greenwell can see the runway on Tinker Air Force Base where B-1s land for maintenance that includes Integrated Battle Station installation. “When you look at the history of this aircraft, it started off as a nuclear- capable Cold War deterrent,” Greenwell

26 Boeing Frontiers said. “Well, the Cold War ended. So then B-52 bombers, it may take most of the repairs in ’93 when I started on B-1 what? We worked with the customer to a decade before it will fully deploy was huge and intimidating. But I learned evaluate their needs, and we modified alongside its siblings. Boeing’s current to love this aircraft. You put your heart the B-1 to only carry conventional work on the B-1 ensures the bomber and soul into it and you start to see how weapons. When the wars in Afghanistan can soar through at least 2040, graceful it is in the air, how responsive.” and Iraq started, the B-1 took on a close according to Greenwell. Olivas lives under the flight path of air support role. We supported that new “Ultimately the customer will decide planes coming to the base, and he can role through some specific modifications when or how long any of the bombers will hear the distinctive roar of the B-1’s and now, when you look at current fly, but the B-1 will be a top performer for four powerful engines. missions, the B-1 has become the decades to come,” Greenwell said. “Sometimes I look up and enjoy watching workhorse of the U.S. Air Force.” Meanwhile, for Boeing’s B-1 team, them fly over,” Olivas said. “The B-1 really B-1 crews with the 9th Expeditionary the sum total of the Bone’s value is delivers. It lives up to its promise.” n Bomb Squadron in 2014 dropped more greater than each individual capability. bn e [email protected] than 2,000 precision-guided bombs in Back at Dyess Air Force Base, Contract six months—a record—in support of Field Team member Steven “Paco” Olivas troops engaged in Operation Inherent performs quality assurance for all of the View a video about the B-1 bomber at Resolve, according to the U.S. Air Force. repair programs—among them, wing boeing.com/frontiers/videos/august. “It’s the adaptability of the jet structural inspections and repairs and a that really is what has ensured its navigation enhancement called Inertial relevance—not only from the early Navigation System Replacement. Photos: (Clockwise from top left) A B-1 1990s to today but from today well into In his years at Boeing combined with streaks high above Kobani, Syria. getty the future,” said Col. Jason Combs, 7th a long military career, Olivas has logged images A co-pilot’s view of the B-1’s new Operations Wing Commander at Dyess. more than 20 years of working on the B-1. digital cockpit display. j im haseltine | High-G Even with the new Long Range “At first, repairs were challenging, Productions James Webster, B-1 repair Strike Bomber slated to join the current especially compared with the F-15 where technician, inspects a section of the bomber’s U.S. Air Force mix of B-1, B-2 and I used to work,” he said. “The scope of forward fuselage. b ob ferguson | boeing

AUGUST 2015 27 28 Boeing Frontiers F antastic four F/A-18s and F-15s on the flight ramp at the St. Louis jet fighter factory recently were joined by visiting advanced Apache and Chinook helicopters, offering the rare opportunity to capture four of Boeing’s latest military products in one image. The Chinook is built in Philadelphia; the Apache in Mesa, Ariz. From left: an F/A-18F Super Hornet, CH-47F Chinook, AH-64E Apache and Advanced F-15 air superiority fighter.T o download a poster of this image, visit boeing.com/ frontiers/downloads. PHOTO : RON BOOKOUT | BOEING

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30 Boei ng Frontiers Boeing’s patented simulation laying down ordnance and allowing technology provides military the friendly troops to safely disengage. Mission complete, he returns to base, pilots the most realistic view physically and mentally tested. possible without being airborne Only in this case, the “base” is a training

By Katie Perdaris center and he is flying in a simulator, one equipped with Boeing’s Constant Resolution Visual System, or CRVS. t. Col. Tom Isenberg, a fighter pilot “It’s as realistic as you can get in the Air National Guard, is at L without the other sensory inputs from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan when actually flying—the acceleration, the the emergency call comes in and the G-forces, the noise,” Isenberg said of the unit’s jets are scrambled. Friendly CRVS, a patented technology that has troops are being overrun, and the set Boeing apart from its competitors. pilots need to be airborne quickly to Isenberg, who works in Global Sales provide close-air support. Isenberg’s & Marketing for Boeing Defense, Space F-16 is soon in the air and he is able to make radio contact with a ground controller, who provides coordinates Photo: Eric Hauquitz, left, lead systems on where the enemy forces are. engineer for the Constant Resolution Visual Isenberg heads in that direction, System (CRVS), guides a pilot as he trains spots the enemy and swoops in low, using the CRVS. BoB Ferguson | Boeing

