Boeing History: Breaking Up and Building Bigger
Following the Depression, 1934 antitrust legislation prevented airframe manufacturers from owning mail-carrying airlines. […]
Month: February 2005
A BOOK REVIEW BY WALTER J. BOYNE OF AFTERBURNER: NAVAL AVIATORS AND THE VIETNAM WAR
, is compelling reading for the author has a rare gift in his sometimes magisterial writing, that of projecting situational awareness. […]
Boeing History: Metal Monoplanes
After Charles “Lucky” Lindbergh made the first solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris in a Ryan monoplane in 1927, there was a tremendous surge of interest in aviation. […]
FIFTY HERCULEAN YEARS: THE C-130’S GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY
At two-forty-five PM on a smoggy August 23, 1954 afternoon, the prototype for the next century of transports took to the air in Burbank California, carrying with it Lockheed’s extravagant hopes for a production run of as many as one hundred aircraft. […]
Biplane Fighters, Mail and Passenger Planes
The Boeing Airplane Company began 1923 in a race with the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company to design the best pursuit fighter. […]
Boeing History: Growing Pains – 1903-1936
After the war ended Nov. 11, 1918, the military did not order more aircraft. Civilian biplanes were not selling either. […]