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Dreamliner nose shows the face of future plane factories

Tomorrow's factory today: A lone technician at Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kan., tends the machine that winds carbon fiber tape around a mold to form the plastic shell of the 787's entire forward fuselage section. Shown is part of what will be airplane No. 7.

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