AUGUST 2015 31 & Security, is also an F-16 pilot in images bounce off of and onto the the Alabama Air National Guard. In screen are satellite-quality, ground April 2014, his unit was deployed to and polished. Afghanistan for six months and often “We have an exceptional team of provided close-air support for ground professionals that have spent the past troops. The hours spent training in a few years bringing the CRVS to life, CRVS simulator, and “flying” the above from the initial conceptual drawing to kind of scenario, Isenberg said, helped the finished product,” Hauquitz said. him and other pilots prepare for those “We all take personal responsibility lifesaving missions. for the performance of the system Unlike traditional visual systems that and are proud of it.” use flat screens to cobble together a Unlike legacy training systems, 360-degree display, the CRVS uses the CRVS was designed for high- long curved screens to present a much definition format projectors, and the more natural and realistic constant- wide-screen coverage means almost resolution display—one where all pixels every pixel in the projectors are used, are the same size to the viewer, said Hauquitz said. This produces a crisper Eric Hauquitz, lead systems engineer image, providing pilots with a more in St. Louis for the CRVS. realistic training experience. With a flat-screen visual system, he Isenberg said there is no said, the corners have higher resolution comparison between CRVS and and the middle has lower resolution. legacy simulation technology. The CRVS provides the same resolution “With a visual system like CRVS, you in every part of the screen. really become part of that environment,” “In the real world everything we he said. “That is a very important part see is constant resolution,” Hauquitz of the training piece—tricking your brain explained. “The shape of the system into those stressful situations that feel capitalizes on our natural field-of-view like you’re absolutely there, and thinking and focal length, giving the user a ‘that looks so real, if I hit that other better feel of depth and less eye airplane, I’m going to die.’ ” fatigue since our eyes aren’t having to Boeing delivered the first CRVS constantly focus at different distances.” displays in 2010 to the U.S. Air Force. The smooth flow of the screen Since then, they have been installed structure provides the cues on a variety of simulator platforms, necessary for the brain to become including Boeing’s AH-64 Apache fully immersed in the simulation, he attack helicopter and F-15 jet, as well said. The patented curved shape of as BAE’s Hawk and Lockheed Martin’s the screens, combined with Boeing’s F-22 Raptor and F-16 jets. screen coating, are what creates Customer feedback, Hauquitz said, the constant resolution. has been “ecstatic.” The focal length, or distance from The CRVS’ visual acuity, or image the eyes to the screen, only varies clarity, is based on the resolution about 8 inches (20 centimeters) from of the projectors. While the CRVS the bottom of the visual system to will work with the majority of high- the top, replicating the brain’s natural definition projectors on the market, assumption that things higher up are Boeing’s baseline offering uses a farther away, Hauquitz said. projector that gives the user 20/40 “It makes what we see more like visual acuity. Through an exclusive the real world,” he said. agreement with JVC, Boeing also offers Hauquitz and his team spent a higher-resolution projector that many hours troubleshooting to create the perfect combination of the image generator, screens and Photo: A pilot trains for a refueling projectors to get a clear, razor-sharp mission in an F-15C simulator equipped image. Even the mirrors that the with the CRVS. RH ic Rau | Boeing

32 Boei ng Frontiers AUGUST 2015 33 provides the user 20/25 visual acuity. such as formation flying and air-to-air sim, in an environment that felt so real.” “We use the same eye charts refueling. Training for night vision is The capabilities and realism of that ophthalmologists do,” Hauquitz also enhanced. To train for night CRVS also means pilots can practice said, explaining how visual acuity flying on a legacy system, pilots wear against the next-generation of enemy is measured with the CRVS. On eye goggles that simulate night using a fighters that don’t yet exist, he said, charts, 20/20 vision is considered projected image. With the CRVS, pilots and prepare for the kinds of threats perfect. What looks 20 feet (6 meters) fly with actual night-vision goggles and those aircraft would present. away is 20 feet away. If someone has the system stimulates the goggles to “We have to rely on better training 20/25 vision, it means something create a night scene. systems in order to practice against that 20 feet away appears as if it “The realism that goes with that is these advanced threats,” Isenberg said. were 25 feet (7.5 meters) away. second to none,” Isenberg said. “It’s “The CRVS takes training to another The capability of the CRVS to give important to train for night to learn how level, complementing the realism that pilots visual simulator acuity of 20/25 or limited the field-of-view is, and how you get from these really high-fidelity even 20/40 is significant for their training, cues such as line of sight and closure cockpits and introducing those said Hauquitz, a U.S. Army veteran. are degraded at night.” advanced threats that we don’t have “The team knows that our Isenberg doesn’t believe training assets to replicate in the real world.” simulators are providing the warfighter in simulators will ever fully replace So what’s next for the visual system? the best training available, and as the experience of actually flying in Hauquitz said Boeing is continuing a veteran that means a lot to me,” an aircraft, but he said a simulator to develop the CRVS. Hauquitz said. “The closer we can get does provide pilots the opportunity “By the time you get to 20/25, you’re to real life, the better. We need pilots to practice routine tasks and hone real world,” Hauquitz said. “Next we’ll who can react on instinct, and not their skills in an environment that can’t bring in motion, and other technology have to think. If we can put them in a always be replicated in an aircraft, at that the jets have. If we can do that, situation in a simulator that’s going to a significantly reduced cost compared we can take a lot of danger out of train them to use their instinct, that’s to actual flight time. the sky, so it’s a lot safer when pilots going to make them better pilots.” “I’ll go for a week to the mission are in flight.” n Isenberg agreed. training centers,” he said, “and those [email protected] Having spent a lot of time training missions become so advanced by the in legacy simulator systems, Isenberg end of the week that once you go back said there are many tactics pilots to flying the aircraft, you feel like you Photo: An Apache pilot prepares for a training can now train for using the CRVS can take on the world—because you’ve mission in the Apache Longbow Crew that they weren’t able to before, just been through the gauntlet in the Trainer with CRVS. R on Bookout | Boeing

