The Boeing Everett Factory: The Biggest Building in the World (By Far)

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@megaprojects9649
@megaprojects9649 3 жыл бұрын
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@mrh1663
@mrh1663 3 жыл бұрын
2days ago ?
@edwardandrade4390
@edwardandrade4390 3 жыл бұрын
Wondering how many people are working in this giant building at this time. I know that some of there contracts have been put on hold. I know we do parts for them.
@mustafaemad3614
@mustafaemad3614 3 жыл бұрын
Please make a video about Bar Lev Line, costing around $300 million in 1973.
@tray3120
@tray3120 3 жыл бұрын
Check out the mckinley climate laboratory they can simulate almost any weather for testing aircraft and anything else
@specter86fl
@specter86fl 3 жыл бұрын
Its horrible to see our governments allow such devestation to so many peoples jobs at companies like boeing for a disease that has killed only half the amount of people in america last year that cigarette related heart disease killed in the same period of time.
@shrekvt
@shrekvt 3 жыл бұрын
I worked there for over 10 years. It's hard to comprehend how big the building is even after working there for so many years. It basically feels like a city within a building. The worst is if you work on the 767 line and get to work late. Nothing like walking to the middle of the building from the farthest reaches of the parking lot. It was easily a 20+ minute walk.
@Blindashitmetalasfuck
@Blindashitmetalasfuck 3 жыл бұрын
Then you also know how much of a fucking hell hole Everett is...
@ganjatheninja
@ganjatheninja 3 жыл бұрын
@@Blindashitmetalasfuck born and raised in washington state 31 years of this utterly cancerous state it is trash.
@jimklein5491
@jimklein5491 3 жыл бұрын
@@Blindashitmetalasfuck have you been to Tacoma? Everett is friggen Medina by compareison. 😄
@patrickmcglonejr8163
@patrickmcglonejr8163 3 жыл бұрын
@@Blindashitmetalasfuck ah! Good to see other Everottites on this channel! And yes this city is a sh*t hole! Lol
@patrickmcglonejr8163
@patrickmcglonejr8163 3 жыл бұрын
@@ganjatheninja this state is great, what are you talking about? Go live in Oklahoma, Arkansas or Missouri and try to say this state is trash lol
@dksdg
@dksdg 3 жыл бұрын
The building is massively impressive inside and out. As someone in Aerospace manufacturing and driving by the plant almost daily this story is close to home, thanks Simon.
@CaptainHightop
@CaptainHightop 3 жыл бұрын
When you drive past the 747 assembly plant it doesn't really seem that big, until you go past on one of those hot summer days when the bay doors are opened and you see rows of entire 747s parked inside, then your brain actually starts to understand the scale.
@wizzarin424
@wizzarin424 3 жыл бұрын
you can set 5 empire state building on it side in there, or the complete Disneyland including parking lot Inside the Building for just two examples.
@SeanVedell
@SeanVedell 3 жыл бұрын
Couldn’t agree more. That was my experience too and it took a while to process what I was seeing. Luckily it’s so big you see that sight a few more times before you’re past the place and that repetition only magnifies how insanely huge the place is.
@Carewolf
@Carewolf 3 жыл бұрын
It is hard to appreciate truly massive buildings on anything but foot. I underestimated the closed down Tempelhof airport for a long time, until I tried taking a short-cut through the "park" (the old landing fields) to the BBQ area. It took half an hour walking briskly. Still faster than walking around the terminal building which would be even longer yet. Tip of advice, if a building has 3 separate subway stations in a row, it is pretty big.
@davidcarter7645
@davidcarter7645 3 жыл бұрын
I can't count how many times I've driven past the Boeing plant.
@rlikemoney
@rlikemoney 3 жыл бұрын
Even just driving around boeing perimeter road. I used to buy brn from my friend that worked there. It always made me less confident in flying since he was using the entire time hes worked there. Ive gotten clean and stopped talking to him, but he was close to maxing out and he never got drug tested, which is crazy. This was over 3 years ago
@andrewanderson9896
@andrewanderson9896 3 жыл бұрын
My grandfather worked in that building for 24 years on the 747, he just recently passed away. The 6th was the year anniversary of passing, he loved that company. Thank you for doing this video Simon.
@RobertBrown-jz4qj
@RobertBrown-jz4qj 3 жыл бұрын
I am sure he had some stories to tell.
