3/7/2012----Everett, WA, USA..A Boeing employee, upper left, works on a Boeing 767 Cargo's engine...The Boeing 767 is a mid-size, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner built by Boeing Commercial Airplanesnwas first flown in 1982. The aircraft features two turbofan engines, a conventional tail, and for reduced aerodynamic drag, a supercritical wing design. Designed as a smaller wide-body airliner than preceding aircraft such as the 747, the 767 has a capacity of 181 to 375 persons and a range of 3,850 to 6,385 nautical miles (7,130 to 11,825 km), depending on variant. Development of the 767 occurred in tandem with a narrow-body twinjet, the 757, resulting in shared design features which allow pilots to obtain a common type rating to operate both aircraft. (SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA)..Boeing recently won a large airforce tanker order of the 767 which will keep production of the aircraft join for the foreseeable future...©2012 Stuart Isett. All rights reserved
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