| There is some activity going on in Wichita | | | | the Boeing sale to AirTrans Thayer Aerospace |
| even as India comes online to start building | | | | getting a contract for a component on the |
| light aircraft again. It seems that every | | | | Joint Strike Fighter built North East of |
| time it looks like Wichita is in a spiral, | | | | Dallas. If the sector continues a decline |
| someone puts the ball back in the center | | | | which we are hopeful it will not there could |
| kicks the rudder back to zero and pulls back | | | | be another huge set of lay offs and more |
| on the yoke. Well, I'll be damned the | | | | complications for small business machine |
| onlookers say. It is as if the founding city | | | | shops servicing those industries and |
| of the first US Mail Planes still has some | | | | companies. Steinmart and Albertsons pulled |
| powerful spirits flying around from the past | | | | out of Wichita and that cost 600 jobs which |
| entrepreneurs and pioneers who made Wichita | | | | were replaced fairly quickly with new stores |
| what it is today.Two new things are happening | | | | going up on Rock Road and on 400/54 Hwy |
| in Wichita which might help the nearly 6000 | | | | (coined the Yellow Brick Hwy, KS has a good |
| laid off aerospace and aviation workers; | | | | sense of humor with those road signs?) |
| Cessna is building a Citation Jet Center | | | | Personally I prefer to fly over KS it is just |
| customer service issues and Boeings | | | | too far across to drive listening to the same |
| Dreamliner the 7E7 will be partially built in | | | | music on your CD player five times as you run |
| Wichita, but very little of it and recently | | | | out of music in the box. No wonder they make |
| an interesting twist of fate; Airbus will be | | | | airplanes there, the damn state is nearly as |
| building certain wing assembly sections | | | | long as TX, it could be its own country no |
| Wichita, due to the availability of highly | | | | doubt. Lindbergh must have practiced flying |
| skilled laboring the newest materials and | | | | mail there and decided hell it is nearly as |
| components. Still the aviation sector | | | | long as the distance across the pond anyway? |
| predicts another 2500 job losses to make the | | | | And it is about as flat at the ocean too. But |
| total 8,100 job losses or 40% in the next | | | | the technology sector is hurt; Winslow - |
| year, without a return on the aviation market | | | | Online Think Tank forum board. |
| sector. Another recent good piece of news was | | | | |