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Dar es Salaam – When the first Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner from Tanzania landed Sunday at the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA), very few would have imagined that a Tanzanian was doing part of those who participated
However, the truth is that Mr. George Jonas (pictured), originally from the Mbeya area, was one of the Boeing technical staff who participated in the manufacture of the Boeing 787 with 262 seats. 8 Dreamliner. The 41-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Labani Mwanjisya of Mbeya, told The Citizen yesterday that he had been participating in the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners maker since 2015 as a Boeing employee, a American company that designs, manufactures and sells planes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites and missiles.
The story of Mr. Jonas goes back to his years at the Ubungo Elementary School of NHC
"It was between 1985 and 1991," he said. After completing his primary education, he joined Azania High School in Dar es Salaam to attend an ordinary education before going to Ilboru High School in Arusha to attend advanced secondary school. "At Ilboru, I studied science and took a combination of physics, chemistry and mathematics (PCM)," he said.
It is at Ilboru High School that luck knocked on his door when he was selected by an American group. nationals who were looking for an ambitious young Tanzanian to work part time in the United States of America (USA) for three months. "I consider myself lucky … I then had no connection and my parents were not rich enough to send me abroad for studies," M said. Jonas, noting that his father was serving in the Tanzanian era. Soldier of the People's Defense Force (TPDF)
In the United States, he attended university and was enrolled at the Wichita State University where he studied a Bachelor of Engineering degree electric and electronic with a minor in mathematics.
This course was to take him to Bombardier Inc., a Canadian multinational aerospace and transportation company based in Montreal, Quebec. He did his internship at the Bombardier plant in Wichita in 2005, particularly at Bombardier Learjet.
After graduating in 2007, he worked as an electrical and avionics engineer at Learjet Business Aircraft of Wichita Bombardier. He worked there for four years before joining Boeing in 2011 as an electronic avionics engineer. He was responsible for all aircraft operating systems
It all started when he was surfing the internet and that he discovered an advertisement for Boeing and he did a try.
"One day when I was at work, I received a call from Boeing, informing me that I was among the 50 candidates who were registered for an interview with me. hiring … They sent me a plane ticket I went to the interview with confidence, knowing that I had nothing to lose because I was already employed Later, he said, he was informed that he had done so and that he therefore had to move from Wichita to Seattle to work with Boeing
training programs. In 2015, he went on to do a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington.
"I have also undertaken several seminars at the University of Washington on aviation safety and aircraft certification. … I also hold a certificate in He said: [TRADUCTION] In 1965, in Tanzania, he runs a project known as STEM. STEM is an abbreviation for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics specifically intended to incorporate project-based learning and integrated learning to complement the science and mathematics curriculum of formal high schools.
million. Jonah is married to Lucy Nyambeye-Jonas and they have two children – Imani Jonas, 16, and Ivan Jonas, 3.
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