KELLY GLASSCOCK / SPECIAL TO THE SEATTLE TIMES

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Dreamliner nose shows the face of future plane factories

Providing support: A 35-foot-tall Brötje robotic machine works automatically across a 787 nose section, fastening metal structural supports inside the plastic shell as the fuselage rotates.

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