@sam_s_
@sam_s_ 3 жыл бұрын
It is a great thing when a man can work for a company that long and still love the company. It shows that the company is good but also that your grandfather was a good employee and a hard worker.
@andrewanderson9896
@andrewanderson9896 3 жыл бұрын
@@sam_s_ he would have worked there longer but had to involuntarily retire do to his eyesight getting really bad.
@sam_s_
@sam_s_ 3 жыл бұрын
@@andrewanderson9896 That had to have been frustrating for him. Sounds like a hell of a guy.
@th3epcplayer958
@th3epcplayer958 3 жыл бұрын
The Houston Aerodrome? That’s an ice skating building in Northern Houston. I believe you meant Houston Astrodome.
@jeremyfranks7608
@jeremyfranks7608 3 жыл бұрын
The picture he used is the astrodome and it's from quite a few years ago. Those rounds towers on it have been demolished for some time
@OgreKev
@OgreKev 3 жыл бұрын
@@jeremyfranks7608 Even without the towers, still seems a tad bit bigger (and better known) than the Aerodrome. 😆😄😂😲
@matthewrobinett1012
@matthewrobinett1012 3 жыл бұрын
He’s British I can forgive him
@lovelessissimo
@lovelessissimo 3 жыл бұрын
That's a terrible name for an ice rink.
@victoriaeads6126
@victoriaeads6126 3 жыл бұрын
🙄 Dude.
@paulbarnett227
@paulbarnett227 3 жыл бұрын
Been there. Boeing Factory Tour. Highly recommeded.
@LCTeam2011
@LCTeam2011 3 жыл бұрын
Me too! It was awesome!
@paulbradford6475
@paulbradford6475 3 жыл бұрын
@@LCTeam2011 Me three! Went there three years ago. Impressive. Boeing will come back for sure.
@777FreakyD
@777FreakyD 3 жыл бұрын
Well done... I'm a 20 year Boeing veteran, with all that time in Everett. All good stuff you presented.
@Alex632
@Alex632 3 жыл бұрын
Is there really shops and stuff inside?
@777FreakyD
@777FreakyD 3 жыл бұрын
@@Alex632 Yep... coffee stands, dry cleaners, about 10 different cafeterias. It's huge. Also true that alot of folks exercise in the tunnels at lunch.
@Ampersandrascott
@Ampersandrascott Жыл бұрын
@@777FreakyDThere’s also a theater under the 777 line.
@MrEd-qg8td
@MrEd-qg8td 3 жыл бұрын
The Vehicle Assembly Building at Cape Canveral Fla is a masive building as well. where they built the Saturn V and the space shuttle.
@N0616JCProductions
@N0616JCProductions 3 жыл бұрын
Not to mention that these two buildings has their own weather!
@Badomen_5150
@Badomen_5150 3 жыл бұрын
It’s the tallest single story building in the world.
@matsv201
@matsv201 3 жыл бұрын
The assebly bulding is the third largest singel span bulding wirh both of the two larger one being in germnay
@deathbysloth3180
@deathbysloth3180 3 жыл бұрын
Just for some scale the nasa building is 348,000 square ft and the Boeing factory is 4.2 million square ft... I had to look it up since I my self have been to the nasa vehicle assembly building that’s just mind blowing
@Genjo_N_Mojave
@Genjo_N_Mojave 3 жыл бұрын
@Mr Ed Actually the Space Shuttle's were built in Palmdale, CA., at USAF Plant 42 Site 1 with a Ferry Flight to KSC. One of the smallest Aerospace Hangars I've ever worked in i.e. Site 1.
@Viccaro7
@Viccaro7 3 жыл бұрын
As a Washington native, I always love it when you cover something from our state. After you already covered the Hanford Project, now I'm just waiting for the Columbia Basin Project, the largest water reclamation project in the country, with the largest Hydroelectric dam in North America at its center, The Grand Coulee Dam, which is about 3x the volume of the Hoover Dam.
@josephbrenz5394
@josephbrenz5394 3 жыл бұрын
Now this is a mega project (maybe giga in some parts)
@atomic_wait
@atomic_wait 3 жыл бұрын
CyberWhistler in 2531 AD presenting Gigaprojects, building a Dyson Sphere around Proxima Centauri.
@Justanotherconsumer
@Justanotherconsumer 3 жыл бұрын
@@atomic_wait that’s exaprojects. Maybe exoprojects?
