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Boeing Confirms 7E7 Manufacturing with Japan's All-Nippon Airways Deal.

By Jane Hodges, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 5--EVERETT, Wash. -- April was anything but the cruelest month for Boeing: The company reported a profitable first quarter last Wednesday and announced that its newest jetliner, the 7E7, would officially launch, thanks to a 50-aircraft order from Japan's All Nippon Airways, the company's largest-ever launch order.

"It's official," said Alan Mulally, the president and chief executive officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, beaming before a crowd of workers at the Everett plant las

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