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	Boeing Field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Named after the founder of the Boeing Company, William E. Boeing, it was Seattle's main passenger airport from its construction until Seattle-Tacoma International Airport began operations in the late 1940s, with the exception of the World War II period, when it was taken over by the U.S. government.
		Boeing continues to use the field for testing and delivery of its airplanes, and it is still a major regional cargo hub.
		A proposal by Southwest Airlines in June 2005 was submitted to King County to relocate their operations in the Seattle area from Sea-Tac to Boeing Field, but was rejected by King County Executive Ron Sims in October.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boeing_Field (318 words)

	Boeing 777 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Boeing 777 is a family of long-range wide-body twin-engine airliners built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
		In the 1970s, Boeing unveiled new models: the twin-engine 757 to replace the venerable 727, the twin-engine 767 to challenge the Airbus A300, and a trijet 777 to compete with the DC-10 and the Lockheed TriStar.
		Singapore Airlines is currently the largest operator of the Boeing 777 family with 58 in service, of which 46 are of the 777-200ER variant and 12 are 777-300s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boeing_777 (2941 words)

	The Seattle Times: Boeing/aerospace: Boeing Field beads damage new jet engines
		Boeing has had to replace as many as 10 damaged 737 engines and is examining the engines of the last 757 ever built to see if it, too, is affected.
		Boeing Field, officially King County International Airport, is owned and maintained by the county.
		Boeing and airport staff walked the runway and found that along one stretch — taxiway Bravo, on the west side of the runway —; beads were separating from the paint.
	o.seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/boeingaerospace/2002123625_boeingfield18.html (798 words)

	The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Southwest Airlines weighs relocation to Boeing Field
		But yesterday's announcement is sure to cause controversy because of the potential for more noise at Boeing Field and the loss of revenue for Sea-Tac, which recently spent $4 billion to increase its capacity in part to accommodate the growth of airlines such as Southwest.
		Boeing Field, used mostly for small planes and cargo carriers, hasn't had significant commercial traffic since Horizon Air flew there in the 1970s.
		As a relief airport to Sea-Tac, Boeing Field is sometimes used during the winter to handle commercial flights.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/businesstechnology/2002336439_airport15.html (723 words)

	Boeing: The Boeing Company and China Home
		Boeing has given the college two multi-million dollar 737 simulators, which are used to complete training for instructor pilots.
		Boeing leadership was effective in promoting U.S. approval of China 's accession to the World Trade Organization and permanent normal trade relations between the US and China.
		Boeing China, Inc., has its main office in Beijing with field service representatives through China, support teams in Beijing and selected factories, a flight training center in Kunming, spares center in Beijing and joint ventures in Xiamen and Tianjin.
	www.boeing.com /companyoffices/aboutus/boechina.html (1747 words)

	Boeing Field GA Pilots Fear Squeeze From Southwest
		GA operators at Seattle's Boeing Field say Southwest Airlines' bid to relocate to their airport would push out small aircraft.
		Southwest is pushing for a move to Boeing Field because it claims the costs of operation at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are too high.
		And that, claims the Friends of Boeing Field, will mean the end of GA at the airport.
	www.avweb.com /newswire/11_41b/briefs/190777-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS (217 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Boeing Field, Seattle's first municipal airport, is dedicated on July 26, 1928.
		Boeing Field, Seattle's first municipal airport, is dedicated on July 26, 1928.
		Boeing won its own national air mail contract a year later (planting the seed for United Airlines), just as the Navy took over King County's Sand Point field, then the region's major landing strip.
		The area of Boeing Field was well served by three rail lines and by Highway 99 and it was near water for use by seaplanes.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=2077 (464 words)

	Museum of Flight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Museum of Flight is an air and space museum at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington.
		On its grounds is the Red Barn, Boeing's original manufacturing plant.
		A previous project, the only flyable Boeing 247 in existence, is based from the airfield at the restoration center.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Museum_of_Flight (208 words)

	U.S. Senator Patty Murray - Sen. Murray Announces $3.5 Million Grant to Repair Boeing Field (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		During the earthquake, Boeing Field sustained significant damage to approximately one-third of the runway, which reduced the useable length from 10,000 to 4,700 feet.
		Boeing Field is the primary commercial airport in the Northwest, with an average of 26,000 cargo planes utilizing the field annually.
		It is also used for charter flights, general aviation, and as a test strip for Boeing aircraft.
	www.senate.gov /member/wa/murray/general/news.cfm?id=189524 (284 words)

	King County International Airport - Boeing Field, Seattle Washington USA
		All Boeing 737s and 757s are delivered from this field.
		On this day, a B773 in Boeing colors was visible to the right of this flight line.
		The Boeing Field Delivery line on May 30, 1998.
	www.cruisinaltitude.com /airports/bfiwaus.htm (246 words)

