Alaina O'Berry knew she'd done well for her age. The day after graduating high school, she got a job making airplane engine parts at a Rolls Royce factory in Virginia for $18 an hour. By 22, she had ...
PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, Va. -- A Rolls Royce plant in Virginia that builds turbine blades for jet engines laid off more than 100 workers earlier this year and plans to close the plant in June. Former ...
At the back of the assembly line was an out-of-place looking, hand-lettered sign that was both a source of pride and emotion at the Cirrus plant. It simply read "1,000th." The unfinished fiberglass ...
WICHITA, Kan. – The British aerospace firm GKN has confirmed that it is one of four companies still involved in talks to purchase the Boeing Co.’s commercial airplane plants in Kansas and Oklahoma.