Summary
Boeing Commercial Airplanes is a unit of The Boeing Company, based in Renton, Washington consisting of the Seattle-based former Boeing Airplane Company (the civil airliner division), as well as the Long Beach-based Douglas Aircraft division of the former McDonnell Douglas Corporation. In 2006, Boeing was the world’s largest civil aircraft company in terms of orders, overtaking Airbus for the first time since 2000.
Projects
Boeing projects with a Tcl component include
- Common Open Research Emulator
- a tool for emulating networks
Resources
Users of Tcl at Boeing have included
- Robert Ratcliff
- Developed a distributed engineering analysis system framework for Boeing Phantom Works used for preliminary design. It was implemented using a TCL/TK/ITCL/Tix GUI, MySQL relational database and a CORBA communication layer (2000-present). (See Multidisciplinary Design Optimization System Using Higher Order Analysis Codes and Modern CORBA-Based Approach to Ad Hoc Distributed Process Orchestrations Applied to MDO
- Robert A. Lindley
- Bernie Borenstein
- porting a program from SGI to Linux, 2002
- Mark Bailey
- 1997
- Doug Schuler
- 1992
Literature
- SimpleGraphics: Tcl/Tk Visualization of Real-Time Multi-Threaded and Distributed Applications
- Scott Arthur, Moody Samuel, Kwok Dale Karr, Boeing Information Space and Defense Group Seattle, Washington, 1998