The Boeing Everett Factory: The Biggest Building in the World (By Far)
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Wondering how many people are working in this giant building at this time. I know that some of there contracts have been put on hold. I know we do parts for them.
Please make a video about Bar Lev Line, costing around $300 million in 1973.
Check out the mckinley climate laboratory they can simulate almost any weather for testing aircraft and anything else
Its horrible to see our governments allow such devestation to so many peoples jobs at companies like boeing for a disease that has killed only half the amount of people in america last year that cigarette related heart disease killed in the same period of time.
I worked there for over 10 years. It's hard to comprehend how big the building is even after working there for so many years. It basically feels like a city within a building. The worst is if you work on the 767 line and get to work late. Nothing like walking to the middle of the building from the farthest reaches of the parking lot. It was easily a 20+ minute walk.
Then you also know how much of a fucking hell hole Everett is...
@@Blindashitmetalasfuck born and raised in washington state 31 years of this utterly cancerous state it is trash.
@@Blindashitmetalasfuck have you been to Tacoma? Everett is friggen Medina by compareison. 😄
@@Blindashitmetalasfuck ah! Good to see other Everottites on this channel! And yes this city is a sh*t hole! Lol
@@ganjatheninja this state is great, what are you talking about? Go live in Oklahoma, Arkansas or Missouri and try to say this state is trash lol
When you drive past the 747 assembly plant it doesn't really seem that big, until you go past on one of those hot summer days when the bay doors are opened and you see rows of entire 747s parked inside, then your brain actually starts to understand the scale.
you can set 5 empire state building on it side in there, or the complete Disneyland including parking lot Inside the Building for just two examples.
Couldn’t agree more. That was my experience too and it took a while to process what I was seeing. Luckily it’s so big you see that sight a few more times before you’re past the place and that repetition only magnifies how insanely huge the place is.
It is hard to appreciate truly massive buildings on anything but foot. I underestimated the closed down Tempelhof airport for a long time, until I tried taking a short-cut through the "park" (the old landing fields) to the BBQ area. It took half an hour walking briskly. Still faster than walking around the terminal building which would be even longer yet. Tip of advice, if a building has 3 separate subway stations in a row, it is pretty big.
I can't count how many times I've driven past the Boeing plant.
Even just driving around boeing perimeter road. I used to buy brn from my friend that worked there. It always made me less confident in flying since he was using the entire time hes worked there. Ive gotten clean and stopped talking to him, but he was close to maxing out and he never got drug tested, which is crazy. This was over 3 years ago
The building is massively impressive inside and out. As someone in Aerospace manufacturing and driving by the plant almost daily this story is close to home, thanks Simon.
My grandfather worked in that building for 24 years on the 747, he just recently passed away. The 6th was the year anniversary of passing, he loved that company. Thank you for doing this video Simon.
I am sure he had some stories to tell.
It is a great thing when a man can work for a company that long and still love the company. It shows that the company is good but also that your grandfather was a good employee and a hard worker.
@@sam_s_ he would have worked there longer but had to involuntarily retire do to his eyesight getting really bad.
@@andrewanderson9896 That had to have been frustrating for him. Sounds like a hell of a guy.
The Houston Aerodrome? That’s an ice skating building in Northern Houston.
I believe you meant Houston Astrodome.
The picture he used is the astrodome and it's from quite a few years ago. Those rounds towers on it have been demolished for some time
@@jeremyfranks7608 Even without the towers, still seems a tad bit bigger (and better known) than the Aerodrome. 😆😄😂😲
He’s British I can forgive him
That's a terrible name for an ice rink.
🙄 Dude.
Well done... I'm a 20 year Boeing veteran, with all that time in Everett. All good stuff you presented.
Is there really shops and stuff inside?
@@Alex632 Yep... coffee stands, dry cleaners, about 10 different cafeterias. It's huge. Also true that alot of folks exercise in the tunnels at lunch.