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@andrewdacosta6440 3 жыл бұрын
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@atomic_wait 3 жыл бұрын
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@SAMnELLA-1
@SAMnELLA-1 3 жыл бұрын
Excellent comments. It'll probably be true!🤣❤🇨🇦.
@colenelson6721
@colenelson6721 3 жыл бұрын
I grew up a few dozen miles away from that factory, it single handed lay employed half of my school friends parents, it employs so many people that when they get off work it clogs the freeways for hours and they have to offset their shifts from normal work hours to avoid causing gridlock three cities long
@ryanhamstra49
@ryanhamstra49 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Everett traffic is as bad as Seattle....
@focused4841
@focused4841 2 жыл бұрын
Thats such a cool fact. Shoulda been in the video lol
@tequilastraightup595
@tequilastraightup595 3 жыл бұрын
When I was in the Navy stationed in Whidbey Island Wa. we had a aircraft make a emergency landing there. When we got there to fix the plain they had moved it into a manufacturing hanger because it was snowing. Our plain, an A-6, looked like a ear bud in the back of a 18 wheeler. That was one of the smaller hangers, the main manufacturing area could hold a couple of those smaller hangers with room to spare.
@etonbachs4226
@etonbachs4226 3 жыл бұрын
*plane twice. At least you weren't in the Air Force and don't know how to spell plane.
@chiefslinginbeef3641
@chiefslinginbeef3641 3 жыл бұрын
@@etonbachs4226 heard of voice to text?
@tequilastraightup595
@tequilastraightup595 3 жыл бұрын
@@alesspot3816 The aircraft was one of our squadrons, we just went down to Boeing to fix a hydraulic issue. We didn't work with any Grumman techs that time. I was there because the set pan got hydraulic fluid on it, and I changed it.
@fredlougee2807
@fredlougee2807 3 жыл бұрын
@@tequilastraightup595 Which squadron? I was in VA-145.
@SAMnELLA-1
@SAMnELLA-1 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheFalseShepphard 🚔 yeah the spelling police always need to be in charge 🚔🤣❤🇨🇦.
@noelwade
@noelwade 3 жыл бұрын
Another measure of how big this place is: In the past some of the local car clubs I belonged to would set up race-car courses ("autocross") in the parking lot on weekends! AND we only took up a tiny portion of the parking lot! This place is truly massive, and if its ever possible to take tours again, I highly recommend it.
@Ampersandrascott
@Ampersandrascott Жыл бұрын
The cops also practice in the Parking lots on weekends
@kevadu
@kevadu 3 жыл бұрын
They give tours of this building...well, at least they used to. No idea what it's like post-covid. But I had been before that and it's absolutely worth it. Really neat stuff.
@manohore
@manohore 3 жыл бұрын
I was an IBM employee contracted to Boeing at the Everett plant and I had an apartment directly across the street. This was in 1995,6,7 during 777 development. The plant is massive! I use to take my children to Paine field on the weekends to watch test flights or new builds in their shiny liveries launch to customer destinations. It was quite amazing. Thanks for the video. I'm glad I subscribe.
@wmarkwitherspoon
@wmarkwitherspoon 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Simon for doing my suggestion!!
@fight2flyphoto
@fight2flyphoto 3 жыл бұрын
Hey, my workplace! I love walking the factory. Walked 3 miles one day without ever backtracking. Amazing place with truly amazing people.
@SKIP2NV
@SKIP2NV Жыл бұрын
Would absolutely love to get in there for a tour one day, i work for Boeing Australia even our site is massive in comparison to neighbouring factories and certainly a company to be proud of with the culture and innovation
@swftwlly
@swftwlly 3 жыл бұрын
I got to see lots of neat stuff all over the country as a truck driver for 30 years. One I'll never forget was delivering a trailer load of airplane seats to Boeing from a factory in North Texas. I thought I drove a big truck until I got it inside the factory.
@jamesdreads7828
@jamesdreads7828 3 жыл бұрын
"building something is never easy, building something massive, is, just, also not going to be easy"-Simon Whistler, 2021.
@tysidaho
@tysidaho 3 жыл бұрын
hahaha, I never comment, but when he said that, I thought to myself "This needs to be in the comments." James, thanks for being on top of it. haha
@jamesdreads7828
@jamesdreads7828 3 жыл бұрын
@@tysidaho looool no problem (: glad to be of service
@megaprojects9649
@megaprojects9649 3 жыл бұрын
I am such a big brain with comments like this.
