Smutny wrote:
The bottom line is that Boeing as we've known it for 88 years is no
more. As a Seattle resident, it pains me to see the plants being torn
down, to see engineering and sales buildings turned into parking lots
where the circus sets up a couple times a year.
BAe has done this to Hatfield ( formerly owned by Hawker Siddeley and de
Havilland ) , the home of the jet airliner, just to name one significant
product made there.
Oh, sure, the management said they would *never* close Hatfield.
The real estate was worth too much as a business park and BAe wanted to
concentrate on defence contracts instead of commercial.
Sounds kinds similar.
Graham
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