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“We sit in every seat and look N onstop excellence at everything a customer might touch or use,” said American flight attendant American Airlines opens new routes with the Joyce Adkins. 787 Dreamliner Boeing, in turn, shared its 787 best b y Doug Alder practices so the airline’s team would be prepared once the fleet began ith rain falling on a chilly launched 787 service from Dallas / arriving. American says that approach Wafternoon this past January at Fort Worth International Airport to has proved successful. At the end of Paine Field in Everett, Wash., David Beijing and Buenos Aires. And later June, the airline saw six 787s join its Hensley anxiously paced around this fall, American will start using fleet, with 36 still to come. a brand-new 787. A test pilot for the Dreamliner from Los Angeles The next new Boeing jet that American Airlines, he was preparing to International to Shanghai and American will start prepping for is the take the airplane for its first customer São Paulo. 737 MAX. The airline has 100 of the acceptance flight. “American’s goal is to become single-aisle airplanes on order. But “We’d really like to take it up for the greatest airline in the world, and right now, the Dreamliner is stealing a ride today,” Hensley said. we know they’re counting on the 787 the spotlight. With daylight fading, Hensley got to help them get there,” said Brad “The 787 is something that will the green light and became the airline’s McMullen, Boeing’s vice president be written into our company’s first employee to fly its Dreamliner— for North America Sales. history,” said test pilot Hensley after a highly efficient airplane that’s Almost 600 Boeing airplanes are that first flight in January. “When I’m already opening up new routes and part of American’s fleet, including 70, I’ll be telling my grandchildren opportunities for American. Next-Generation 737s and 777s. But about this.” n “It was very, very quiet,” said the advanced 787 required fresh, d oug.al [email protected] Hensley after the flight. “I think our innovative approaches to maintain pilots are really going to enjoy and fly, according to the carrier. the airplane.” So to help ensure a smooth entry More important, American says into service for the 787, the airline it wants customers to enjoy the sent a crew from Dallas / Fort Worth 787 and the new routes the airplane to the Puget Sound region to put Photo: The first 787 for American Airlines takes is opening. As a key part of its the airplane through its paces off on a test flight at Paine Field in Everett, fleet renewal plan, American recently prior to delivery. Wash., in January. GAIL HANUSA | BOEING

AUGUST 2015 35 Trained to the

36 Boei ng Frontiers E mployees master skills for promises a 14 percent fuel savings MAXfinal assembly of the first compared to today’s Next-Generation 737 MAX 737. This improvement will come from the new LEAP-1B engine supplied By Lauren Penning | Photos by Bob Ferguson by CFM International, but additional savings come from aerodynamic hris Leiker joined Boeing in changes to the airplane itself, such as CFebruary after years of working aft body reshaping, use of Advanced on small avionics equipment such as Technology winglets and new systems gyroscopes for the flight deck. Now he to support those changes. is looking forward to putting together These design innovations mean something much bigger—Boeing’s that, to be successful, even seasoned newest single-aisle airplane, the 737 MAX, mechanics would need additional training. which has started production and is “It took a lot of effort by the Operations scheduled to begin final assembly in team,” said Ed Cranford, 737 MAX Renton, Wash., later this year. Operations manager responsible for “When I got my training schedule the training plan. “We broke down the it showed me on the 737 MAX and at changes to the airplane and identified the time I didn’t even know about the all the certification and skills practice airplane,” Leiker said. each mechanic would need.” But that has changed during For example, fiber-optic data months of training that included transmission has limited use on the classroom study, hands-on factory Next-Generation 737, but the technology experience on the Next-Generation is needed for some new systems on the 737 and special skill drills in mock-ups 737 MAX, such as supplying data to new that simulate the new-build areas of large-screen flight-deck displays. the 737 MAX. Now he not only knows Creating teams with a mix of the airplane; he knows he is part of experience was another element in the something special. training plan. “I feel incredibly fortunate to be part “When we started building the of this,” Leiker said. “Building the first Next-Generation 737 we struggled 737 MAX is a story that I’ll share with at first,” Cranford said, “because my grandkids one day.” Leiker is one of several hundred mechanics who are mastering the Photo: Stuart Whiting, 737 MAX mechanic, skills required to build Boeing’s most practices installing wiring in a mock-up of advanced single-aisle airplane, which the reshaped aft body of the 737 MAX.

