Boeing Plant 2
Boeing Plant 2 ( English Boeing Plant 2 ) was a factory in the US King County in the south of Seattle , State of Washington , in which numerous military aircraft such as the "Flying Fortress" B-17 were manufactured. The vacant and collapsing plant was demolished in autumn 2010.
history
Plant 2 was built in 1936 as part of the New Deal on an area initially 300 × 300 meters between the city's airport and the Duwamish River . It brought industrial jobs to the forestry and fishing area on the Pacific coast. Double-deckers had already been manufactured in Plant 1 next door . With the beginning of the Second World War , the construction of bombers began . Over half of all 12,731 B-17s were built there as well as the first three prototypes of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress . Later there came the Stratojet Boeing B-47 and the Stratofortress Boeing B-52 , but because of the height of the vertical tail was to realize little more in this work. As a result, Boeing built the large Everett plant , which is located about 60 kilometers north and is still producing today , which is also large enough for the Boeing 747 . In the 1960s, Plant 2 built the first Boeing 737s .
During World War II, as in the other warring states, the female employment rate rose in the United States and there were not enough men available to do heavy physical labor; Up to 50 percent women worked in the plant, which was caricatured by the catchphrase Rosie the Riveter ( German: Rosie the Riveter ).
To protect against Japanese air raids, the plant was camouflaged as a residential area during World War II: houses made of plywood were built on the factory roof and streets and front gardens were painted on with paint.
The Boeing complex today
Today there is Boeing Field Airport (the older, smaller and closer to the city's airports) and a large apron on its southwest side where the Boeing 737 model is made available to buyers. There is also the private Museum of Flight .
Web links
- Boeing's legendary bomber factory sinks into the ground; in Handelsblatt online from September 21, 2010, with many photos , requested on September 21, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ In US, Boeing tearing down plant 2, factory where Seattle became a high tech town , Associated Press , accessed April 12, 2016
- ↑ http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/2010/12/02/boeing-video-demolition-of-plant-2/
Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '49 " N , 122 ° 18' 39" W.