GUNNER Posted February 23, 2002 Share Posted February 23, 2002 Well today, like every other month since November. More boeing employees are getting laid off. The thing is today some of them are guys and gals I have know for close to 13 years. It's starting to hit a little closer to home now as the cut-off line gets closer to me. Most of these people I'll never see again.... This is just the few people I know personaly. So far over 150 people just from my building have been laid off... So with out further adu. Here are some of my buddies.. Gary Heier Jill Finseth Darryl Baker Bryan Edgerton Viki Doubek Rafael Ruiz Bill Harlan Jerome Ward Don Register Ken Patnude Andy Hogenson And a few going back to previous jobs with in the company.. Mark Vance Rory Fletcher Dan Sargent Next month I'll have a new list. Good luck to you all ,I hope you find what your looking for out of life. Jim Smith Auburn,Washington.. Fab. Division. Wing Responsibility Center 17-06 building Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted February 23, 2002 Share Posted February 23, 2002 As a friend of Gunner/Jim, I too wish you all the best. Good luck on your future endevors. (and I know i spelt that wrong. Sue me, I'm not an English Major. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted February 23, 2002 Share Posted February 23, 2002 Wow. That's really rough,.. but a reality of the times we live in, I guess. Good luck all. Let's all hope things turn around in a big way real soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted February 23, 2002 Share Posted February 23, 2002 I read that easyJet (I think it was them) is currently speaking to both Boeing and Airbus concerning the purchase of some new planes and Southwest just rehired 4000 people. Maybe the airline industry is starting to get back together. I'm curious Gunner. What exactly do you do? I know it has something to do with wings. Any wings? 737 wings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNNER Posted February 23, 2002 Author Share Posted February 23, 2002 I cut out the wing skins for the planes. Right now the machine I run cuts out panels for the 737-800 but every machine( there are 11 of them) cuts different parts. so depending on what machine I run it can be parts for any plane. I'm cutting the enclosure panels. If you were to look at the wing from underneath it's the panel with all the access holes so you can get into the wing to inspect it. The parts are about 60 feet long and about 4 feet wide and an inch think. After cutting they are about .500 to .100 thick. Some of the 777 and 747 panel are over 100 feet long and 6 feet wide.. That's a hunk of aluminum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted February 23, 2002 Share Posted February 23, 2002 That's pretty neat. I know what panel you're talking about (sort of). A few years ago I toured Pittsburgh International and I got to have a look at a USAir 737-400 inside and out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNNER Posted February 23, 2002 Author Share Posted February 23, 2002 On the bottom of the wing there are 3 panels that make up the wing on a 737. The part numbers are A4101, A4102 and A4103. This does not include the leading edge and alerons, or is it flaps? It will have a cover about 10 inches wide and 18 inches long. And there are 21 of them. There easy to spot. The 747 has over 40 of these cut outs in the wing. It's rerally a pretty neat job biut gets old fast ,just like anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted February 23, 2002 Share Posted February 23, 2002 Flaps are the part close into the fuselage and the ailerions are the part on the rest of the trailing edge. Judging from what I remember, the flaps, ailerions, and leading edges are an insane amount of pieces themselves. The 737 seemed huge to me. I've never been up close to a 747 (seen British Airways ones coming into land in Pittsburgh. Where my dad used to work was smack dab under the final approach to runway 27L and the planes would be so low you could see cars in the parking lot reflecting off the bottom of American and USAir planes!) and I can't imagine how huge a 777 is. I've always found aircraft to be really interesting. I think it has to do with having lived a quarter of a mile from an airport most of my life. It's neat to be driving down the road that leads to my road in the summer on a sunny day and have the shadow of a Cessna or a Lear overtake you and then the plane come over a few seconds later. If I look out my bedroom window on a clear day, I can see the tiny shapes of airliners in the pattern for Pittsburgh. <i>Those</i> are the planes I like. I hope eventually the new security stuff at airports can be lifted so that I can go back down to Pittsburgh and spend a day watching the planes taking off and landing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR2000Z Posted February 23, 2002 Share Posted February 23, 2002 Yeah, I don't think you ever seen it happen before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNNER Posted February 23, 2002 Author Share Posted February 23, 2002 When they had the roll out for the 777 about 6 or so years back they had a day when all the employees could go to everett and walk up to it to check it out. We walk right under neath it It's enormous. The engine circumfrence is the same size as the fusalage of a 737. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted February 23, 2002 Share Posted February 23, 2002 I remembered them mentioning that on the Discovery Channel (i think) mini-series about the 777. Those engines have to be the size of a house, considering how many people they can cram into a 737 widthwise You've got one of those jobs that lets you see awesome stuff. You're on my "People I Envy" list now It's not a very long list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Kinnison Posted February 25, 2002 Share Posted February 25, 2002 My cousin in seattle took a cue, and decided to spend more time with her son, while her husband works in the factory. Gunner, his name is Jim Johnson, his wife is Nicole kabat, He used to be a US Army Ranger. if you know him, tell him to pass the message to his wife that Russ Kludy said Hi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNNER Posted February 26, 2002 Author Share Posted February 26, 2002 K_K, you know anything more about him? I looked up Jim johnson on our email list and there was only 2 Jims but about 20 James's.. Do you know his middle name? And no, I don't know him personally but I can get you him email from here if you like, Nute, there is some awesome stuff here to see. The Everett plant where the 747,767 and 777 are built is the largest free standing building in the world. The roof covers more then 100 acres. They added on for the 777 so it might even be bigger now. My mother in laws boy friend is a gig time plane fanatic so I took him up there on a tour. It is amazing what you can see. Even my building is huge. Ours is 25 acres big. It is almost 500 feet wide but close to 1500 feet long. A quater mile is 1320. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Sceltor Posted February 26, 2002 Share Posted February 26, 2002 I, uh, get to cook 16oz steaks at my job, um, how bout that? Nah, it doesn't compare.... :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted February 26, 2002 Share Posted February 26, 2002 I used to haul crap around the London Fog warehouse. It was...not really that big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted February 26, 2002 Share Posted February 26, 2002 I wash mugs. Doesn't compare to ANYTHING. There used to be some truly monstrous buildings around here (old blast furnaces and other steel related things) but there's not many left anymore. I'd like to see the Everett plant and the Vehicle Assembly Building down at Cape Canaveral (my dad said that when he was in Navy, on their frequent trips to Cuba that they used the VAB as a navpoint because you could see it almost 150 miles offshore). I've seen the Pentagon, but I'd also like to see the other two obscenely huge buildings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylilin Posted February 26, 2002 Share Posted February 26, 2002 what do you think they will build over ground zero once the rubble is cleared? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted February 26, 2002 Share Posted February 26, 2002 most likely a memorial........or new large office buildings, with AA guns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted February 26, 2002 Share Posted February 26, 2002 Automated chemical lasers that barely miss the inbound the first five times for the "drama" effect, then sheer off a wing, then hit the fuselage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted February 28, 2002 Share Posted February 28, 2002 neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted February 28, 2002 Share Posted February 28, 2002 First, my job entails serving popcorn and soda's, then getting into movies for free, so I WIN, and you all LOSE. Second, we should all raise money and converge on seattle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR2000Z Posted February 28, 2002 Share Posted February 28, 2002 YOUR job consists of picking up our trash that we alway leave in the theaters and complaining about it when you get home. Me? I don't have a job. I get paid just by living and watch as my life goes by. You know, getting payed by holidays and that sort of thing. I also get payed $20 for cutting the grass in my back yard. You may not know this (who does?) but I got an extremely big yard. So big, my neighbors kids got lost for hours back there and the police had to get back there and get them. I also thought about being a fireman (I like to watch things on fire) and working in a computer store. (For a job, not a career thing.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted March 1, 2002 Share Posted March 1, 2002 No, JR, I WATCH people pick up the garbage you people leave behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNNER Posted March 23, 2002 Author Share Posted March 23, 2002 Well, it's that time again. But as the months go on the list is shorter as there are fewer people here that I know... Randy Collins Grant Borchers Randy Bailey and a lady I just met when I came back to swing shift names Gladis. More 60 day notices were givin out in my job number so the Gundog is going to be tying a knot in the rope any month now. Now the number of people on my side of the building is down to 9 on swing shift when just a few months ago it was more like 45. We even had at least 15 of us on 3rd. Damn.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted March 23, 2002 Share Posted March 23, 2002 I feel for you buddy. Keep the faith, brother. Things are bound to turn around eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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