Marking a milestone at its Renton factory, Boeing on Friday began assembling the wings of its first 737 MAX.
On a media tour Tuesday morning, Boeing executives showed off parts of the first MAX wings beginning their journey through a new, highly automated manufacturing process.
The MAX upper and lower wing skin panels hung in four massive automated fastening machines supplied by Mukilteo engineering firm Electroimpact. The first front and rear wing spars were loaded on a separate, older fastening machine.(…)
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