	Big plans in the wings spell major changes at Boeing Field
		A bigger passenger terminal and a parking garage would be among the changes needed to accommodate Southwest Airlines at Boeing Field.
		Some tenants at Boeing Field liken the possible change to plopping a skyscraper in the middle of a small town -- something that would dramatically change both the landscape and the culture.
		Southwest's current operations would boost Boeing Field traffic by roughly 10 percent and total jet flights by nearly 40 percent, according to airport statistics.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/231277_boeingfield05.html (1829 words)

	Northwest Flying Tips - Boeing Field Reporting Points
		If you are planning to fly to Boeing Field for the first time, or learning to fly there, you will need to know about the reporting points the BFI tower commonly uses.
		The VA Hospital is a large, mostly-white, boxy and fairly prominent structure that sits on a ridge northeast of Boeing Field.
		Since Boeing Field is bordered by higher terrain on both its east and west (and since you need to approach fairly low due to the overlaying SeaTac Class Bravo), it's very difficult to see the airport itself until you're nearly upon it.
	drizzle.com /~davidh/flying/northwestflyingtips/reportingpoints.html (471 words)

	Boeing Field Aircraft Pilot Rescue by Tukwila Fire Ladder54
		The Cessna airplane was flying into Tukwila's Boeing Field that morning and struck the high power lines.
		His flight into [Tukwila] Boeing Field was Warren's final trip from Silverdale, where he lives, to a crane operator's job he'd just quit at a shipyard near Boeing Field.
		At Boeing Field he would pick up his car and drive to his job at Duwamish Shipyard on West Marginal Way.
	www.ladder54.com /Photosplane.htm (2142 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: Alaska tries to one-up Southwest at Boeing Field
		The airlines are eyeing the same piece of land next to the current terminal at Boeing Field, which is officially known as King County International Airport.
		Southwest Airlines and King County had been discussing the possibility of a move to Boeing Field for more than a year, with the airline complaining that the costs at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are out of control and significantly higher than at all of the other airports it uses.
		She said that airport officials understand why airlines are considering adding service there to compete with Southwest, but "moving airlines to Boeing Field doesn't maintain a level competitive playing field.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002538124_alaska04m.html (892 words)

	RedOrbit - Technology - So Long, Southwest? Boeing Field Beckons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Boeing Field's northern approach is mostly over water and the Duwamish industrial area.
		--Close to downtown: Boeing Field is closer to downtown Seattle (five miles) than Hobby Airport is to downtown Houston (seven miles), Chicago's Midway is to the Loop (10 miles), Burbank Airport is to downtown Los Angeles (15 miles) and La Guardia is to midtown Manhattan (nine miles).
		The Boeing Co. uses Boeing Field as a testing and delivery center for its Commercial Aircraft Division, and air express companies UPS and DHL base their Seattle operations there.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=171139&source=r_technology (1796 words)

	Getting To Seattle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This assumes that your destination is Boeing Field, but much of the information also pertains to some of the other local airports, or just passing through.
		I usually fly past Auburn on the east side of the field, since the Auburn traffic pattern is to the west, and the SeaTac Bravo is awfully close by on the west side of the airport.
		If your destination is Boeing Field, you will want to avoid flying directly over the tall buildings in downtown Seattle (some of them are filled with paranoid people and TV news reporters), so plan to swing either west or east of the downtown skyline.
	drizzle.com /~davidh/flying/northwestflyingtips/approachingseattle.html (2906 words)

	HeraldNet: Paine Field boosters press on for airlines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But Boeing Field airport is small, said Harold Taniguchi, King County's transportation director who oversees Boeing Field, also called King County International Airport.
		The hangars are full, and Boeing Field thrives as a general aviation airport, he said.
		Boeing Field is closer to the city of Seattle, and close-in airports fit our business model better," said Marilee McInnis, a Southwest spokeswoman.
	www.heraldnet.com /stories/05/07/05/100loc_paine001.cfm (2102 words)

	USATODAY.com - Alaska Air could also move to Boeing Field (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alaska Air Group said Monday that it still doesn't agree large-scale passenger service at Boeing Field is a good idea.
		Sims' office hopes to complete preliminary studies by the end of the year on potential noise, traffic and economic impacts from expanded commercial service at Boeing Field.
		Boeing Field, formally called King County International Airport, currently serves a mix of private, cargo and corporate planes.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/flights/2005-10-04-alaska-boeing_x.htm?csp=34 (509 words)