@@777FreakyDThere’s also a theater under the 777 line.
Been there. Boeing Factory Tour. Highly recommeded.
Me too! It was awesome!
@@LCTeam2011 Me three! Went there three years ago. Impressive. Boeing will come back for sure.
I grew up a few dozen miles away from that factory, it single handed lay employed half of my school friends parents, it employs so many people that when they get off work it clogs the freeways for hours and they have to offset their shifts from normal work hours to avoid causing gridlock three cities long
Yeah, Everett traffic is as bad as Seattle....
Thats such a cool fact. Shoulda been in the video lol
The Vehicle Assembly Building at Cape Canveral Fla is a masive building as well. where they built the Saturn V and the space shuttle.
Not to mention that these two buildings has their own weather!
It’s the tallest single story building in the world.
The assebly bulding is the third largest singel span bulding wirh both of the two larger one being in germnay
Just for some scale the nasa building is 348,000 square ft and the Boeing factory is 4.2 million square ft... I had to look it up since I my self have been to the nasa vehicle assembly building that’s just mind blowing
@Mr Ed
Actually the Space Shuttle's were built in Palmdale, CA., at USAF Plant 42 Site 1 with a Ferry Flight to KSC.
One of the smallest Aerospace Hangars I've ever worked in i.e. Site 1.
Now this is a mega project (maybe giga in some parts)
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When I was in the Navy stationed in Whidbey Island Wa. we had a aircraft make a emergency landing there. When we got there to fix the plain they had moved it into a manufacturing hanger because it was snowing. Our plain, an A-6, looked like a ear bud in the back of a 18 wheeler. That was one of the smaller hangers, the main manufacturing area could hold a couple of those smaller hangers with room to spare.
*plane twice. At least you weren't in the Air Force and don't know how to spell plane.
@@etonbachs4226 heard of voice to text?
@@alesspot3816 The aircraft was one of our squadrons, we just went down to Boeing to fix a hydraulic issue. We didn't work with any Grumman techs that time. I was there because the set pan got hydraulic fluid on it, and I changed it.
@@tequilastraightup595 Which squadron? I was in VA-145.
@@TheFalseShepphard 🚔 yeah the spelling police always need to be in charge 🚔🤣❤🇨🇦.
As a Washington native, I always love it when you cover something from our state.
After you already covered the Hanford Project, now I'm just waiting for the Columbia Basin Project, the largest water reclamation project in the country, with the largest Hydroelectric dam in North America at its center, The Grand Coulee Dam, which is about 3x the volume of the Hoover Dam.
Another measure of how big this place is: In the past some of the local car clubs I belonged to would set up race-car courses ("autocross") in the parking lot on weekends! AND we only took up a tiny portion of the parking lot!
This place is truly massive, and if its ever possible to take tours again, I highly recommend it.
The cops also practice in the Parking lots on weekends
Hey, my workplace! I love walking the factory. Walked 3 miles one day without ever backtracking. Amazing place with truly amazing people.
Would absolutely love to get in there for a tour one day, i work for Boeing Australia even our site is massive in comparison to neighbouring factories and certainly a company to be proud of with the culture and innovation
I live near this building, your brain doesn't even register how huge it is in PERSON until you see someone walking next to it.
Yeah, inside is unscalable. You have no reference points from any other building
Me too! It is huge.
I toured it, and still you only see a tiny portion. I love that they have to have bikes and electric carts for employees just to even get from one part of the building to another!
From the pic in the vid it just looks like a large Costco or warehouse, no big deal... then I froze the vid and looked more closely... those are football field sized hangar doors that look like tiny loading dock doors!! Holy cow that is one mega structure! Very deceiving, can only imagine how much rain water they collect off that roof for production and utilities.
@@micahphilson Haha yeah, going for a coffee I'll be back in 2 hours 🤣❤🇨🇦.