AUGUST 2015 37 the team was made up of mostly Foldesi said. “Now I get to be part of engineering drawing and the wiring new employees.” As a result of that something brand-new.” when he was practicing on a mock-up experience, 80 percent of the first Preparing for the 737 MAX not for the MAX. He was able to identify group of 737 MAX mechanics have only required building the right team what needed to be changed and share two or more years of experience on with the right skills but also helping that with the MAX Operations team to the Next-Generation 737, so they it foresee the inevitable problem implement a fix. “Being able to identify already understand the 737 production areas. Working through the training, and address those kinds of issues now system—and the safety culture. mechanics already have been able to will save time when the airplane is in Lee Foldesi has been an identify potential issues before they the factory and is a huge advantage,” electrician on the 737 for four years. became problems in the factory. Foldesi said. “My grandfather used to make the For example, during training Foldesi Mechanics are being cross-trained to rivets that held the 737 together,” found a discrepancy between the work multiple positions on the assembly

Photo: Chris Leiker, left, and Lee Foldesi train on a mock-up of the 737 MAX wheel well.

38 Boei ng Frontiers line to minimize downtime between improve efficiency, he also will install MAX production will supplant Next- airplanes as the first 737 MAXs ease wiring at the beginning of assembly. Generation 737 production and all their way into the flow.I t’s a change from “If something needs to be fixed down Renton mechanics will benefit from the current routine, in which mechanics the line, we’ll know where the wiring is the knowledge developed by this work the same position every shift in the located to quickly fix it,” he said. pioneering team. fast-paced, 42-airplanes-a-month flow of As production of the first 737 MAXs Foldesi said he anticipates there the Next-Generation 737. matures, the Operations team has will be bumps in the road, as with any Stuart Whiting will be working in the a plan to slowly transfer employees program. But “being part of the team last position on the production line, working on Next-Generation 737 Final that gets to devise ways to fix them where mechanics test the systems Assembly to the MAX so they can learn for the people coming after—that is and control surfaces of the airplane to on the dedicated MAX production something that I want to be a part of.” n ensure everything works properly. To line. Toward the end of the decade, l [email protected]

AUGUST 2015 39 Advance Australia

Boeing Australia is a model for the company’s international business strategy

Byh As ley Johnson | PHOTOS by TIM Reinhart

hen Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator using a technology called resin W787 took to the skies from Seattle infusion. And that’s also where Boeing last year, some of the innovation and Australia’s research division, working technology tested on the airplane with Commercial Airplanes Product reached all the way to Fishermans Development and Boeing Canada Bend in Melbourne, Australia. Winnipeg, applied lessons from that That’s where Boeing Aerostructures endeavor to use resin infusion for the Australia makes the movable control surfaces on the trailing edge of the Photo: A view from Sydney Harbour showing composite wings of the 787 Dreamliner the Sydney Opera House, left, and city skyline.

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AUGUST 2015 41 composite engine pylon aft fairing for allows us to have significantly reduced “ There is an innovative, the ecoDemonstrator 787. detailed part costs compared to entrepreneurial spirit in Australia, and With resin infusion, dry fiber is the traditional means,” said Mike we do our best to reflect that same injected with resin in an oven using Dickinson, managing director of Boeing spirit in our operations,” said Maureen atmospheric pressure. The technology Aerostructures Australia. “This is the Dougherty, president of Boeing enables complex shapes and contours, only place within Boeing that we’re Australia and South Pacific. “Australia and offers cost and weight savings currently manufacturing components also loves aviation and aerospace, and over the traditional composite using resin infusion and Fishermans Boeing has played and continues to manufacturing process. Bend is a center of excellence for play such an important role here.” What had been a multiple-piece this technology.” With more than 3,000 employees design for the pylon aft fairing became The resin infusion technology is just across 27 sites, Boeing Australia one piece, reducing the weight of one example of how Boeing Australia has the company’s largest footprint the fairing by about 20 percent, with is helping sharpen the company’s outside the United States. Its strong manufacturing cost savings of about innovative edge. And it underscores focus on commercial manufacturing, 50 percent. how important Australia is to Boeing’s defense, and research and technology “That production difference global business—and future success. make it both a microcosm of U.S.

42 Boeing Frontiers operations and a model for Boeing’s nation in its university system, in its established its first overseas subsidiary international business strategy. research systems, is what’s created in Melbourne. The company was Marc Allen, president, Boeing this really healthy ecosystem for us acquired by Boeing in 2000 and International, pointed to Boeing to participate in,” Allen said. subsequently changed to Boeing Australia’s relationships with nine Australia and the United States Aerostructures Australia. universities, the Defence Science and have a long-standing friendship In addition to the movable trailing Technology Organisation, and the and cultural ties, and Boeing has edges for the 787 wings, Boeing Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial been a part of the country’s rich Aerostructures Australia makes Research Organisation—Australia’s aviation history. Douglas Aircraft, ailerons for the 737, movable leading national science agency—as key to a Boeing heritage company, sold a edges for the 747, and elevators development of technology that will DC-2 to Australia in 1936. Qantas, enhance future Boeing products. the country’s flagship carrier, was the Photos: (From far left) Robots drill and “Australia really put its national first international customer for Boeing’s fasten movable trailing edge components focus on research and technology, 707, in 1959. And the roots of Boeing at the Melbourne 787 assembly line; Boeing not just in aerospace but across other Aerostructures Australia date to 1927, employee Glen Bowman works on a C-17 tire industries, and that investment by the when the de Havilland Aircraft Co. at Royal Australian Air Force Base Amberley.