@micahphilson
@micahphilson 3 жыл бұрын
@@megaprojects9649 That's why we love Business Blaze so much!
@Krahazik
@Krahazik 3 жыл бұрын
I have toured the Everett factory. Its impressive, especially the sky crane they have inside.
@orcasea59
@orcasea59 3 жыл бұрын
I worked in the Everett factory for fifteen years - 10 on the '47 and 5 on the '77. Even after fifteen years (most of those hard years, the aircraft industry is known for it's massive overtime, when the 747-400 was released 80-hour weeks were common) I would walk inside to start my shift and would often just stand in amazement at the grand scale, and occasionally the overhead cranes built into the ceiling carrying a completed 747 wing an center box overhead. It's a stunning place, truly a Wonder of the Modern World.
@radudeATL
@radudeATL 3 жыл бұрын
Visiting this place is one of the few bucket list items I've checked off. It did not disappoint.
@michaelathens953
@michaelathens953 3 жыл бұрын
Ok, so when I lived in Everett my apartment was just blocks from this building, and I'd drive by it sometimes when carpooling to work. As good a job as Simon does trying to convey just how truly myriad this building is, words simply cannot do it. It is SO HUGE that looking upon it completely recalibrates your entire sense of what a large building is. Words really are inadequate to explain to someone how big this thing is, it's quite simply on a totally different scale compared to anything else you've ever seen.
@jamesclendon4811
@jamesclendon4811 3 жыл бұрын
Words are inadequate----especially "myriad." (Sorry).
@onemoreguyonline7878
@onemoreguyonline7878 3 жыл бұрын
You got out of Everett? Good job.
@Ampersandrascott
@Ampersandrascott Жыл бұрын
Did you live on Casino Road?
@brycenara1618
@brycenara1618 3 жыл бұрын
I work at the factory in Everett on the 777 plane. This video was a good one to briefly showcase the factory.
@morgananderson9647
@morgananderson9647 3 жыл бұрын
I am former Everett worker, in the design and administration buildings surrounding the factory. I used to run in the tunnels for exercise. They would also store the massive LONG wiring harnesses for the planes in the tunnels awaiting being installed into the aircraft... They did not have the coffee shops when I worked there...
@TheMassEffect
@TheMassEffect 3 жыл бұрын
I live in Everett.... it's massive! Absolutely colossal
@wabbafet2
@wabbafet2 3 жыл бұрын
Used to go to school down the road from here. Been waiting for this one
@iilikecereal
@iilikecereal 3 жыл бұрын
I live near this building, your brain doesn't even register how huge it is in PERSON until you see someone walking next to it.
@teddysthaiadventure2534
@teddysthaiadventure2534 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, inside is unscalable. You have no reference points from any other building
@annemiller297
@annemiller297 3 жыл бұрын
Me too! It is huge.
@micahphilson
@micahphilson 3 жыл бұрын
I toured it, and still you only see a tiny portion. I love that they have to have bikes and electric carts for employees just to even get from one part of the building to another!
@chrismaggio7879
@chrismaggio7879 3 жыл бұрын
From the pic in the vid it just looks like a large Costco or warehouse, no big deal... then I froze the vid and looked more closely... those are football field sized hangar doors that look like tiny loading dock doors!! Holy cow that is one mega structure! Very deceiving, can only imagine how much rain water they collect off that roof for production and utilities.
@SAMnELLA-1
@SAMnELLA-1 3 жыл бұрын
@@micahphilson Haha yeah, going for a coffee I'll be back in 2 hours 🤣❤🇨🇦.
@flatbill2
@flatbill2 3 жыл бұрын
I worked there for a decade. Amazes me every time I walk in.
@mr.stratholm4999
@mr.stratholm4999 3 жыл бұрын
I live about a 2 minute drive from there. One thing to note is that this building is so large that it has it's own weather system and it still does rain in there. Sometimes it could be sunny outside and raining inside.
@mrz80
@mrz80 11 ай бұрын
Guess they can't quite manage to dehumidify a half billion cubic feet of air all the time :D I don't recall it raining when I toured the plant a few years ago, but it was kind of hazy up in the rafters. :D
@Nothing-zw3yd
@Nothing-zw3yd 3 жыл бұрын
I've seen the Everett factory, but I used to live up on the hill overlooking the Renton factory for a couple years. I could see the runway from my patio. Every once in a while I'd catch a brand new jet taking off, no paint. Pretty spectacular.