"building something is never easy, building something massive, is, just, also not going to be easy"-Simon Whistler, 2021.
hahaha, I never comment, but when he said that, I thought to myself "This needs to be in the comments." James, thanks for being on top of it. haha
@@tysidaho looool no problem (: glad to be of service
I am such a big brain with comments like this.
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They give tours of this building...well, at least they used to. No idea what it's like post-covid. But I had been before that and it's absolutely worth it. Really neat stuff.
I live about a 2 minute drive from there. One thing to note is that this building is so large that it has it's own weather system and it still does rain in there. Sometimes it could be sunny outside and raining inside.
Guess they can't quite manage to dehumidify a half billion cubic feet of air all the time :D I don't recall it raining when I toured the plant a few years ago, but it was kind of hazy up in the rafters. :D
I was an IBM employee contracted to Boeing at the Everett plant and I had an apartment directly across the street. This was in 1995,6,7 during 777 development.
The plant is massive! I use to take my children to Paine field on the weekends to watch test flights or new builds in their shiny liveries launch to customer destinations. It was quite amazing. Thanks for the video. I'm glad I subscribe.
Ok, so when I lived in Everett my apartment was just blocks from this building, and I'd drive by it sometimes when carpooling to work.
As good a job as Simon does trying to convey just how truly myriad this building is, words simply cannot do it. It is SO HUGE that looking upon it completely recalibrates your entire sense of what a large building is.
Words really are inadequate to explain to someone how big this thing is, it's quite simply on a totally different scale compared to anything else you've ever seen.
Words are inadequate----especially "myriad." (Sorry).
You got out of Everett? Good job.
Did you live on Casino Road?
I worked in the Everett factory for fifteen years - 10 on the '47 and 5 on the '77. Even after fifteen years (most of those hard years, the aircraft industry is known for it's massive overtime, when the 747-400 was released 80-hour weeks were common) I would walk inside to start my shift and would often just stand in amazement at the grand scale, and occasionally the overhead cranes built into the ceiling carrying a completed 747 wing an center box overhead. It's a stunning place, truly a Wonder of the Modern World.
I am former Everett worker, in the design and administration buildings surrounding the factory. I used to run in the tunnels for exercise. They would also store the massive LONG wiring harnesses for the planes in the tunnels awaiting being installed into the aircraft...
They did not have the coffee shops when I worked there...
I've toured this factory, it still is difficult to comprehend how giant this plant is, and I've spent time in atomic accelerators
I've lived near it for 14 years and still don't understand how big it is lol.
I have toured the Everett factory. Its impressive, especially the sky crane they have inside.
I got to see lots of neat stuff all over the country as a truck driver for 30 years. One I'll never forget was delivering a trailer load of airplane seats to Boeing from a factory in North Texas. I thought I drove a big truck until I got it inside the factory.
Imagine running late and just having to run forever to get anywhere.
yes out of experience it's time consuming. Normal day from the parking lot to my desk is over a 1/4 mile walk, (and I part inside the fence). I've been working here for over 27 years. One day LONG ago when i first started here, I normally had to park outside of the fence on the North side of the building, (mind you there are buildings you have to go around to get to the main building, but on this one weekend I got to park inside and I parked on the South side. I really hated that day, I forgot i had parked inside at the end of shift and I walk ALL the way out to the North end where I normally parked when I realized my car was on the OTHER side of that building on the South Side.
Bikes are at a premium inside the plant, but bicycle theft is a fine art there. Some people go as far as to paint them, but...incredibly, they still get found.
Try not to run while on empty LOL
I work at the factory in Everett on the 777 plane. This video was a good one to briefly showcase the factory.
I could listen to Simon talk all day.
Wait a minute. I already do.
He has a new channel by the way.
@@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 When doesn't he have a new channel? I subscribe to everything Simon! I have no idea how this guy has time to do all this & still have some family time. Geesh just listening to all his channels is a full time job.
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The beard needs it's own channel!!