AUGUST 2015 43 A slice of community Learning math can be fun—especially when there’s pizza involved. As part of Boeing’s Global Corporate Citizenship program, Boeing Australia employees in Melbourne and Brisbane partner with the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation to put gardens in school playgrounds, develop textbook curricula, and educate students about where their food comes from and how to prepare it—and that’s where the pizza comes in. Dividing the dough and sauce allows students to grasp fractions in a fun way. “They’re learning about healthy eating, where the products and the produce come from, but reading a recipe also helps with literacy and their numerical skills as well,” said Jo Barron, lead for Global Corporate Citizenship for Boeing Australia. While fostering science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) interest among youth is a major focus of Boeing Australia’s outreach, the company also strengthens the community by supporting efforts to sustain the environment and help veterans. Boeing Global Corporate Citizenship supports the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, which trains and equips citizen scientists for data collection to monitor and protect the health of the iconic coral reef. As part of a long-standing partnership with the Australian War Memorial, Boeing is supporting a civic engagement project to educate kids and adults about the country’s involvement in the Afghanistan conflict. And in partnership with Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, Global Corporate Citizenship funds an outreach program where zookeepers take animals to rural areas, disadvantaged communities, and long-term care facilities for veterans and the elderly, giving people who can’t get to the zoo an opportunity to learn about the environment and enjoy Australia’s indigenous wildlife. n

44 Boei ng Frontiers and rudders for the 777. for Boeing Defense, Space & Security. Many of the parts and assemblies The first of Australia’s 12 Growlers manufactured by Boeing Aerostructures is expected to be delivered in 2017. Australia are on Boeing jets flown by The Growler will fit right in with the country’s airlines. Qantas operates the Australian Defence Force’s mix of 75 Next-Generation 737s and its Boeing aircraft and products, which low-cost subsidiary, Jetstar, soon will includes the C-17 Globemaster III, the have an all-787 fleet for international Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning & routes. Virgin Australia Airlines, part Control aircraft, the CH-47 Chinook of the Virgin Group, has a large fleet helicopter (including the latest “F” of 737s and was the first airline in the model), Harpoon missiles, Joint Direct region to order the 737 MAX. Attack Munitions, and command, The 737, which can fly for up to six control, communications, computers, hours with a range of more than 3,000 intelligence, surveillance and nautical miles (3,500 miles, or 5,600 reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. kilometers), “is a great workhorse for And the Australian government, the region and you see lots of 737s in February 2014, approved the flying to and from Australia,” said acquisition of eight P-8A maritime Dinesh Keskar, senior vice president, patrol and surveillance aircraft based Asia-Pacific andI ndia Sales for on the 737, with the first to be Commercial Airplanes. delivered in 2017. Sydney Airport also is an international As Boeing’s C-17 production in hub, with Boeing jets from all over the Long Beach, Calif., wound down this world flying in and out of the airport spring, the Australian government on Australia’s east coast. Air New announced it would acquire two more Zealand, flagship carrier of Australian of the aircraft, bringing its total to neighbor New Zealand, was the launch eight. In addition to the C-17’s military customer for the longer 787-9 and has capabilities, Australia uses it as a “tool several of the airplanes. of friendship and diplomacy,” Blocher The 787-9 and the new 777X now said, citing the country’s deployment in development will be attractive for of C-17s to provide humanitarian this growing region because they aid following a cyclone on the offer significant fuel efficiency and South Pacific island of Vanuatu and range, and profitability for the airlines, earthquake in Nepal. according to Keskar. Australia plays an important role Along with strong commercial regionally and globally, Blocher noted, prospects, Boeing has a robust adding: “It’s a point of pride that we defense business in Australia. Boeing are right there with them as a company Defence Australia, a Brisbane-based to support their operations.” subsidiary of Boeing Defense, Space Boeing Defence Australia’s recent & Security, is a major supplier to successes are part of a journey that Australia’s military. It’s also home included early setbacks with Boeing’s to advanced modeling, simulation Wedgetail program. The first of the and prototyping capabilities from 737-based aircraft was delivered about Phantom Works. three years late. But Australia now The Australian Defence Force is has all six of its Wedgetails, and they the only customer, other than the are performing well, according to the U.S. Navy, for Boeing’s EA-18 Growler, Royal Australian Air Force. the electronic warfare version of its “We stood behind what our F/A-18 Super Hornet. Australia also was the first international Super Hornet customer. That shows the strength Photos: (From top) Boeing Aerostructures of the relationship between the two Australia employee Shivakumar Lingaiah countries, said Syd Blocher, director assembles a 787 inboard flap; Qantas of Business Development in Australia 737s lined up at Sydney Airport.

