Legend of world aviation - Boeing aircraft

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

The Boeing aircraft is a legend of world aviation. He began his story on the day when a we althy Seattle lumberjack William Boeing, arriving at a trade show, saw the airship. At that moment, he was seized with an ineradicable desire to fly.

For several years he, tormented by desire, tried to get aviators to take him on a flight. And when his dream came true, William Boeing could no longer imagine himself without aviation and decided to build his own business in the field of aircraft construction. In 1916, the first seaplane was developed and assembled. It was built in an old boat shed near Seattle, on the island, by the future major industrialist, self-taught engineer Verba Monter and the enthusiast Conrad Westervelt, a lieutenant in the US Navy. The first Boeing aircraft took off in July 1916. The device was successful and for money they arranged air walks for those who wished. William Boeing did not stop there. A month later, for $100,000, he bought Pacific Aero Products Co, which was soon renamed the Boeing Airplane Company and immediately received a large order from the Navy. United States to build 50 seaplanes for use in World War I.

William Boeing was not only a gifted engineer and aviator, but also a big businessman. In addition to aircraft construction, his company won in 1927

tender by the United States Federal Post Office and became the world's first airmail carrier with the specially designed A-40. In 1929, a Boeing Model 80-A lifted 12 passengers, crew, and two flight attendants into the air. They were the world's first flight attendants. And the very next year, William Boeing presented the Boeing Monomail aircraft to the American public. It was a utility vehicle. In design, streamlining and architecture, it resembled modern Boeings. From that moment on, the William Boeing company turned into a huge corporation with divisions and branches that produced engines, designed aircraft, trained pilots and technical staff, and provided aviation services. The enterprise was so large-scale that the US government passed a law in 1934 stating that aircraft manufacturers were not allowed to carry out postal and transport transportation. It was a fiasco. The corporation had to break up into several companies, and William Boeing himself, having handed over the board to friends and colleagues, resigned.

The enterprise, however, continued to stay afloat. During the Great Patriotic War, it produced the famous Douglas attack aircraft and Kaydet fighters. Participated in NASA's Apollo program in the 1960s. And inIn 1967, a real masterpiece from the Boeing Airplane Company, the Boeing 737, took to the skies. In the entire history of the aircraft industry, this is the best-selling and most popular car. More than 2,000 units have been purchased. A year later, a giant, the Boeing 747-400, rolled off the assembly line of the company. The wingspan of this aircraft was greater than the distance that the pioneers of aviation, the Wright brothers, flew in their first flight. Since then, a lot of glorious cars have been produced by the Boeing Airplane Company, but, alas, there have been no such successes. Today, the corporation is the largest in the US in the aerospace industry, supplying its products to more than 80 countries.