Finally the steel is flowing upward like a
river at the Everett site for the 777X Wing plant. It’s next to its 777
assembly building. Once you see the steel, the tangible building starts to
emerge. Next year at this time, another photo of the site will reveal Boeing's
future with a new building on deck.
Before the steel came was the clutter of
preparation as shown compared with the Main Production Building in the
background. It's one of the World's largest facilities. A super large Walmart
would fit in one corner as shown in the right of photo the exposed corner of
the building. The store would fit within the roofs white outlined rectangle
marked by black roof lines. Even at that it would only have the height of about
a fourth of the way up the wall. That is a tremendous scale. Below is (right
center) the construction lot for the new wing plant. It is being erected with
steel at this time. The building footprint looks relatively small compared to
the assembly building. But it isn't small at all.
However in itself, it will dwarf most
warehousing buildings found in cities today. Use the parked cars for scale in
the lots around the building, and work site. This is big with additional size
already in place. The tangible capital commitment is in pictures at Everett. It’s
the aviation wars equivalent of a max effort for winning the sales battle in
the air.
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