AUGUST 2015 45 commitments were and we got it right international research centers, Michael Edwards, general manager and we delivered Wedgetail through specializing in composite materials of Boeing Research & Technology– an enormous amount of work on development and processing; Australia. Robots already are both sides of the Pacific,” said Kim unmanned aircraft systems; performing in-factory composite Gillis, who leads Boeing Defence aircraft maintenance and training repairs, and researchers are looking Australia. Gillis pointed out that Boeing support systems; robotics; and at using small, portable robots to Defence Australia is now the prime network solutions. The Australian perform in-service repairs on contractor on a significant sustainment team spearheaded the resin airplanes in the field. contract for Wedgetail, which further infusion technology used on the About 40 employees with the Boeing underscores the strength and trust ecoDemonstrator 787. research center in Australia work in the relationship. Another area of focus for Boeing with the more than 1,200 employees Australia also is an important Australia’s research team is the at Boeing Aerostructures Australia partner in research and development. application of light robotics for in Melbourne. Likewise, about Boeing Research & Technology– manufacturing and repair automation, 20 researchers are on-site with Boeing Australia was established in 2008 which saves time and reduces Defence Australia, focused on human and is the largest of Boeing’s six ergonomic risks for employees, said factors, unmanned systems, and

46 Boeing Frontiers modeling and simulation research. demands and creating development all that different expertise coming “It’s a fantastic system that helps opportunities for employees. together as one.” us get our current production Edwards added that this partnership That philosophy also helps explain costs lower as we learn,” explained is an advantage that springs from the success of Boeing Australia. n Dickinson, the managing director of the open and collaborative culture ash [email protected] Boeing Aerostructures Australia. “It at Boeing Research & Technology– helps us design better on the next Australia. airplane, and it helps us focus our “We want and, in fact, very research in the areas that provide deliberately build that culture around the biggest opportunities.” mixing the different disciplines of Photos: (From far left) Boeing Aerostructures The partnership allows employees the team with one another so it’s not Australia 787 operators Ryland Robinson, to move back and forth between the just chemists working together or foreground, Aiden Pears, middle, and research organization and Boeing structural engineers working together Clifford Parks inspect a 787 flap jig; Aerostructures Australia, he said, or robotics engineers working Boeing employees work on the Airborne providing flexibility for the business together,” Edwards said. “They’re all Early Warning & Control aircraft at Royal to accommodate changes in work actually working on solutions with Australian Air Force Base Amberley.

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48 Boeing Frontiers meters) away in space. Retro-rocket separation had left lead deposits on A higher orbit the antennas, cutting into performance. Satellite designer Harold Rosen had an idea for global Rosen was asked to help troubleshoot. communication and changed the world He determined that the satellites could be positioned in ways that the b y dan raley sun’s intensity would boil off the lead residue. It was a delicate operation, As Boeing approaches the start time,” Rosen recalled in an interview. needing to be done just right so as of its second century in July 2016, “Telephone service between the U.S. not to hamper the satellite’s antenna Frontiers takes a look at some of the and Europe was expensive and hard to reflector.I t was a clever solution. men and women who helped make come by; you had to basically put in a “He always has these great concepts,” Boeing a global leader in aerospace. reservation just to put in a telephone said Craig Cooning, president of Boeing This series highlights the innovation, call. Transoceanic TV was impossible. Network & Space Systems, “to provide skill and courage needed when “There was a lot to be gained that creative spark to our engineers. daring to do the impossible. by having a satellite system—I still He doesn’t complicate things.” believe this has been the single most A prodigy at a young age, Rosen arold Rosen was told that his newly important service provided by space.” graduated from high school in New Hdesigned geostationary satellite Rosen, who lives in Pacific Orleans when he was 15 and worked wouldn’t work. Other scientists called it Palisades, Calif., with his wife, still on top-secret radar and sonar systems onerous, impractical and unreliable. And drops by his office at Boeing’s satellite as a naval electronics technician for a short time they were right. Syncom factory in nearby El Segundo, where at 18. He developed an interest in I was lost during launch in 1963. Hughes Aircraft, the company founded space technology and exploration as Rosen, however, was determined by Howard Hughes, once made its a graduate student while pursuing to respond to the Soviet Union and its satellites. Rosen went to work at master’s and doctorate degrees at the first-in-space Sputnik satellite, to make Hughes in 1956. California Institute of Technology. inroads, to quell his critics. Working As Boeing prepares to celebrate its His education and military for Boeing heritage company Hughes centennial, Rosen is among the many background took him to Raytheon, Aircraft, he and his team changed men and women who have made where he developed early anti-aircraft the motor, wiring and nitrogen-tank milestone contributions to Boeing and guided missiles, and then for Hughes, pressure. Five months following that its heritage companies. More than where he helped launch the world’s initial setback, Syncom II was put into five decades after his initial success, largest communications satellite orbit and worked perfectly. the man known as the father of the This enabled President John geostationary satellite still holds F. Kennedy to call Nigerian Prime considerable influence in his industry. Photos: (Far left) Harold Rosen, right, with scientist Thomas Hudspeth and the Syncom Minister Abubakar Balewa from the And he lends his expertise to problem- prototype at the top of the Eiffel Tower during the White House, marking the first two- solving on occasion. Paris Air Show in 1961. Boeing Archives (Below) way satellite telephone call between A few years ago, two Boeing-built Harold Rosen still lends his expertise to the heads of state. And with Syncom II satellites weren’t functioning properly as satellite industry and recently helped solve an and newly launched Syncom III linking they orbited 23,000 miles (37,000 kilo antenna interference issue. paul pinner | boeing up, the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo were broadcast on TV live to the United States in black and white. Rosen brought the world closer together. Cellular phones, emails and unlimited cable TV channels all were eventual benefits of his vision for communications satellites in geostationary orbits, where they remain at fixed points above Earth. Global communications would never be the same again. “One of the reasons I was interested in communications for application to space was the sad state of long- distance communications at the

