Photos: (Far left) Automated fiber-placement machines apply layers of carbon-fiber tape to form the 787 aft-body composite sections. The carbon fiber is placed using a precise pattern and layered to provide maximum strength. (Below) Final Assembly teammate Noli Sanchez prepares the leading edge strat on a wing before the wing-to-body join. Bob ferguson | Boeing Macr h 2015 23 Assembly, and along with jobs behind schedule is a way of measuring how well Boeing South Carolina is performing in sending aft- and midbody fuselage sections to final assembly in North Charleston and Everett. Bryan Howell also works in Aftbody Operations, on Section 48. Like Painter, he, too, is a veteran, of the U.S. Air Force. Howell went to work at the North Charleston site about the same time as Painter, only for Global Aeronautica. Unlike Vought, which fabricated and assembled the two aft-fuselage sections of the 787, Global Aeronautica received the two midbody fuselage sections from Alenia in Italy and Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Japan. Employees joined the two barrels and installed systems and electrical wiring. That’s still what happens in Midbody Operations. “I was excited when I came here in 2007 and I’m even more excited now, to see our Dreamliners taking off from
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