You can always count on earnings reports to reveal information that doesn’t always make it into a press release. Spirit Aerosystems released its 3Q earnings report today and they announced the company has completed the upper lobe of Section 41 for the first 747-8F.
Spirit even threw a small picture right in the presentation. It doesn’t look a heck of a lot different from any other 747-400, but this airplane is quickly becoming a reality.
UPDATE: I have a question that needs an answer – Does the General Electric GEnx-1B engine have to fly on 787 before the GEnx-2B engine can fly on the 747-8F?
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