	Alliance Formed to Oppose Commercial Passenger Service at Boeing Field
		The Alliance was formed in response to a recent Southwest Airlines proposal to build a passenger terminal and parking garage at Boeing Field in order to accommodate 85 Southwest flights a day.
		Boeing Field is owned and operated by King County.
		"Anyone looking at the proposal to turn Boeing Field into a busy commercial airport cannot, with a straight face, expect the public to believe that taxpayer dollars are not going to be required," said Bob Wallace, CEO of Wallace Properties in Bellevue and a member of the Alliance steering committee.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/08-23-2005/0004092961&EDATE= (1109 words)

	Pacific Publishing Company - Southwest Airlines says move to Boeing Field a good deal all around
		Sweetening the deal for its con-troversial proposed move to Boeing Field, Southwest Airlines pledged Aug. 18 to use only the quietest of Boeing jets, to not schedule red-eye flights and to use GPS technology to route southbound flights over Elliott Bay if its proposed move to Boeing Field is successful.
		A Southwest move to Boeing Field would be good for the airport as well, according to Ricks.
		Ricks described the call from Alaska and Horizon to shift their operations to Boeing Field as a political move intended to kill the Southwest deal.
	www.zwire.com /site/tab1.cfm?BRD=855&dept_id=513931&newsid=15139823&PAG=461&rfi=9 (1276 words)

	Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
		While the Martin B-10 bomber seemed adequate at the time to defend the continental United States, with great foresight Boeing designed an altogether heavier, faster, higher-flying, and longer-range bomber, which proved to be invaluable in the strategic air battles over Germany.
		Boeing started design work on its Model 299 in June, 1934; just over a year later the first flight of the prototype took place at Boeing Field, July 28, 1935.
		Because of the pressing demand for the Flying Fortress, Boeing provided blueprints and cooperation for the B-17 to be built at the Douglas plant in Long Beach and the Vega plant in Burbank.
	www.acepilots.com /planes/b17.html (3760 words)

	Raylene - My Boeing Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is summer of 1990, Seattle hosted the Goodwill Games that year, this brought Russian and American athletes together, I took a week off to watch the competition in Basketball, Volleyball and Track and Field, it was a nice time to see these world-class athletes up close and in person.
		In this photo I am here at Boeing Field working in the Flight Test and Crew Training organization.
		This is one of the few "early" photos of me at Boeing, the flight test photographer just caught me walking toward one of the airplanes.
	www.home.earthlink.net /~raylenet (228 words)

	Alaska Airlines And Horizon Air Request Equal Access To Boeing Field
		SEATTLE — Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air notified the King County Council today of their request for equal access to Boeing Field, formally known as King County International Airport, with the intent of operating as many as 100 departures a day from the county-owned facility.
		The start of Alaska and Horizon operations out of Boeing Field is largely dependent on when facilities at Boeing Field could be built to handle such a dramatic surge in flight activity and the accompanying passenger traffic it would generate.
		How such improvements and additional security and air traffic control would be funded is another unknown, since Alaska believes the county is obligated to accommodate, on a reasonable and nondiscriminatory basis, its application and those of other airlines to operate from Boeing Field.
	www.alaskasworld.com /newsroom/asnews/asstories/AS_20050721_123330.asp (515 words)

	Southwest to buy quiet jetliners for Boeing Field
		Hoping to head off concerns from neighborhoods under Boeing Field's flight paths, Southwest Airlines has committed to buying enough next-generation Boeing 737 planes to make its flights from the county-owned airport as quiet as possible.
		In a letter to King County, which is considering whether to allow the low-cost carrier to begin passenger service at Boeing Field, the airline also guaranteed it would not schedule "red eye" flights that could disturb people's sleep.
		Robert Bismuth, a Boeing Field pilot who lives in Magnolia, said the airline's commitment to fly an over-water route doesn't help neighborhoods close to or south of the airport.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/237635_southwest23.html (770 words)

	Amazon.com: Boeing: Books: Guy Norris,Mark Wagner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The story of the Boeing Company, from its formative years building canvas-bodied biplanes to its current status as a multinational giant, will fascinate readers with details on the technical challenges the company has surmounted over the years and the breakthrough advances it has introduced to the aviation industry.
		The same rabid fidelity is heard from Boeing airliner pilots often and, we all have heard of the legendary Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress' rugged durability in battle during World War II.
		The history of Boeing is really good driven by the authors, and the history of each plane is very detailed and easy to read.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0760304971?v=glance (1608 words)

	USATODAY.com - Southwest plans own, new terminal at Seattle's Boeing Field (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Dallas-based low-cost carrier would own and maintain the planned eight-gate terminal at Boeing Field, officially known as King County International Airport.
		He noted that per-passenger fees have nearly doubled to $10 and are expected to continue rising, while the fees at Boeing Field would be about $5, similar to Southwest's systemwide average.
		It hopes to begin operations at Boeing Field in 2009.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/news/2005-07-22-swa-sea_x.htm (656 words)

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