Boeing Plant 2 Roof

The solar panels generate up to 2 6 megawatts of energy to power the entire plant as well as the giant autoclaves used to produce the 787 fuselage.

Boeing plant 2 roof. Boeing top priority. Plant 2 was built in 1936 and went on to host the production of some of boeing s key aircraft in the decades to follow. Boeing plant 2 also known as air force plant 17 was a factory building which was built in 1936 by the boeing company in king county washington in the united states. 2 where thousands of b 17 bombers were produced.

By the time production ceased in the building the plant had built half of the boeing b 17 flying fortresses the boeing 307s the boeing 377s some of the boeing b 29 superfortresses boeing b 50 superfortresses b 47. New aircraft perform their first flight from the adjacent renton municipal airport and are then flown to boeing field for customer preparation. Planes manufactured in at this site include the 307 377 and the initial 737. The neighborhood was completed in 1944 and removed a year after.

The everett wash facility is home to the 747 767 777 and 787 dreamliner production lines and is the world s largest building by volume. A close up look would reveal that it was camouflage for boeing s plant no. Built during world war ii boeing s fake town hides the aircraft manufacturer s production facility below which is the cumulative size of eight football fields. The 737 final assembly building when built was at the time the largest building in the world by volume.

Under this detailed walkable camouflage roof of fake housing boeing b 17 flying fortresses were being produced in 1942 1945. Public tours of boeing s everett factory are available seven days a week. Houses streets and plants were assembled like stage props out of plywood clapboard chicken wire and burlap covering the plant s roof during world war ii. The two women show the.

Visitors will see airplanes being built for our worldwide base of airline customers. Joyce was a receptionist for boeing s engineering department and the woman behind her is her good friend who worked in another division at boeing. Up to 20 percent of that energy is supplied by more than 18 00 thin film solar panels approximately 10 acres installed on the roof of the 787 final assembly building. In a bid to provide camouflage for boeing s plant 2 a 26 acre make believe small town was constructed.

Over the camouflaged boeing plant number 2. In order to produce the twin engined boeing 737 a new assembly line was built in 1966 at renton and the plant is still building the boeing 737 family.