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CLASSIC
AIRLINER
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CLASSIC
AIRLINER
BOEING
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ILLIAM BOEING BECAME
interested in aircraft after seeing
early examples at an event in
California. He established his
business and successfully sold aeroplanes to the
United States Armed Forces, as well as forming an
air transport operation which used aircraft of his
own making. This led other airlines to buy Boeing
aircraft and in the years before World War Two
Boeing produced some advanced designs, which
included a pressurised airliner and a large
long-range flying boat. The outbreak of war meant
that air travel was seriously restricted and future
designs were, naturally, placed on hold. Boeing
forged ahead with their famous B-17 Flying
Fortress bomber of which nearly 13,000 had been
built by the time the war ended. They also
produced the pressurised B-29 Superfortress,
which has gone down in history as the aircraft that
dropped the atom bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki to end World War Two.
While Boeing were making bombers, Douglas
and Lockheed had produced troop transports that
were easily adapted as airliners for the post-war
market. Boeing produced the Stratocruiser but it
was not a success and left the Seattle company
looking for an alternative. They were busy with the
USAF jet bomber programme and using that
experience were able to design and introduce
what became the world’s most famous airliner in
the form of the Boeing 707. For a company that
was not known as a commercial aircraft
manufacturer they simply took over the market
and dominated the airline scene which they
compounded with the Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet.
Boeing’s dominance has recently been
challenged by Airbus with their range of airliners
but Boeing still has a healthy share of the
commercial airliner market and look set to
continue to be part of the scene for many years
to some.
François Prins, Editor
June 2013
Acknowledgements
Rebecca Gibbs (Production Manager)
Paul Silk & Rob Terry (Art Editors)
Sue Keily (Ad Sales Manager)
All images are from the
Aeroplane
Archive and the Boeing Company, unless otherwise credited.
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CLASSIC
AIRLINER
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Contents
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The Boeing Company
William Boeing was a timber
merchant but on seeing an early
aeroplane decided he could do
better and started his own
aircraft manufacturing business.
As a supplier of aircraft to the
US Army and US Navy, Boeing
was in an excellent position to
bid for the future bomber
contact. They designed and built
two of the most famous, the
B-17 Flying Fortress and the B-29
Superfortress.
Work with pressurised aircraft
before and during the war
enabled Boeing to introduce an
airliner that captivated air travel.
The military version was long
lived and continued in front-line
service until the 1990s.
American signed on the dotted
line the orders poured in from
across the globe. Soon the B707
was seen in the liveries of the
world’s leading airlines.
Boeing in Wartime
Prototype
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and Build Design
Developed in great secrecy, the
Boeing Dash Eighty was the first
of a new generation of airliners
that challenged the world.
Entering service as the Boeing
707 the aircraft has become a
byword in aviation circles.
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Military Service
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Enter the Stratocruiser
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Airline Sales and Service
At first US airlines were slow to
see the potential of Boeing’s
new aircraft but after Pan
Purchased as a stop-gap aerial
refuelling aircraft, the KC-135
soon earned its spurs in the
Vietnam War and spawned an
entire family of aircraft, from
radar surveillance to nuclear
monitoring and from tracking
surface vessels to VIP transport.
The military 707 has not slowed
down its hectic schedule.
Cover image shows the Boeing Dash Eighty
prototype taking-off with a fixed undercarriage of
twenty wheels during trials for the C-5 programme.
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