@robertdeebach38
@robertdeebach38 3 жыл бұрын
Work on a couple of the hangers as a Ironworker. One building we hung more tons of steel that year then all other building in the USA. One center fill in of a king truss was over 500,000 lbs. We had nuts that weight 50 pounds in more ways then one. Best couple of years of hanging iron , had a top raising gang boss. Ice and wind crazy fun.
@rafaellacuesta9344
@rafaellacuesta9344 3 жыл бұрын
Toured this factory maybe 3 years ago and it was amazing!
@denz4133
@denz4133 3 жыл бұрын
I lived in Everett and have toured the building. It is amazing.
@garry1214
@garry1214 3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video Simon I have always wondered about this building. Thanks for uploading.
@retiredafce3373
@retiredafce3373 3 жыл бұрын
I live near there. My dad helped build that place and installed most of the equipment to build those aircraft you mentioned.
@edwardcarr2725
@edwardcarr2725 3 жыл бұрын
The only thing more regular than my stooling habits are mega progect updates.
@MrNeptunebob
@MrNeptunebob 3 жыл бұрын
Maybe Metamucil could be if not a mega project, a side project.
@kevinfreeman3098
@kevinfreeman3098 3 жыл бұрын
That's not good, if this channel ends up like HH... That's highlight history for you non-legends.
@MrNeptunebob
@MrNeptunebob 3 жыл бұрын
Well, I think a lot of nursing home residents who watch you tube would like to see Metamucil and bowel care as a side project.
@jameskwicinski3317
@jameskwicinski3317 3 жыл бұрын
I Love your accent and mannerisms. I also bet your a Fantastic daddy!!!. You mentioned your little one in a previous show. tamiabe@gmail.com
@jameskwicinski3317
@jameskwicinski3317 3 жыл бұрын
Question: Do you fly to each location for your research on your MANY DIFFERENT DIVERSE subjects .If so that's a great perk with a already cool job ! Tami
@scott2100
@scott2100 3 жыл бұрын
I've toured this factory, it still is difficult to comprehend how giant this plant is, and I've spent time in atomic accelerators
@everettrailfan
@everettrailfan 3 жыл бұрын
I've lived near it for 14 years and still don't understand how big it is lol.
@Rick0430
@Rick0430 3 жыл бұрын
I could listen to Simon talk all day. Wait a minute. I already do.
@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647
@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 3 жыл бұрын
He has a new channel by the way.
@SAMnELLA-1
@SAMnELLA-1 3 жыл бұрын
@@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 When doesn't he have a new channel? I subscribe to everything Simon! I have no idea how this guy has time to do all this & still have some family time. Geesh just listening to all his channels is a full time job. Your fans love you Simon!!❤🇨🇦
@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647
@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 3 жыл бұрын
@@SAMnELLA-1 True and yes we love Simon and his ever-expanding beard
@SAMnELLA-1
@SAMnELLA-1 3 жыл бұрын
@@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 The beard needs it's own channel!!
@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647
@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 3 жыл бұрын
@@SAMnELLA-1 yes it does Woof, that beard has made me change my mind about guys with beards, I'm female by the way
@mattsiede443
@mattsiede443 3 жыл бұрын
Wife and I went there on vacation, it was an INCREDIBLE tour!!!!
@peterkoester7358
@peterkoester7358 3 жыл бұрын
My wife and I made sure to pay a visit to the Boeing Everett facility when in Seattle for our honeymoon in 2007. Our tour group were among the first to see the new and not even tested 787 under construction. While there we also got to see the DreamLifter, the 747 converted to carry assembled parts of the 787 trans-oceanic. HUGE aircraft! Impressive facility and the adjacent Boeing Museum is must-sees if you are in the Pacific Northwest along with the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Seattle itself!
@paulirving2142
@paulirving2142 3 жыл бұрын
I love this channel so much. Keep up the amazing work.
@ecrusch
@ecrusch 3 жыл бұрын
I worked in McCook Illinois which hosts the General Motors Electro-Motive Rail Way Assembly plant. It was so funny driving into the plant with ambulances and police cars to get to the scene of whatever we were called there for. The work-isles were called "bays" and resembled streets. The place was way over a million square feet and was enormous.
