Boeing to focus on factory safety and quality at FIA2024
Above: Boeing will have two differently configured F-15QA fighter jets at FIA2024 performing aerial demos.
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Dr Brendan Nelson AO, president of Boeing Global, said: "We are concentrated on implementing our comprehensive safety and quality plan and meeting our customer commitments.
"With these priorities in mind, we have reduced our commercial airplanes display and flight demonstrations at the show and will focus on new technology, sustainability, security and services solutions. The best way to build trust is through high-quality performance in our factories, one airplane at a time."
Airshow visitors to Boeing's exhibit will experience immersive and fully interactive product and technology displays spanning Boeing's portfolio, featuring:
- Sustainability technologies, including the X-66 Sustainable Flight Demonstrator, Boeing ecoDemonstrator and Cascade data-visualisation tool to inform decarbonisation strategies
- F-15 and other defence product and service experiences
- Cabin products and demonstrations of Boeing's joint all-domain command and control and environmental modelling capabilities
- Boeing's portfolio of freighter programmes
- A full-size 777X interior section
Boeing-produced products on display will include:
- F-15QA fighter jet with two differently configured aircraft performing aerial demonstrations
- Qatar Airways 787-9 Dreamliner on static display
- In the US Department of Defense (DoD) corral, a US Air Force F-15E, US Army AH-64E Apache, CH-47F Chinook and US Navy P-8A Poseidon
- Wisk Aero, a wholly-owned Boeing subsidiary, will exhibit its four-seat Generation 6 autonomous eVTOL air taxi
Conference
Boeing executives will participate in the airshow conference agenda on topics including sustainability, future aerospace technologies and supply chain:
- Todd Citron, Boeing Chief Technology Officer, will deliver a keynote address on next-generation technology at 10:20am on 22nd July at the Aerospace Global News (AGN) Theatre
- Brad Surak, vice president of Boeing Digital Aviation Solutions and Boeing Chief Sustainability Officer Brian Moran will speak at 10:00am and 11:00am respectively on 23rd July at the Aerospace Global Forum
- Ihssane Mounir, senior vice president for Global Supply Chain and Fabrication, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, will speak at 12:30pm on 23rd July at the McKinsey chalet
- Brian Yutko, Wisk Chief Executive Officer, will join a panel discussion on advanced air mobility at 11:45am on 23rd July in the AGN Theatre
Pioneers of Tomorrow
As an official partner of Pioneers of Tomorrow at Farnborough on Friday 26th July, Boeing will host a series of talks dedicated to STEM outreach hosted in collaboration with UK-based charitable partner, Primary Engineer. The sessions will showcase routes and opportunities into aerospace careers.
