“Boeing” on The Daily Caller

The longest airplane flight with a coach cabin is 15 hours, on Qantas Airways, from Sydney to Dallas, Scott McCartney of The Wall Street Journal reports. (more)

Boeing Co. (BA) plans to shutter defense operations in Wichita, Kansas, where it has built airplanes since 1929, as military projects dry up amid U.S. spending constraints, said a person familiar with the plan. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — A bankruptcy judge said Thursday that the parent of American Airlines can go ahead with its previously scheduled deliveries of Boeing aircraft next year. (more)

American CEOs’ projections for the next six months of economic growth have been largely consistent since last quarter, tempered by concerns over the European debt crisis and uncertain economic policies in the States, according to Business Roundtable’s Q4 Economic Outlook survey, even as Congress has failed to trim the federal budget deficit. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Southwest Airlines Co. said Tuesday that it ordered 208 new Boeing 737 aircraft with a value of nearly $19 billion. (more)

Republican presidential candidates and members of Congress applauded the National Labor Relation Board‘s decision to drop its complaint against aircraft manufacturer Boeing on Friday. And South Carolina GOP Senator Lindsey Graham is calling for a congressional investigation into the matter, said he would block Obama administration nominees to the NLRB until his questions are answered. (more)

President Obama offered a positive, if muted, statement about the National Labor Relations Board’s decision to drop its complaint against aircraft manufacturer Boeing on Friday. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board dropped its high-profile lawsuit against Boeing on Friday, but the political fallout continued as Republicans said the case was a mistake to begin with and a top agency official defended his conduct. (more)

SEATTLE (AP) — As Boeing executive Jim Albaugh spoke to an aerospace conference in New York, recent strikes by the company’s workers in Washington state weren’t far from his mind. (more)

Boeing Co.’s (BA) commercial jet chief expects both planemakers and American Airlines to benefit from parent AMR Corp. (AMR)’s bankruptcy reorganization, which may hone the carrier’s competitive edge. (more)

One way or the other, Wednesday will be a big day for organized labor in the United States. (more)

President Barack Obama displayed his focus on government Friday by thanking his own administration for Boeing’s new $21.7 billion sales deal with Lion Air, a fast-growing Asian airline company. (more)

President Barack Obama’s campaign heads to the Pacific and Asian corners of the world this week where his public relations crew will produce a symphony of visuals for American voters. The nine day trip will include visits to San Diego, Hawaii, Australia, Bali and Indonesia. (more)

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is calling for the firing of the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board after emails show him joking to colleagues about how they “screwed up” the U.S. economy. (more)

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish commentators on Wednesday hailed the successful emergency landing of a Boeing airliner at Warsaw airport as a miracle and emotional catharsis for a nation that lost its president and dozens of other state officials in an aviation disaster last year. (more)

In the wake of a Senate failure for the president’s jobs bill, Republicans are advancing their own plans in the House of Representatives.  (more)

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa snapped at National Labor Relations Board general counsel Lafe Solomon for openly defying his congressional subpoena. (more)

In a chilling reminder of how a simple human error can override the highest of high technology, an investigation has shown that All Nippon Airways Co. narrowly escaped a catastrophe earlier this month when its plane almost flipped over after a co-pilot hit the wrong button while trying to open the cockpit door for the plane’s captain, returning from the restroom. (more)

My father has always been my hero. His story is the classic American story of pulling oneself up by the bootstraps, working hard and enjoying the fruits of America’s free market system. (more)

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is “mad as hell” over the National Labor Relations Board’s complaint against The Boeing Company and has rallied a group of GOP senators to demand that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama support legislation that would prevent a similar situation from occurring in the future. (more)