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Boeing executive in charge of 787 retiring; Mark Jenks moves up
Boeing has named Mark Jenks as the new head of its 787 Dreamliner program, replacing Larry Loftis who will retire at month’s end.
Jenks is currently Loftis’ deputy and has worked on the 787 since the program began.
He led the smooth development of the second model in the Dreamliner family, the 787-9.
That larger model, in contrast to the original 787-8, was on schedule and relatively free of development problems.
His key task now will be to bring down the cost of manufacturing the jet, which still costs on average about $26 million more to build than the sale price.
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He’ll have to do this as Boeing prepares to close down a temporary assembly line in Everett, correspondingly raising production on the other two assembly lines, one in Everett and one in North Charleston, S.C.
At the same time, manufacturing must gear up for a rate increase next year from 10 jets per month to 12.
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