The Boeing aircraft is a legend of the world aviation. He began his story on the day when the rich Seattle timber merchant William Boeing, when he arrived at the trade fair, saw an airship. At that moment, he was overcome by an ineradicable desire to fly. For several years he, tormented by desire, tried to get from the airmen to be taken on a flight. And when his dream came true, William Boeing no longer thought of himself without aviation and decided to build his business in the field of aircraft construction. In 1916 the first seaplane was developed and assembled. Built it in an old boat shed near Seattle, on the island, the future major industrialist, self-taught engineer Verba Monter and enthusiast Conrad Westerwelt - US Navy lieutenant . The first Boeing aircraft took off in July 1916. The device was successful and on it for money arranged air walks for those who wished. William Boeing did not stop there. A month later, for $ 100,000, he bought Pacific Aero Products Co, which was soon renamed the Boeing Airplane Company and immediately received a large order from the US Navy for the construction of 50 seaplanes for use in the First World War.
William Boeing was not only a gifted engineer and aviator, but also a major entrepreneur. In addition to aircraft construction, his company in 1927 won The tender of the Federal Post Office of the United States and became the world's first airmail thanks to the specially developed A-40 model. In 1929, the Boeing aircraft of the 80-A model lifted 12 passengers, a crew and two flight attendants. These were the first stewards in the world. And the next year, William Boeing presented to the American public the Boeing plane Monomail. It was a cargo-passenger car. By design, streamlining and architecture, it resembled modern "Boeing". Since that moment the company of William Boing has turned into a huge corporation with divisions and branches that produced engines, designed planes, trained pilots and technical personnel, and carried out aviation services. The enterprise was so large that the US government issued in 1934 a law that aircraft builders do not have the right to carry out postal and transportation. It was a fiasco. The corporation had to split into several companies, and William Boeing himself, having handed over the board to friends and colleagues, resigned.
The enterprise, however, continued to keep afloat. During the Great Patriotic War, it produced the famous Douglas attack planes and Kaydet fighters. In the 60's participated in the program "Apollo" NASA. And in 1967, a real masterpiece from the Boeing Airplane Company - a Boeing-737 aircraft - rose to the sky. In the history of aircraft construction, it is the most sold and popular car. It was bought more than 2 thousand units. A year later, a giant flew off the assembly line of the company - the Boeing 747-400 aircraft. The wingspan of this aircraft was greater than the distance that the pioneers of the Wright brothers flown in their first flight. Since then, many glorious cars were produced at the Boeing Airplane Company, but such success, alas, was no longer there. To date, the corporation is the largest in the US in the aerospace industry, supplying its products to more than 80 countries.