Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has been docked at the International Space Station (ISS) for nearly a month, with NASA and its commercial partner repeatedly delaying the launch of the crew aboard the capsule. Despite the indefinite postponement of Starliner’s return flight, NASA and Boeing insist the spacecraft is fully operational, capable of returning to Earth at … Read more
The complex three-way deal announced late Sunday night to split Spirit AeroSystems between Boeing and Airbus, returning the huge Boeing manufacturing facilities it sold two decades ago, was engineered by Spirit AeroSystems CEO Pat Shanahan. Just four months after Boeing announced its intention to take back most of this critical supplier, Shanahan secured the deal … Read more
By Tim Hepher, Shivani Tanna and Mike Stone (Reuters) – Boeing agreed to buy back Spirit AeroSystems for $4.7 billion in stock and Airbus moved to take over the supplier’s losing operations focused on Europe, sending shares in the top three companies to a split of rarely transatlantic. The nearly two-decade independence of the world’s … Read more
Boeing said Monday it had agreed to buy a major supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, ending a nearly two-decade experiment in outsourcing the production of key components of its commercial jets, including the fuselage of the 737 Max and parts of the 767, 777 and 787. In buying Spirit, Boeing hopes to curb the quality problems that … Read more
Two decades after Boeing sold its large aircraft subassembly plants in Wichita, Kan., and Tulsa, Okla., and created what became Spirit AeroSystems, the company announced late Sunday that it has reached an agreement to buy those Spirit core units and bring that work back home In a memo to Boeing employees Sunday night, CEO Dave … Read more
Two American astronauts have been delayed aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as engineers try to fix problems with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. Starliner is a joint project between Boeing and the American space agency NASA. of capsule arrived at the ISS on June 6. He had left the day before from Cape Canaveral in Florida. … Read more
Unfinished fuselages for the Boeing 737 during production at the Spirit AeroSystems plant in Wichita, Kan. Courtesy of Spirit AeroSystems hide title change the subtitles Courtesy of Spirit AeroSystems WASHINGTON – Boeing has reached an agreement to buy Spirit AeroSystems, one of its main suppliers, reuniting the aerospace giant with the plant that makes the … Read more