Aviation History

By the late 1950s, the technologies forged in the fires of World War II had impacted every aspect of business and manufacturing. […]

The years immediately following the end of World War II rocked with change. The military canceled its bomber orders; Boeing factories shut down and 70,000 people lost their jobs. […]

The first in a series of articles chronicling the Boeing company during World War II. […]

Following the Depression, 1934 antitrust legislation prevented airframe manufacturers from owning mail-carrying airlines. […]

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. […]

The Boeing Airplane Company began 1923 in a race with the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company to design the best pursuit fighter. […]

After the war ended Nov. 11, 1918, the military did not order more aircraft. Civilian biplanes were not selling either. […]

On July 15, 1916, Boeing incorporated his airplane manufacturing business as Pacific Aero Products Company; a year later, he changed the name to the Boeing Airplane Company. […]

The first B & W, completed in June 1916, was made of wood, linen, and wire. […]

In 1903, two events launched the history of modern aviation. The Wright brothers made their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and William Boeing, born Oct. 1, 1881, in Detroit, Michigan, left Yale engineering college for the West Coast. […]