Wichita workers contribute to Boeing's 7E7 Dreamliner.

By Molly McMillin, The Wichita Eagle, Kan. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 22--While Boeing is marketing its new 7E7 Dreamliner around the world, workers in Wichita are building tooling to help make the plane a reality.

It's an important next step in Wichita's role in producing the plane's forward fuselage section.

Because the 7E7 features a new design using high-technology materials and new production methods, the tooling also is unique.

The tooling, when completed, will have the same shape, contours and curvatures found in the 7E7's forward fuselage.

"It will be one huge tube," Boeing Wichita director of tooling …