@@SAMnELLA-1 yes it does Woof, that beard has made me change my mind about guys with beards, I'm female by the way
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Maybe Metamucil could be if not a mega project, a side project.
That's not good, if this channel ends up like HH... That's highlight history for you non-legends.
Well, I think a lot of nursing home residents who watch you tube would like to see Metamucil and bowel care as a side project.
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Question: Do you fly to each location for your research on your MANY DIFFERENT DIVERSE subjects .If so that's a great perk with a already cool job ! Tami
Used to live off of Casino Rd., right by this facility, and I’m surprised it wasn’t used as a movie sound stage when the latest jets were grounded and parked on the outside. It’s HUGE!!!
grounded? the 737 max which was grounded is principally made in Renton, not Everett.
@@douglasshouganai2516 One or two planes have been grounded around the world for Covid....
@@douglasshouganai2516 There are a bunch of planes parked in Everett (and Renton), but this was before November (last time i was home).
I live near there. My dad helped build that place and installed most of the equipment to build those aircraft you mentioned.
Work on a couple of the hangers as a Ironworker. One building we hung more tons of steel that year then all other building in the USA. One center fill in of a king truss was over 500,000 lbs. We had nuts that weight 50 pounds in more ways then one. Best couple of years of hanging iron , had a top raising gang boss. Ice and wind crazy fun.
Thank you Simon for doing my suggestion!!
I live in Everett.... it's massive! Absolutely colossal
You should do a video on NASA's VAB. I know it was briefly talked about during the Saturn V video but if any building deserves it's own video, it's the VAB
I worked there for a decade. Amazes me every time I walk in.
"it may be hard to imagine a company like Boeing going out of business..."
So was the case of Pan Am, the very company which was responsible for the 747 being developed by Boeing.
Fair point. And easier to imagine now than ever.
@liamgarret.so you're saying that the US gov't never bailed out Boeing?
It's weird to see a megaprojects video on something I have been in
No one? No "your mom" jokes? I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
@@joeywatch1145 can't trust anyone anymore
I live near the Strategic Air Command air museum, so I've grown up seeing all these WWII and Cold War era fighters and bombers, even an SR-71! So now it's so strange to hear all the stories behind so many of them, it makes me want to go back and see them again in person!
I've seen the Everett factory, but I used to live up on the hill overlooking the Renton factory for a couple years. I could see the runway from my patio. Every once in a while I'd catch a brand new jet taking off, no paint. Pretty spectacular.
Visiting this place is one of the few bucket list items I've checked off. It did not disappoint.
How about the reconstruction of the spillway of the Oroville Dam?
Very interesting video Simon I have always wondered about this building. Thanks for uploading.
I’m a truck driver and the building in the center foreground in your opening shot held,at least at the time,a Boeing contractor that I delivered to. While being unloaded I looked over the wall behind the building at the assembly hanger across the way. The folks walking around outside looked like ants compared to the hanger.
Honestly I live like 30 minutes from this and its almost unnoticeable xD
I worked as a Contractor here (before eventually working at Boeing Field). One night while 3 stories up in the racks around a 747 the power went out. The only light I had was on my cell phone. It was a long, eerie walk to the nearest door.
Turns out a rat ate into the main power cable and shut the plant down for two days.
Toured this factory maybe 3 years ago and it was amazing!
I love this channel so much. Keep up the amazing work.
Raining inside the factory. The Northwest lives up to it’s reputation. 67 days of rain in a row is normal here. Moss never sleeps 🛌
Last year we had I wanna say 115 days in a row of rain
and this weeks weather forecast, we have rain with scattered sunshine
5 months of gloom with occasional flooding.
@@ronnelson7828 interspersed with showers🌧🤣🇨🇦❤
I worked in McCook Illinois which hosts the General Motors Electro-Motive Rail Way Assembly plant. It was so funny driving into the plant with ambulances and police cars to get to the scene of whatever we were called there for.