AUGUST 2015 49 business. He later formed Rosen you to the point where they gave you a In a 2008 interview for a feature Motors with his brother, Ben, and piece of equipment that had failed, and about Syncom in Frontiers, Rosen said developed a prototype hybrid electric you diagnosed it, repaired it and put it the proudest moment of his career, at powertrain for automobiles. He holds back together real fast. It was hands-on Hughes and later Boeing, came at the more than 80 patents, most of them practical experience. That, combined NBC studios in Burbank, Calif., when related to satellites. with my education, led me to have he watched the first live broadcast of “The U.S. Navy years were very confidence. I still have that confidence.” the 1964 Olympic Games from Tokyo— important years for me,” he said. “The Rosen went on to direct the made possible by the two Syncom Navy taught you how to maintain newly development of more than 150 satellites orbiting Earth. acquired electronics, which were secret communications satellites before “At the end of such a struggle it was at the time and amazing at times. It got retiring as a vice president in 1993. a moment where I was really proud,” he

50 Boeing Frontiers circuit and back. He bounces on a concepts and ideas that provide trampoline at home. He talks of some day value overall,” Cooning said. “A becoming the world’s fastest centenarian lot of times he’ll come up with runner. He’s counting on others to things so fundamental and simple, discover a life extension for him. and you look at it and say, ‘Why “I’m hoping people working on anti- couldn’t we think of that?’ ” aging devices speed up their act,” he said. d [email protected] Rosen has plenty of new challenges to address. Besides offering his Know of any Boeing or heritage satellite expertise, he’s looking for company trailblazers you’d like to ways to detect and use gravitational see interviewed in future issues of waves, bring more water to Southern Frontiers? Send suggestions and a California, use climate engineering to brief note about their contributions cool the planet, and deliver the Internet to [email protected]. to those who don’t have it. He is convinced people should be connected, which was his initial premise when he came up with the idea Photos: (Left) One of the challenges Harold Rosen has taken on is connecting everyone in for Syncom. It’s good for the planet, he the world to the Internet, which was his initial said. Give everyone the Internet and premise for Syncom. Pu a l Pinner | Boeing who knows where it might lead. (Below) Rosen celebrates the 10th anniversary “What I find interesting about him of the launch of Syncom, which became is, even today, he’s coming up with operational in 1963. c ourtesy of harold rosen

recalled in that interview. Today, Rosen works two days a week as a Boeing consultant. He meets monthly with Cooning and is always armed with paperwork filled with sketches and different schematics. He has plenty of new ideas to share. Rosen also tries to maintain a high level of physical fitness. An Internet video shows him on a California beach, impressively swinging through a ring

AUGUST 2015 51 M ilestones S ervice Awards: Boeing recognizes the following employees in August for their years of service.

