Proudly All-Boeing?

The Northwest's aviation culture isn't what it used to be.

Vol. 2 • No. 1

I once owned a T-shirt that said “If it’s not Boeing, I’m not going” across the chest. I wore it as kind of a joke, and mostly when I worked out, but it made me happy. I’m from Seattle. I grew up surrounded by Boeing employees, union-proud machinists and engineers building safety redundancies into the flying buses that shuttled me across t…