[slammin]

I'm a Design Engineer on the 787.

[FormerViperDriver]

Retired Air Force F-111 and F-16 pilot/instructor pilot. Also served as an Air Liaison Officer (ALO) and Forward Air Controller (FAC) with Army units in Desert Storm.

Currently under contract (with L-3 Communications) to the US Air Forces Europe Air and Space Operations Center (603rd AOC), Ramstein, Germany, as an exercise planner and airpower command and control subject matter expert.

FVD

[Captain Eddie]

I work for a health insurance company, and we insure a company that has and flys jets! (does that count?)

[Phantom Phan1200]

Originally Posted by slammin

I'm a Design Engineer on the 787.

787 is a really neat aircraft, when will they go into service & what airline will be the first to fly them?

[Raven]

I used to work for Pratt & Whitney in CT, then Williams International in MI (cruise missile engines, small business jet engines, various gas turbine programs). Got to work on the start up of Eclipse Aviation and met Burt Rutan and a few other notables.

Went to work for Ford Motor Company (back when they made money) and now work for Land Rover in the US.

Sometimes, I really miss the aerospace business...

[bsmith13]

ABM, GCI or WD. Take your pick.

[planenutsfrog]

I have been in French Civil Aviation Administration since 1992.
My first assignment was at the AIS (Intl. Notam Office), then from 1996 I worked at the Air Navigation Directorate, in the department in charge of ICAO affairs.
Since 2000 finally, I have been working at Brest ATCC at the Quality of Service and Safety dept. (The study of ATC incidents : AIRPROX, TCAS, etc...)

I also used to be a keen private pilot (about 200 hrs logged), but I have had to suspend flying in 2001, and still don't know when I will be able to take to the air again...

[slammin]

Originally Posted by Phantom Phan1200

787 is a really neat aircraft, when will they go into service & what airline will be the first to fly them?

It should go into service next year. ANA will be the first operator.

Every now and then I look up from my computer in awe at the size of these airplanes and the facility that houses them.

[FormerViperDriver]

Originally Posted by bsmith13

ABM, GCI or WD. Take your pick.

It's all 13B, right?

FVD

[bsmith13]

Originally Posted by FormerViperDriver

It's all 13B, right?

FVD

Yep. Most people don't know a 13B from a hole in the wall, though. And I'm pretty sure it would mean something completely different to Army-types like Shawn.