If Apple (according to a carefully maintained caption) started in a & nbsp; garage, then & nbsp; Boeing & nbsp; & mdash; in & nbsp; a hangar to store a boat. & nbsp; June 15 & nbsp; June 15 & nbsp; M. & nbsp; of & nbsp; the first plane, built by a semi-educated engineer named William, took off from & nbsp; It & nbsp; made a fortune in the & nbsp; timber trade, but & nbsp; threw wood for the sky.
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William Edward Boeing was born on October 1, 1881 in Detroit to a family of wealthy German immigrants. When he was born, his name was Wilhelm Boeing , but & nbsp; Can these Yankees explain what the 'O' is? ? umlaut? He didn't wait for graduate school, left Yale University a year before graduation.
After the death of his father, William invested in the lumber industry.
In & nbsp; 1910 & nbsp; city & nbsp; in Los Angeles, Boeing carried out & nbsp; demonstration flights of the first aircraft in & nbsp; America and & nbsp; realized that the 29 & nbsp; previous years of life had been wasted. It & nbsp; went for & nbsp; to dream & mdash; so romantic. But & nbsp; & mdash; how is it in american & nbsp; & mdash; because I felt a lot of money behind my & nbsp; dream.
In 1916, the B&W seaplane designed by Boeing appeared. The firstborn, collected from & nbsp; wood at hand, was born near the house of & nbsp; Boeing in & nbsp; a boathouse on & nbsp; the shores of Lake Union. An experienced pilot was hired for the B&W testing, but he was late. Tired of waiting, Boeing sat at the helm and & nbsp; made its first flight.
A replica of a Boeing B & amp; W seaplane at the Seattle Aviation Museum. Source: public domain
Flying Mail
In & nbsp; 1918 & nbsp; g. Boeing consisted of 300 full-time employees: & nbsp; pilots, engineers, designers, carpenters and & nbsp; seamstresses who cut and & nbsp; sewed the linen surfaces of the wings.
When World War I thundered in Europe, Boeing sold 50 trainers of our own design. The Model C seaplane did not shine with special achievements, but & nbsp; became a good workout machine.
After the war the company didn't have to go through better times, but Boeing didn't shut it down. He has been paying forestry company employees for some time, and & nbsp; it has paid off.
The next development was the S-700 aircraft, created by Boeing in 1918. This aircraft carried out the first franking of the & nbsp; Canada to & nbsp; Seattle. The era of international airmail began with this historic flight. So many people survived in the aviation of that time. Let us remember the “ Poste du Sud & # 39; & # 39; Saint-Exupéry.
Boeing's letter carriers carried everything: mail, passengers, urgent cargo. The planes were getting bigger, the seats & nbsp; & mdash; gentler, flight attendants appear in lounges. In the early 1930s, the company held 30% of the US passenger and mail market. Business has climbed the & nbsp; mountain, while in & nbsp; 1933 & nbsp; g. Boeing did not fall under the roll of US antitrust laws. The Sherman Act prohibited airlines from simultaneously engaging in air transport and aircraft construction. The company was forced to split into three parts. Boeing didn't like that he sold his stake and left the aviation business. Until the end of his life he raised horses on his own ranch and sailed on his own yacht. On & nbsp; he, he & nbsp; and & nbsp; died near the Canadian coast on 28 & nbsp; September 1956 & nbsp; g. His ashes were scattered over the sea from a Boeing plane.
Postal Boeing Model C, March 1919 Source: Public Domain
War and & nbsp; Boeing World
Since & nbsp; since then the company has been run by different people, there have been ups and downs. The failed years of the Great Depression gave way to the fat years of World War II, when Boeing sold the B-17 heavy bombers and & nbsp; B-29 to the US government by the thousands.
In & nbsp; 1946 & nbsp; g. the company had to lay off 70,000 people. But the cold war broke out and & nbsp; Boeing began to build strategic B-52 bombers, which until & nbsp; still form the basis of US long-range aviation.
In & nbsp; 1967 & nbsp; g. & nbsp; in & nbsp; the first flight went the ocean liner Boeing-737, which was destined to become the best-selling aircraft of all time and & nbsp; peoples & nbsp; & mdash; more than 2000 & nbsp; boards. A year later, a huge Boeing 747 soared into the sky. The CEO at the time, William Allen invested a lot of money in a new project. When asked what would happen if the prototype crashed during the & nbsp; first & nbsp; theft, it & nbsp; replied: & nbsp; Let's talk about & nbsp; something nicer & nbsp; & mdash; for example, about & nbsp; nuclear war.
Boeing in Highlander
According to & nbsp; 2019 & nbsp; year, the cost of Boeing amounted to 186 & nbsp; billion. More than 150 & nbsp; thousand. Human. Seven of the ten civilian liners that tour the world were built by Boeing. How did the boathouse business succeed?
Over the course of its more than 100-year history, Boeing has outlived a dozen competitors, and & nbsp; after all, their & nbsp; names once thundered and & nbsp; in & nbsp; America, and & nbsp; in the & nbsp; world. Where is Curtiss now, on whose plane William Boeing first took off as an amateur pilot? Alive, but the plane is no longer built.
Where is McDonnell Douglas, in which aviation legends such as the DC-3 transporter, F-4 Phantom fighters and & nbsp; F-15 Eagle? In & nbsp; 1996 & nbsp; g. absorbed by Boeing. Much the same has happened to & nbsp; others: “ Republic '', founded by a native of & nbsp; Russia Alexander Seversky , & nbsp; “ Northrop Grumman '' and & nbsp; t. e. The whole history of American aircraft construction & nbsp; & mdash; solid 'Highlander', where at the end there should only be one.