@johnstockton2800
@johnstockton2800 3 жыл бұрын
You should do a video on NASA's VAB. I know it was briefly talked about during the Saturn V video but if any building deserves it's own video, it's the VAB
@Mrgunsngear
@Mrgunsngear 3 жыл бұрын
thanks
@misterp9896
@misterp9896 3 жыл бұрын
Mr. GnG 👋 I heard a couple years back the SWAT team was called in because somebody reported an employee bringing in what looked like a rifle. Turns out it was an umbrella.
@xdcam
@xdcam 3 жыл бұрын
I loved this episode. Have you ever considered doing an episode on Apple’s new mothership campus? I think it would be cool to see some of the cool details.
@rashidzaidi5211
@rashidzaidi5211 3 жыл бұрын
You do a great job great voice too. Nobody do commentary better than you and at such speed! Truly enjoy all your work
@rocketsurgeon11
@rocketsurgeon11 3 жыл бұрын
Worked there for 8 years. It's always a treat to walk in...regardless of the 20 minute walk from the parking lot!
@jenhaley
@jenhaley 3 жыл бұрын
Used to live off of Casino Rd., right by this facility, and I’m surprised it wasn’t used as a movie sound stage when the latest jets were grounded and parked on the outside. It’s HUGE!!!
@douglasshouganai2516
@douglasshouganai2516 3 жыл бұрын
grounded? the 737 max which was grounded is principally made in Renton, not Everett.
@procatprocat9647
@procatprocat9647 3 жыл бұрын
@@douglasshouganai2516 One or two planes have been grounded around the world for Covid....
@jenhaley
@jenhaley 3 жыл бұрын
@@douglasshouganai2516 There are a bunch of planes parked in Everett (and Renton), but this was before November (last time i was home).
@99twenty9
@99twenty9 3 жыл бұрын
I live here! Thanks for doing this video!
@Liampowell4
@Liampowell4 3 жыл бұрын
Wife and I did the tour when we were in the seattle area; very cool! very big!
@zylaaeria2627
@zylaaeria2627 3 жыл бұрын
Been waiting for this one. As someone who works logistics, I can attest to how big warehouses can be on the inside. They are quite deceiving to the external viewer. The Boeing Everett factory though is on a class of its own. The warehouse I work at is like some 250-300 meters in length & it can take just shy of 10 minutes to walk from one end to another. Can't imagine how crazy it can get inside the Boeing plant.
@HughieMunro
@HughieMunro Жыл бұрын
You must be a slow walker 😂
@aaronleder2290
@aaronleder2290 3 жыл бұрын
i like how i’m watching this in boeing and working on the 747 lol
@bryanglaser88
@bryanglaser88 3 жыл бұрын
I always love driving passed this place! It’s so cool!
@twstf8905
@twstf8905 3 жыл бұрын
This is like three blocks from my house, where I'm sitting right now watching this. 👍
@fight2flyphoto
@fight2flyphoto 3 жыл бұрын
5:32 Man, that picture of Paine Field takes me back. No delivery center, no composite wing center, only one hangar for Flying Heritage Collection, and NO 787's parked on 11/29. Gotta be at least 10 years old.
@rangerbug97
@rangerbug97 3 жыл бұрын
thank you sir .I really wanted this one.
@UncleManuel
@UncleManuel 3 жыл бұрын
Damn Simon, that transition to the ad segment was smoooth! 😁👍
@Averagecanadian1984
@Averagecanadian1984 3 жыл бұрын
I love ur background music on mega projects bro....props to whom ever came up with it 😎
@patrickmcglonejr8163
@patrickmcglonejr8163 3 жыл бұрын
I live less than 5 miles from Paine field (my work is next door) and I can hear them testing the engines almost as if I was at the end of one of their runways. Every day I drive past and its size still amazes me every time!
@Krahazik
@Krahazik 3 жыл бұрын
I used to work at the major maintenance facility on the south end of the field. That was awesome to look out across the field on breaks.
@Christian24583
@Christian24583 3 жыл бұрын
was hoping you would make this one, really curious about it
@Home_Run_Kid72
@Home_Run_Kid72 3 жыл бұрын
"No matter how much I love where I live, if someone offers me 10X what it's worth.. I'm gonna take it!" had me dying laughing at the pure emotion in the ending of the sentence! 😂😂
@Terpy_Tea
@Terpy_Tea 3 жыл бұрын
Watching this video while listening to jets taking off from Paine Field, it's a vibe.
