{"id":36,"date":"2004-07-09T14:39:15","date_gmt":"2004-07-09T21:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/07\/09\/field-trip-to-boeing\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T16:36:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T00:36:19","slug":"field-trip-to-boeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2004\/07\/field-trip-to-boeing\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Trip to Boeing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m on the W3C<\/span><\/acronym>\u2019s Advis\u00adory Board<\/a> (which, as its title sug\u00adgests, gives advice to the W3C<\/span> Team on vari\u00adous mat\u00adters, as well as pro\u00adpos\u00ading edits to the Pro\u00adcess Doc\u00adu\u00adment for W3C<\/span>). We hold a few meet\u00adings each year, mostly timed to coin\u00adcide with lar\u00adger W3C<\/span> meet\u00adings such as the Tech\u00adnic\u00adal Plen\u00adary week, or the Advis\u00adory Com\u00admit\u00adtee meet\u00adings. This week\u2019s meet\u00ading was two days, just for us, and hos\u00adted by Boe\u00ading (thanks to Ann Bas\u00adsetti, who put in an immense amount of work to find the right facil\u00adity!). And Ann man\u00adaged to get us on the last fact\u00adory tour that was allowed to go on the fact\u00adory floor. Future tours will only be allowed to watch from the mezzan\u00adine level.<\/p>\n

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The AB<\/span><\/acronym> meet\u00ading itself went reas\u00adon\u00adably well; we dis\u00adcussed a lot of issues and came up with recom\u00admend\u00ada\u00adtions for W3C<\/span>. I must admit though, the fact\u00adory tour was much more mem\u00ador\u00adable than the meet\u00ading itself.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had a soft spot for air\u00adplanes since being part of a pro\u00adject at Lufthansa back in 1993\u20134, when I was an SGML<\/span> con\u00adsult\u00adant in Ger\u00admany. Fly\u00ading these days is unpleas\u00adant but that\u2019s the fault of the air\u00adlines, the inef\u00adfi\u00adcient secur\u00adity, and the long line-ups rather than the planes them\u00adselves. Vis\u00adit\u00ading a fact\u00adory allows you to ima\u00adgine the romance of air travel without being con\u00adfron\u00adted with the unpleas\u00adant real\u00adity of today\u2019s air travel. There are some truly cool things about the mech\u00adan\u00adics of fit\u00adting planes togeth\u00ader as well. At the end of the tour we got to see a 737 without wings, and the wings sep\u00adar\u00adately, and see where they put the bolts and riv\u00adets in that hold the wing to the plane. This is not some\u00adthing you want to look at if you\u2019re nervous about fly\u00ading. The engin\u00adeers on the tour explained the spe\u00adcific\u00ada\u00adtions and how much they\u2019re all over-engin\u00adeered, but there were still a couple of nervous faces. Until it was poin\u00adted out that there are some 5000 737s out there, and the wings have nev\u00ader fallen off any of them.<\/p>\n

Boe\u00ading has made a big deal of its new sys\u00adtems to build planes, as pub\u00adlished in Boe\u00ading Fron\u00adti\u00aders \u2014 Get\u00adting Lean<\/a>. Watch\u00ading this sys\u00adtem in action was impress\u00adive \u2014 you can really see the planes move. It was also fun to see some of the engin\u00adeer\u00ading sys\u00adtems they have in place to cope with the mov\u00ading planes \u2014 they reminded me of the sys\u00adtems research phys\u00adics accel\u00ader\u00adat\u00adors use to cope with mov\u00ading parts there. Good to see there is some bene\u00adfit to fun\u00adda\u00adment\u00adal phys\u00adics research ;-).<\/p>\n

And yes, they do use the web as well. All part of the \u201cLean\u201d philosophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The W3C<\/span> Advis\u00adory Board meet\u00ading was at Boe\u00ading this week. Ann Bas\u00adsetti man\u00adaged to get us in for a fact\u00adory tour at Renton (near Seattle), which was a lot of fun as well as being informative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}