Tuesday Open Lines


Across North Carolina, many license plates read “First in Flight” — a tribute to Orville and Wilbur Wright. Their plane first flew there 110 years ago.

Today, the state has one of the nation’s busiest airports and dozens of aviation companies. And finding workers to fill those jobs has been a challenge.

No longer are workers building legs of furniture, hemming shirts and rolling cigarettes. They’re fixing GPS technology, working on stabilizers and manufacturing the next era of aviation.

So officials in North Carolina have begun a recruiting effort to encourage students to think about a new kind of manufacturing job, in the aviation field.

Read more here:  http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/10/07/228886436/wanted-a-new-generation-of-high-tech-aviation-workers