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Billy Roeseler

As a member of Walt Gillette’s New Airplane Product Development team, Billy has since 2000 been suggesting ways of creating more airplane for less cost and weight using innovative composite structures. During the very intensive Yellowstone Project during the last quarter of 2000, he created, along with 20 others from Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) and 20 from Phantom Works (PW), a very attractive business case for a twin aisle, 200 passenger airplane built mostly of composites. This technology was used in 2002 to define the Sonic Cruiser and in 2004 to launch the 787 Dreamliner.
He has participated in workshops on large scale integration of systems and structures and created the Sandwich Working Group to bring together members of Wing, Body, Tail, and Nacelle teams to focus on primary structure below one lb per square foot below $80/lb. This work and testing of bonded boxes during 2005 and 2006 led to serious consideration of low cost, world class, composite wing and fuselage structure on the next, single aisle Boeing airplane and on the empennage of our 787-10, the long range derivative of our Dreamliner.
During 2006 and 2007 he led a multidiscipline team from BCA and PW to define how we could reduce the weight of the main wing box on the 787-10 by 6000 lbs using systems engineering approaches instead of legacy stress vs design vs ops vs systems approaches which are still prevalent here in BCA. These recommendations were very favorably received by top 787 management, and some elements are being incorporated on all of the 787 derivatives.
As supplier interface focal during 2002 for the Wing IPT, he worked with Vought, Wichita, Alenia, HdH, and the Japanese Heavy Industries to tap the best minds in the world for designing and building the next Boeing airplane. As a member of the Test and Technology Team for the 787 Dreamliner, he has continued to suggest cost and weight improvements for our new airplane, improvements needed to meet our cost, weight, and safety requirements.
As the invited Keynote Speaker for the International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM-16) in Kyoto, Japan, he carried the Boeing message to 800 of the best carbonologists from around the world. This talk coincided with the 787 Premier in Everett on 7/8/07. His talk was followed by speakers from Airbus, Embraer, and other world authorities. This presentation “Composite Structure – the First 100 Years,” was so well received by the global composites community he was also invited to join Prof Steve Tsai and Prof Richard Christensen from Stanford, Prof Paul Lagace from MIT, and 10 other distinguished academics from around the world in presenting a design course on composites, hosted by Stanford University.

Billy and his wife, Brook, make their home in Kirkland, WA, where they play with six kids and 13 grandkids on a daily basis.

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