Available to the trade for the first time - including up-to-date information on the new 7E7. In the early years of the twentieth century William Edward Boeing summed up his new company's mission: "To let no new improvement in flying and flying equipment pass us by." And sure enough, in the century since, nothing and no one has outflown Boeing. The Story of the Boeing Company, plane-maker to the world, unfolds on a fittingly grand scale in this book that is at once the history of one company and the story of an industry. ...
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Available to the trade for the first time - including up-to-date information on the new 7E7. In the early years of the twentieth century William Edward Boeing summed up his new company's mission: "To let no new improvement in flying and flying equipment pass us by." And sure enough, in the century since, nothing and no one has outflown Boeing. The Story of the Boeing Company, plane-maker to the world, unfolds on a fittingly grand scale in this book that is at once the history of one company and the story of an industry. Aviation author Bill Yenne follows Boeing from its modest beginnings in 1916 as Pacific Aero Products, with a single two-seater floatplane, to its present lofty position as the largest aerospace company in the world. Lavishly illustrated, "The Story of the Boeing Company" showcases the historic aircraft that made the company's name - from the B-17s and B-29s of World War II to the 707 Jetliner that revolutionized commercial flight; from the mammoth 747 to the B-52 Superfortress that still soldiers on over 50 years after its debut. Yenne describes the moves and mergers that have brought together in one corporation four of the most important and influential companies in aerospace history - Boeing itself, Rockwell International, McDonnell, and Douglas - and recast Hughes Space and Communications, the world's largest maker of communication satellites, as Boeing Satellite Systems. He tells the story of these aviation pioneers' shared legacy, detailing milestones like the Douglas World Cruisers that completed the first around-the-world flight; the Boeing B-17 and B-29 and the North American Aviation P-51 of World War II; the Douglas DC-3, probably the most influential propliner in history; the Boeing 707 and 747 that defined the jetliner era; and every American spacecraft that has carried astronauts into space. Finally, "The Story of the Boeing Company" looks to the future, with an absorbing account of the new 787 "Dreamliner" program.
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Very good in Very good jacket. 288 pages. Illustrations (many in color). Production Close-Ups. Index. Format is approximately 11.25 inches by 11.25 inches. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Bill Yenne is the author of more than three dozen non-fiction books, as well as ten novels. His work has been selected for Chief of Staff of the Air Force Reading List, and he is the recipient of the Air Force Association's Gill Robb Wilson Award for the "most outstanding contribution in the field of arts and letters [as an] author whose works have shaped how thousands of Americans understand and appreciate airpower." Mr. Yenne has contributed to encyclopedias of both world wars, and has appeared in documentaries airing on the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, C-SPAN, ARD German Television, and NHK Japanese Television. His on-air credits also include his appearance on Mystery Files: Sitting Bull on the Smithsonian Channel, which was filmed at the Little Bighorn Battlefield in Montana. Among his memorable appearances on C-SPAN was a recent discussion of his book Operation Long Jump: Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill and the Greatest Assassination Plot in History. In the early years of the twentieth century, William Edward Boeing summed up his new company's mission: "To let no new improvement in flying and flying equipment pass us by." And sure enough, in the century since, nothing and no one has outflown Boeing. The Story of the Boeing Company, the tale of the plane-maker to the world, unfolds on a fittingly grand scale in this book that is at once the history of one company and the story of an industry. Lavishly illustrated, this book showcases historic aircraft that made the company's name-the B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-29 Stratofortress of World War II, and the B-52 Superfortress that still soldiers on over 50 years after its debut to the 707 jetliner that revolutionized commercial flight and the mammoth 747. Fully updated, it includes the 787 Dreamliner, Airborne Laser Testbed (ALTB), and EA-18G Airborne Electronic Attack Aircraft.
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