Many of you have seen the tornado damage from Saturday nights storm here in Wichita. This tornado was a supercell that formed near Waynoka, OK on the BNSF Panhandle Sub nearly 120 miles from Wichita. West of Wellington, it was reported two large wedge tornadoes side by side crossed the Panhandle main. Sirens sounded in Wichita at 9:15 as the storm was moving in from sw and a tornado emergency was issued for the metro area. The tornado crossed the BNSF Ark City Sub on the far south side of Wichita. At this location the huge Boeing and Aero Spirit System plants both took a direct hit from the storm with severe damage.When sirens went off, the NEWARK train was at the yard on the north side of town where the rain and wind was not as severe. Main thing was a safety first approach by the general public. Warnings were taken seriously and no deaths or serious injuries from the storms across KS.
Did Boeing’s 737 manufacturing facility come out of the tornado OK? (TRAINS, March 2012, pp 40-41)
A neighbor here along with others, and the News media have stated that the Boeing Plant is down until Tuesday,17,2012. At least they were told not to report til then, but seeing the pictures on the News this evening, most of the damage appeared to be somewhat more than superficial to some the buildings (none of the Major Structures were blown down, but some ends were opened up by the tornado.)
Link to article in Wichita Eagle:
http://www.kansas.com/2012/04/15/2298117/spirit-aerosystems-boeing-close.html
here’s a link to the Seattle P-I Newspaper web site)with a picture) :
Friday morning there were a couple of empty fusilage cars down at the gate to go in get loaded, but no loads were visible out on their cars. They seem to keep most of the empty card down in the Wellington Yard, usually they come up to the plant on a local run.(Plant does its own switching with a big Trackmobile)
Note to Quentin: Spirit AeroSystems makes the body shells for the 737s, some others, and they are shipped to the Northwest to be finished. Boeing employees makes the nose module for the 747s and they get shipped in closed railcars. They seem to fly the 787 parts out in a big ‘guppy’ styled aircraft called the"Dreamlifter" .
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A neighbor here along with others, and the News media have stated that the Boeing Plant is down until Tuesday,17,2012. At least they were told not to report til then, but seeing the pictures on the News this evening, most of the damage appeared to be somewhat more than superficial to some the buildings (none of the Major Structures were blown down, but some ends were opened up by the tornado.)
Link to article in Wichita Eagle:
http://www.kansas.com/2012/04/15/2298117/spirit-aerosystems-boeing-close.html
here’s a link to the Seattle P-I Newspaper web site)with a picture) :
Friday morning there were a couple of empty fusilage cars down at the gate to go in get loaded, but no loads were visible out on their cars. They seem to keep most of the empty card down in the Wellington Yard, usually they come up to the plant on a local run.(Plant does its own switching with a big Trackmobile)
Note to Quentin: Spirit AeroSystems makes the body shells for the 737s, some others, and they are shipped to the Northwest to be finished. Boeing employees makes the nose module for the 747s and they get shipped in closed railcars. They seem to fly the 787 parts out in a big ‘guppy’ styled aircraft called the"Dreamlifter" .
The main production areas seemed to be not damaged as first reported and by end of wk load shipments should resume. The lineup is not showing the next Spirit train to lv Wichita until atlea