On 21 Dec 2004 19:52:16 -0800, "Ed Kyle" wrote:

They still assemble a few airplanes, I hear, in the
Seattle area, but fewer every year.

Sorry about the second response, but this kinda bugged me.
If you fly in a Boeing commercial airliner (not including the 717-
a renamed McDonnell-Douglas plane), it was assembled in the
Seattle area. This is true now, and for the forseeable future- with
the 7E7/787 coming online.

Boeing's relocation of its corporate headquarters to Chicago
was a stab in the back to the city/region it owed so much to. And to
add injury to insult, our state had to give Boeing major tax concessions
just to keep the production lines here. Oh well, that's business, I suppose...

Sorry, Ed, but I guess you touched a raw nerve in me

Dale