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Stephanie Pope Focuses

on Culture and Training at Boeing

“And as a result of that, I’ve created three elevating our safety and quality culture, as
priorities that I’ve been focused on, and that well as deploying SMS throughout the entire
is developing and executing our Safety and company.”
Quality Plan, that is stabilizing our factories
so we can deliver safe and quality airplanes Pope said that the “second priority I talked
predictably, on schedule, and that is culture, about was predictable deliveries…Most of
said Pope. our customers have walked through our
Safety and Quality Plan in detail. They’re
While the Safety and Quality Plan draws very, very supportive… you all know we have
from input from Boeing customers, the inde- slowed down our factories pretty significant-
pendent assessment team, as well as regu- ly to execute that change. And we’re doing
lators, Poe said the majority of the feedback that so we can get back to being predictable
“came from employees, and that is why I’m at our deliveries. Predictable at scale.”
so confident in this plan…And you can think
of the summary and the plan as increasing “Lastly, it’s all about culture…Our employees
our investment in training and employee are the people that will execute this plan.
New Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO proficiency, and skill enhancement. You can They are so committed and ingrained in our
Stephanie Pope has spent her first four think about it as simplifying our business mission and passionate about the products
months in the role doing a lot of listening processes and procedures, our build plans, that we deliver. This is about creating a
to employees, regulators and customers, reducing the defects across our supply culture. I call it, “Just culture,” it’s part of
to set a new course for the commercial chain and across our factories, as well as our safety management system. This is
aircraft division. increasing our production compliance and making sure that we’re very clear.”

Fresh From 523-mile Hydrogen-electric Flight, Joby at Show

Just weeks after successfully flying a firstof-
its-kind hydrogen-electric air taxi demonstra-
tor 523 miles, Joby Aviation is at the year’s
biggest airshow, showcasing the progress
of its battery-electric air taxi development
program.

According to company officials, the hy-
drogen-electric test flight demonstrates
the potential for hydrogen to unlock emis-
sions-free, regional journeys that don’t re-
quire a runway. “Traveling by air is central to
human progress, but we need to find ways
to make it cleaner. With our battery-electric
air taxi set to fundamentally change the
way we move around cities, we’re excited Joby’s hydrogen-electric demonstrator is aircraft, the demonstrator features a liquid
to now be building a technology stack that
could redefine regional travel using hydro- part of the Company’s future technology hydrogen fuel tank, designed and built by
program and is the result of several years of Joby, which stores up to 40 kilograms of
gen-electric aircraft,” says JoeBen Bevirt,
Founder and CEO, Joby. collaboration between a small team at Joby liquid hydrogen, alongside a reduced mass
and H2FLY, Joby’s wholly-owned subsidiary of batteries. Hydrogen is fed into a fuel
based in Stuttgart, Germany. The converted cell system, designed and built by H2FLY,
The test flight was completed in June using aircraft previously completed more than to produce electricity, water, and heat. The
a converted Joby pre-production prototype 25,000 miles of testing as a battery-electric electricity produced by the hydrogen fuel
battery-electric aircraft fitted with a liquid aircraft at Joby’s base in Marina, CA. cell powers the six electric motors on the
hydrogen fuel tank and fuel cell system. It Joby aircraft, with the batteries providing
landed with 10% of its hydrogen fuel load Using the same airframe and overall ar- additional power primarily during take-off
remaining. chitecture as Joby’s core, battery-electric and landing.

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