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Exit 5 — Bombers to Circuses
Sal: Between exits five and six. Sal: Between the freeway and Lake Washington sit the Boeing Renton Factory and the municipal airport. Sal: The plant covers over a million square feet on land that was semi-swampland until Lake Washington was lowered in 1916. During World War Two it built 1,119 B-29 Superfortress bombers. When the war ended the building closed, briefly sheltering a traveling circus. Peggy: Trapeze artists under a bomber roof. Sal: Boeing reopened the plant in 1949, and in 1954 rolled out the Dash 80 prototype that launched the 707. Today the factory builds the 737 MAX, with…
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