@cjgriffin2694
@cjgriffin2694 3 жыл бұрын
Great video. Loved it. Now what about the biggest car factory in the continental US?
@jetsons101
@jetsons101 3 жыл бұрын
Of all the 7x7 airliners the 717 airliner was originally designed and sold by McDonnell Douglas as the MD-95 till about 1997 when Boeing bought McDonnel. That place is really big, I only saw it from the outside. As usual another great video, thanks for your time and work....
@cyber1nix
@cyber1nix 3 жыл бұрын
Honestly I live like 30 minutes from this and its almost unnoticeable xD
@JonnyPerris
@JonnyPerris 2 жыл бұрын
Watched another of your videos about the Spanish island plane crash , you mentioned this without mentioning you had made a video about it. What a lovely discovery :)
@adamantium1983
@adamantium1983 3 жыл бұрын
Ah! Another Megaprojects Vid! My day is starting off well!
@vegandestroyer3782
@vegandestroyer3782 3 жыл бұрын
I remember touring the Factory, they said that it has its own weather on the inside and i found that wild.
@liamo.1562
@liamo.1562 3 жыл бұрын
You should cover Iron Mountain in Pennsylvania!
@chaptermastertushan3576
@chaptermastertushan3576 3 жыл бұрын
It's weird to see a megaprojects video on something I have been in
@joeywatch1145
@joeywatch1145 3 жыл бұрын
No one? No "your mom" jokes? I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
@chaptermastertushan3576
@chaptermastertushan3576 3 жыл бұрын
@@joeywatch1145 can't trust anyone anymore
@micahphilson
@micahphilson 3 жыл бұрын
I live near the Strategic Air Command air museum, so I've grown up seeing all these WWII and Cold War era fighters and bombers, even an SR-71! So now it's so strange to hear all the stories behind so many of them, it makes me want to go back and see them again in person!
@TheFlyingFish692
@TheFlyingFish692 2 жыл бұрын
I’ve worked in a small hangar a few blocks away from Boeing for years and would always go past this building on my way to work. Now, I’ve finally made the jump after years and starting at Boeing soon. 💪💪
@drfarrin
@drfarrin 3 жыл бұрын
WOO! He mentioned the Astrodome! Simon, you need to do a sideprojects video on the Houston Astrodome. It's a pretty signifigant building in the history of sport arena innovation and its origional floor plans include a private access elevator to a skybox-apartment for the elected official who built it.
@dragonslyer74
@dragonslyer74 3 жыл бұрын
My father in-law worked here for 75yrs and the story's he told were amazing
@jt8251
@jt8251 3 жыл бұрын
My favorite part of living in Mukilteo was driving by the Everett building late at night when there was little traffic on the 526. When those giant doors were open it was an amazing sight. Hard to comprehend the size.
@Josh_FSD
@Josh_FSD 3 жыл бұрын
you should do a video on the Minuteman Missile silos and The Pyramid of North Dakota!!
@FLS96
@FLS96 2 жыл бұрын
It's crazy in architechture that every detail must be carefully thought of, and on this scale, it's kind of unbelievable.
@GoodVideos4
@GoodVideos4 2 жыл бұрын
In 2005, when I was at Seattle, I went on a guided tour of that place. Very impressive. They had for instance just completed an Air New Zealand Boeing 737. The flight crew was also there, ready to take it away. They were also busy assembling a 747 for Air China. There was also a Comet that they were restoring. They had also recently built five Me-262 replicas that had been sent to Germany.
@chrissyknowsitall5170
@chrissyknowsitall5170 3 жыл бұрын
Mu husband works for Boeing and has been to this plant. He is right, it's MASSIVE!!
@Swiftkitten88
@Swiftkitten88 3 жыл бұрын
i haven't been to this factory but i did tour the united maintenance facility at SFO, before i got my aircraft mechanics license. the largest hanger i saw there housed 4 747 sized aircraft in it, and even that was difficult for my brain to comprehend the size of. this is truly insane
@tig3rjax494
@tig3rjax494 3 жыл бұрын
When I went to Seattle for a vacation in 2019. I went and visited Boeing. It's unbelievable. My favorite part of the trip besides walking downtown and Pike Place Market.