50 years Mark Crader Joan Landry Gerald Seth Mehdy Barekatein Jacqueline Coulter Raymond Klein Edwin Cribby John Larson Barbara Sharpe Kenneth Barlow Rodney Crater George Perry Anne Crosby Michael Lebens Dwayne Sherry Bret Barton Daniel Creveling Kelly Crowley Barbara Lippel Stuart Shreve Ann Bassetti Robert Curtis 45 years Shane Cuda Michael Lloyd Michael Shull Mark Baumgartner Kirk Dalgaard John Boman Gary Czerwonka Don Louis Kenneth Simmons Christopher Beamis Philip Davenport Bertha Calderon Michael DeGrenier Rolf Lunde Bruce Simpson Robert Bender James Dawson Cecil Caviezel Michael Delachapelle Craig Madden Vicki Simpson Gerald Bennett Donald De Curtis Charles Miller John Didio John Malkus Carl Smith Margene Bennett Allan Defrates David Morgan William Dill Peter Maloney James Snow Bonnie Benton Terry Denardo John Schacht William Emerson Michele Marquardt Elden Stark Susan Bergman Robert Denesen Donald Erickson Alan Marx Sue Stenger Robert Berres Michael Deymonaz 40 years Jamie Ferguson Bruce Matznick Thomas Stephens Robert Berry Brian Didier Keith Browning Thomas Ferrari Gary Michal Richard Stine Patricia Beszhak Loan Do Glenn Bulmahn Geoffrey Fischer Brian Michel Mark Swenson Mark Beyer Long Do Thomas Chandler William Foreman Gregory Miller Scott Swisshelm Parkash Bhaya Michael Doellefeld Giuseppe Colabufalo Lawrence Friedman Stephen Miller Dennis Szeto Ben Biddle Robert Doerr Ronald Goodman Anthony Garofalo Irene Minalia Michael Taylor Andrew Blair Linda Donegan Billie Grooms Dann Gately Sueann Misiak Robert Teschner Scott Blank James Dougherty Phillip Holzbaur Larry Gates Bryan Mitchell Mark Thomas Gary Blattenbauer Daniel Downey Franklin Jones Charles Geam Ralph Mohr Cheri Tjoelker Daniel Bloch Steven Drllevich Michael Kress Jefty Geller Robert Moody Thomas Tootle Mark Bochantin Michael Dwyer Billy Miles Mark Ghanooni Garry Moore Maryanne Torgerson Edward Bolish Karen Elliott Robert Olsen Jeffrey Gochenour Kelly Moore James Trout James Bottles Brian Ellis Dennis Powell David Goodson Terrence Moore Christine Turner Joe Box Michael Emanuel Rickey Pringle James Goss Carol Moskitis Raymond Turpin Michael Boyd John Ennes Stephen Ramseur Frank Gosson Geraldine Muir Charles Vahldick Christopher Brawand Robert Erickson Charles Grieser Olga Muniz Barend Vankeppel Raymond Brown Aaron Esparza 35 years Donald Gross David Murphy Karl Varga Stephen Brown Peter Everett Gerald Ackerman Otto Gruber Neenah Nash Steven Vaughn Timothy Brown Raymond Fagain Keith Adelsberger Jeffrey Hanada Leland Ness Laraine Volpe Lewis Brye Luis Famatiga Belinda Allen James Hartley Ralph Neun Kent Wagahoff John Buchanan Ramon Fietkau Catherine Allen James Hickman Kenneth Neuschaefer Gregory Weiler Daniel Buder Stephen Filippetti Brad Arbaugh Victor Hill Christopher Ohlweiler Madeleine Wiley Jeffrey Burkher Dorothea Fitzsimmons Robert Argyle Richard Hodgson Aaron Paul Debora Winston- Kevin Burns Michael Fitzsimmons Christopher Arntz Jeffrey Hofeditz Wayne Pegg Farago Jacques Buttin Michael Fleming David Baer Jorge Holguin Kenneth Peoples Donald Wissbrod Stephen Byrne Edward Floretta Elvin Barnes Kathleen Holle Steven Peterson David Zajic Stephen Calvano Thomas Flynn Douglas Bender Keith Holtrop Brian Pigg Larry Zimmerman Kurt Cantarano Thomas Freed Wesley Bernard Kenneth Hoormann Lauris Plorins Wayne Capizzi Caryl French Michael Bertsch Joseph Hrin Mirko Popovic 30 years Neal Carlson David French Byron Billingsley Paul Huddleston Sharimae Prince Jeffery Aceto Nikkie Castaneda Mary Fridley Robin Blanchard Robert Indelicato Gregory Przygoda Michael Acosta Edward Celentano Bruce Fritchman Paul Blasi Katherine Jacobs Reynold Quedado Ernesto Acosta- Keith Chaet Jeffrey Fukushima Andrew Bourgeois Dorothy Johnson Frank Rasor Herrera Jamie Chakrabarty John Gibbons Sharon Brown Cindy Jones Steven Reiling Stephan Ahnert Kathryn Chinn Gregory Gleason Michael Cahill Timothy Kelley Anthony Ricciardi Claudia Alderman Susanna Chung Kimberly Goedhart Jon Campbell Jeffery Kliewer Robert Richardson Michael Alexander Rick Chunn Nathan Goforth William Campbell Thomas Klingler Debbie Richey Don Alverson Darren Clanton Hector Gonzalez Han Chau Wayne Koistinen Richard Rindero Kimberley Ames Thomas Clark Weldon Gooden Steven Chucker Daryn Kono Richard Rootz Jarrel Anderson James Clayton William Goodman Michael Coggins Terry Kottwitz Donald Ryther Jon Anderson Perry Clews Benjamin Gorena Jacquelyn Cole William Krings Danny Salo Carol Andrew Gerald Clifton Lori Grad Bradley Collecchi Thomas Kulik Michael Saputo Anastasia Arseniev Edward Coleman Connie Grant Eugene Cook Kenneth Kunce Edward Sblendorio Genevieve Atler Keith Coleman Alton Graves Steven Cook Richard Lamarre Jerome Schmelzer Norman Azose Ronald Collins Michael Greenwood Theodore Corwin Roderick Lammers William Schuler Albert Bajocich Gregory Compton Janet Griffin

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