The work-isles were called "bays" and resembled streets. The place was way over a million square feet and was enormous.
Simon: "... with the original structure measuring 42.8 acres, one and one quarter the size of the Pentagon."
Video graphic: "1/4"
Never change, Simon.
Yeah, but they found out you can only fit one plane into the Pentagon.
I lived in Everett and have toured the building. It is amazing.
Very cool subject. Thanks for sharing.
I was lucky enough to go to school almost next door to this place.
My middle school had an aerospace class and our field trips included tours of Boeing plus some short flights in small planes from Paine Field.
I got to meet astronauts and even took a field trip to California where I saw the ISS mockup at AMES research center.
I was allowed to hold a space shuttle tile heated up to many hundreds of degrees! It was white hot in the center but completely cold and gray on the corners!
What a town.. it was.
Shout-out to O.V.
I went to Mukilteo elementary for a year (next door), ended up moving across town and finishing at Jefferson/Explorer/Cascade, but i had a lot of friends at Kamiak.
thanks
Mr. GnG 👋 I heard a couple years back the SWAT team was called in because somebody reported an employee bringing in what looked like a rifle. Turns out it was an umbrella.
Been waiting for this one. As someone who works logistics, I can attest to how big warehouses can be on the inside. They are quite deceiving to the external viewer.
The Boeing Everett factory though is on a class of its own. The warehouse I work at is like some 250-300 meters in length & it can take just shy of 10 minutes to walk from one end to another. Can't imagine how crazy it can get inside the Boeing plant.
You must be a slow walker 😂
This is like three blocks from my house, where I'm sitting right now watching this. 👍
Mu husband works for Boeing and has been to this plant. He is right, it's MASSIVE!!
thank you sir .I really wanted this one.
"No matter how much I love where I live, if someone offers me 10X what it's worth.. I'm gonna take it!" had me dying laughing at the pure emotion in the ending of the sentence! 😂😂
Wife and I went there on vacation, it was an INCREDIBLE tour!!!!
My wife and I made sure to pay a visit to the Boeing Everett facility when in Seattle for our honeymoon in 2007. Our tour group were among the first to see the new and not even tested 787 under construction. While there we also got to see the DreamLifter, the 747 converted to carry assembled parts of the 787 trans-oceanic. HUGE aircraft! Impressive facility and the adjacent Boeing Museum is must-sees if you are in the Pacific Northwest along with the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Seattle itself!
You do a great job great voice too. Nobody do commentary better than you and at such speed! Truly enjoy all your work
I always love driving passed this place! It’s so cool!
Wife and I did the tour when we were in the seattle area; very cool! very big!
Used to go to school down the road from here. Been waiting for this one
Worked there for 8 years. It's always a treat to walk in...regardless of the 20 minute walk from the parking lot!
Watched another of your videos about the Spanish island plane crash , you mentioned this without mentioning you had made a video about it.
What a lovely discovery :)
was hoping you would make this one, really curious about it
I love ur background music on mega projects bro....props to whom ever came up with it 😎
I’ve been there! It’s really impressive. You can feel the size.
5:32 Man, that picture of Paine Field takes me back. No delivery center, no composite wing center, only one hangar for Flying Heritage Collection, and NO 787's parked on 11/29. Gotta be at least 10 years old.
I remember touring the Factory, they said that it has its own weather on the inside and i found that wild.
My favorite demonstration of the size of the Everett Factory is that it’s large enough to fit all of Disneyland inside.
I loved this episode. Have you ever considered doing an episode on Apple’s new mothership campus? I think it would be cool to see some of the cool details.
I’ve worked in a small hangar a few blocks away from Boeing for years and would always go past this building on my way to work. Now, I’ve finally made the jump after years and starting at Boeing soon. 💪💪
As a Truck driver I actually had the privilege of delivering loads of steel to this facility during part of its construction years ago
Great video. Loved it. Now what about the biggest car factory in the continental US?