@coweatsman
@coweatsman 3 жыл бұрын
"it may be hard to imagine a company like Boeing going out of business..." So was the case of Pan Am, the very company which was responsible for the 747 being developed by Boeing.
@megaprojects9649
@megaprojects9649 3 жыл бұрын
Fair point. And easier to imagine now than ever.
@alexc1926
@alexc1926 3 жыл бұрын
@liamgarret.so you're saying that the US gov't never bailed out Boeing?
@duncannada
@duncannada 3 жыл бұрын
Imagine running late and just having to run forever to get anywhere.
@wizzarin424
@wizzarin424 3 жыл бұрын
yes out of experience it's time consuming. Normal day from the parking lot to my desk is over a 1/4 mile walk, (and I part inside the fence). I've been working here for over 27 years. One day LONG ago when i first started here, I normally had to park outside of the fence on the North side of the building, (mind you there are buildings you have to go around to get to the main building, but on this one weekend I got to park inside and I parked on the South side. I really hated that day, I forgot i had parked inside at the end of shift and I walk ALL the way out to the North end where I normally parked when I realized my car was on the OTHER side of that building on the South Side.
@orcasea59
@orcasea59 3 жыл бұрын
Bikes are at a premium inside the plant, but bicycle theft is a fine art there. Some people go as far as to paint them, but...incredibly, they still get found.
@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647
@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 3 жыл бұрын
Try not to run while on empty LOL
@mikehoffman3690
@mikehoffman3690 3 жыл бұрын
Very cool subject. Thanks for sharing.
@normvandenhandel4462
@normvandenhandel4462 Жыл бұрын
I started working there in 1989 on the 747-400 model. I have worked other sites in Washington but have been back in this building for the last 3 years. 😁
@drose457090
@drose457090 3 жыл бұрын
I live about 2 miles down the street. Its HUGE. Even the massive planes that come out of the giant doors are dwarfed by the building.
@theblockyist3918
@theblockyist3918 3 жыл бұрын
Maybe do a video on the Eisenhower Interstate system?
@Rhett2200
@Rhett2200 3 жыл бұрын
SLAM - the nuclear Big Stick. An absolutely insane cold war cigar tube of crazy! Would love to see it
@cybulskiya8725
@cybulskiya8725 3 жыл бұрын
Can you do the trans alaska pipeline or the prudhoe bay oil field 😊 My grandfather helped build the pipeline and my uncle works in prudhoe bay as a welding inspector so i’d love to learn more about the history of those things
@shadowOrgon
@shadowOrgon 3 жыл бұрын
Should do an episode on Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. Large shipyard that build/built the nimitz class and currently building the Ford class carries. And half of the Virginia class subs
@carlllewellyn
@carlllewellyn 3 жыл бұрын
Great video as always! Do one on Brooklands race track in Surrey!
@aaronstonebeat
@aaronstonebeat 3 жыл бұрын
How about the reconstruction of the spillway of the Oroville Dam?
@kannakev
@kannakev 3 жыл бұрын
seeing the factory from a plane is seriously mind blowing. it's unfathomable until you see it from the air
@nateverge1167
@nateverge1167 3 жыл бұрын
My dad worked there & I've been inside several times. It's really amazing to see! Fun fact about the paint hangar: the 747 is too big to fit inside so they paint one half then flip it around to do the other half.
@RyanKlapperich
@RyanKlapperich 3 жыл бұрын
Simon: "... with the original structure measuring 42.8 acres, one and one quarter the size of the Pentagon." Video graphic: "1/4" Never change, Simon.
@tncorgi92
@tncorgi92 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but they found out you can only fit one plane into the Pentagon.
@potjemayo1
@potjemayo1 3 жыл бұрын
I have suggestion for a video: the palace of versailles!
@monstrok
@monstrok 3 жыл бұрын
How big is this building and the complex it sits on? When I worked in the Everett factory, my commute from home is shorter than my walking time from the parking lot to the office.
@Celestyal22
@Celestyal22 3 жыл бұрын
I live right near that factory and it indeed will produce its own weather if given the chance. (And no building comes with AC around here. Opening a door or window is just fine) It was also SUPER nice when Paine opened again for flights a year or two ago! Boeing is also notorious for lay offs even before Covid. And the trains carrying the parts for the planes travels right near my apartment. It's not odd seeing the body of 5-6 just tied down to the cars. Lol
@Aegor1998
@Aegor1998 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for featuring my state.
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