For those of you who have paid a visit to the Future of Flight museum at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, this large monolithic composite barrel will be quite familiar to you. A few weeks ago, Boeing removed three barrel – a demonstrator of 787 section 47 – from its exhibit in at the museum and relocated back to the factory grounds. It’s been rigged up near the 40-41 building and appears to have a vertical stabilizer leading edge now attached to the top of it. I confess to having absolutely no earthly clue as to the purpose of this barrel’s reclamation, but it does inspire many many questions? Can anyone shed some light?
Photo Credit Mark Palmer
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