Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.

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Elected officials and representatives from community and business groups, suppliers and subcontractors joined more than 1,000 Boeing employees at the company’s North Charleston, S.C., facility today for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of the new 787 Dreamliner final assembly building.
The event took place under a cloud of controversy, as Boeing and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) await a hearing scheduled for next Tuesday in Seattle marking the start of deliberations in a lawsuit filed by the NLRB against the Chicago-based company for alleged coercive actions against its machinists’ union. The hearing, scheduled to take place in Seattle in front of an administrative law judge, launches a process to address claims that Boeing located the factory in South Carolina in retaliation for past strikes by its Puget Sound workforce and chill future strike activity. 
Nevertheless, the NLRB’s complaint, which could take years to settle, appears unlikely to stop Boeing from beginning final assembly of the first South Carolina-built 787 “later this summer.” 
At today’s ceremony, Boeing recognized its own Site Services Group and BE&amp;K/Turner, the design-build team, for their work in bringing construction of the building to completion six months ahead of schedule. It also noted that the BE&amp;K/Turner team has worked 3.7 million labor-hours without a lost-time incident. Employees began moving into the building in May. 
The new facility encompasses 642,720 sq ft of covered space. Plans call for the South Carolina plant to produce three 787s per month by 2013, while Boeing’s Everett, Wash., workforce builds seven.

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