It is one of the iconic names of Delco business.
But this has not been an especially iconic week for Boeing.
The company finds itself under intense scrutiny after a second deadly crash involving one of its new Max 737 jetliners.
There also was some daunting news on the local front, with word that the Army was scrapping a huge program to upgrade the Chinook helicopter fleet. The work was supposed to solidify jobs at Boeing for decades. Now those jobs might be in jeopardy.
That story is all over our front page.
On our editorial page, we talk about what has been a longtime tradition of our representative in the U.S. House in Washington, D.C.
That would be protecting those Boeing workers every time someone in D.C. or the White House put them in the crosshairs of budget cuts.
Republican Curt Weldon did it for two decades, fighting off a proposal to kill the V-22 Osprey program.
The work was continued by Democrat Joe Sestak and Republican Pat Meehan.
The 7th District is gone.
It's been redrawn into the 5th District.
Now that job falls into the lap of new Democratic Congresswoman May Gay Scanlon.
We talk about the challenge in today's editorial.
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