Ingells, Douglas J.
Here, written in exciting, narrative style, is the behind-the-scenes story of the birth of the world's largest commercial jetliner and the history of The Boeing Company's many contributions in the building of the greatest transportation System the world has ever known - the international family of scheduled air lines.
You ride with founder, William Edward (Bill) Boeing on the rickety wings of a vintage 1914 Curtiss "hydroplane" and share with him the vis-ion of great wings to come.
You get to meet and know the "dreamers and doers" - designers, engineers, test pilots, production planners, the executive decision-makers, factory workers - who made the wings grow stronger.
You share with them the pride of craftsmanship, courage and technological "know-how" that started a revolution and evolution in the design, development and manufacture of the Boeing family of commercial airliners which make up more than half of the scheduled airline fleets that roam the world's skies.
You help write history riding in the first "Stratoliner" that introduced the pressurized cabin, "over-the weather" flying; the first U.S.-built commercial jetliner, the famous 707, and the 747 itself, on a flight New York to London, pioneering "The Spacious Age," aloft.
Bight before your eyes, inside the world's largest building, birthplace of the 747 "Super Jet" at Everett, Washington you see the "pieces come together" in a moving panorama of pictures and text describing "The Incredible Happening."
You ride "up front" with the test pilots on the maiden flight of the largest commercial airliner, and take part in subsequent tests on the ground and in the air that pronounced her safe and sound, and ready to take her place in the transportation family.
There's all of this and more in these pages as the "Diary of a Sky Queen" reveals the secrets of her past, present and future.
Softcover, large format
272 Seiten / pages
many photos
very good condition
Fallbrook, California - 1970 - Aero Publishers
Art.Nr. 20940
