Boeing Progressing at Fastest Pace in Years on Air Force One
'As we go forward, we have been able to see our way through some of these requirements that were just physically impossible to do,' Steve Parker, the interim head of Boeing's defense business, told journalists at the Paris Air Show on Monday. 'We're just making really, really good progress.'
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