The Everett factory is considered a national strategic facility. Given that it has its own power grid fed by high tension lines that stretch across the Cascade Mountains and serve nothing other than the factory. They also have one of the largest police departments and fire departments in the state.
Wow
I live here! Thanks for doing this video!
Ah! Another Megaprojects Vid! My day is starting off well!
One interesting fact about Boeing’s Everett production plant is that it’s so big that you could fit Disneyland inside it. It’s hard to truly comprehend how big the plant is and pictures don’t do it any justice. Seeing it in person will blow most people’s minds.
I live less than 5 miles from Paine field (my work is next door) and I can hear them testing the engines almost as if I was at the end of one of their runways.
Every day I drive past and its size still amazes me every time!
I used to work at the major maintenance facility on the south end of the field. That was awesome to look out across the field on breaks.
i haven't been to this factory but i did tour the united maintenance facility at SFO, before i got my aircraft mechanics license. the largest hanger i saw there housed 4 747 sized aircraft in it, and even that was difficult for my brain to comprehend the size of. this is truly insane
My favorite part of living in Mukilteo was driving by the Everett building late at night when there was little traffic on the 526. When those giant doors were open it was an amazing sight. Hard to comprehend the size.
In 2005, when I was at Seattle, I went on a guided tour of that place. Very impressive.
They had for instance just completed an Air New Zealand Boeing 737. The flight crew was also there, ready to take it away. They were also busy assembling a 747 for Air China. There was also a Comet that they were restoring. They had also recently built five Me-262 replicas that had been sent to Germany.
Damn Simon, that transition to the ad segment was smoooth! 😁👍
I worked in that building from 1979 to 1985, when the FAA hired me. I started working on the 747, then moved to the 767 on the first plane. Big barely begins to describe it. It could take 10-15 minutes simply to walk in to your work location from where you parked your car. I was tasked to do some repair work on some planes that were already outside on the flight line, and it was a 20 minute walk just to reach the aircraft. There were 100s of bicycles within the building for couriers to move things around inside, as well as a fleet of small trucks for moving larger items around. Overhear cranes could move between building sections through an switching system. It was an interesting place to work, but I was happy to be hired to be an air traffic controller and leave Boeing.
WOO! He mentioned the Astrodome! Simon, you need to do a sideprojects video on the Houston Astrodome. It's a pretty signifigant building in the history of sport arena innovation and its origional floor plans include a private access elevator to a skybox-apartment for the elected official who built it.
i like how i’m watching this in boeing and working on the 747 lol
My dad worked there & I've been inside several times. It's really amazing to see!
Fun fact about the paint hangar: the 747 is too big to fit inside so they paint one half then flip it around to do the other half.
When I went to Seattle for a vacation in 2019. I went and visited Boeing. It's unbelievable. My favorite part of the trip besides walking downtown and Pike Place Market.
It's crazy in architechture that every detail must be carefully thought of, and on this scale, it's kind of unbelievable.
Of all the 7x7 airliners the 717 airliner was originally designed and sold by McDonnell Douglas as the MD-95 till about 1997 when Boeing bought McDonnel. That place is really big, I only saw it from the outside. As usual another great video, thanks for your time and work....
Great video as always! Do one on Brooklands race track in Surrey!
Just wanted to quickly add, while there are technically 3 shifts, they use a staggered start. So, people often have very strange start times (ie 06:37 or 07:12) this is done to a) try to help with car traffic on the streets as well as in and out of facility grounds and ensuring there is parking for everyone and b) to help with foot traffic in and out of the building. I can only imagine the logistical nightmare it must be getting 10k people started working on time.
My father in-law worked here for 75yrs and the story's he told were amazing
I worked there as a young engineer in the 1990s. It was an incredible experience.
seeing the factory from a plane is seriously mind blowing. it's unfathomable until you see it from the air
SLAM - the nuclear Big Stick. An absolutely insane cold war cigar tube of crazy! Would love to see it