Boeing Plant 2 Roof

Boeing is set to demolish its historic plant 2 facility near boeing field famous for being so vital to the world war ii manufacturing effort that to foil possible enemy bombing raids the roof was.

Boeing plant 2 roof.

Under this detailed walkable camouflage roof of fake housing boeing b 17 flying fortresses were being produced in 1942 1945. The everett wash facility is home to the 747 767 777 and 787 dreamliner production lines and is the world s largest building by volume. In a bid to provide camouflage for boeing s plant 2 a 26 acre make believe small town was constructed. Houses streets and plants were assembled like stage props out of plywood clapboard chicken wire and burlap covering the plant s roof during world war ii.

Plant 2 was built in 1936 and went on to host the production of some of boeing s key aircraft in the decades to follow. A close up look would reveal that it was camouflage for boeing s plant no. By the time production ceased in the building the plant had built half of the boeing b 17 flying fortresses the boeing 307s the boeing 377s some of the boeing b 29 superfortresses boeing b 50 superfortresses b 47. Built during world war ii boeing s fake town hides the aircraft manufacturer s production facility below which is the cumulative size of eight football fields.

In the 1960s the first boeing 737s were assembled in plant 2 but finished in the neighboring thompson site where the production of the 737 was eventually moved to. In order to produce the twin engined boeing 737 a new assembly line was built in 1966 at renton and the plant is still building the boeing 737 family. The solar panels generate up to 2 6 megawatts of energy to power the entire plant as well as the giant autoclaves used to produce the 787 fuselage. 2 where thousands of b 17 bombers were produced.

Visitors will see airplanes being built for our worldwide base of airline customers. Public tours of boeing s everett factory are available seven days a week. Boeing plant 2 also known as air force plant 17 was a factory building which was built in 1936 by the boeing company in king county washington in the united states. The 737 final assembly building when built was at the time the largest building in the world by volume.

New aircraft perform their first flight from the adjacent renton municipal airport and are then flown to boeing field for customer preparation. The neighborhood was completed in 1944 and removed a year after. Boeing top priority. Over the camouflaged boeing plant number 2.

The two women show the. Boeing b 17 flying fortresses dropped over 640 000 tons of bombs over germany alone during the conflict and of the 12 731 boeing planes built about fifty remain in complete form.