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| | org_name_legal = Boeing Company | | | name = Boeing Company |
| | org_name_short = Boeing | | | parent = |
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| | org_logo = [[Image:Boeing-Logo.svg.png|200 px]] | | | website = www.boeing.com |
| | org_homepage = http://www.boeing.com/ | | | company_form = Corporation |
| | org_form = Corporation | | | ownership_type = Public |
| | org_ownership_type = Public | | | stock_symbol = NYSE - BA |
| | org_stock_symbol = NYSE - BA | | | foundation_date = 1916 |
| | org_foundation_date = 1916 | | | founded_by = |
| | org_founded_by = | | | location_street = 100 North Riverside |
| | location_street = 100 North Riverside | | | location_city = Chicago |
| | location_city = Chicago | | | location_state = IL 60606 |
| | location_state = IL 60606 | | | location_country = United States |
| | location_country = United States | | | industry = Aerospace Engineering |
| | category_prime = Aerospace Engineering | | | product = Commercial Aircraft Production |
| | org_ind_rank = 1 | |
| | prime_function = Commercial Aircraft Production
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| | org_leader = W. James McNerney Jr.
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| | org_revenue = $61,530,000,000 Dec 2006
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| | org_income = $2,215,000,000 Dec 2006
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| | org_employees = 154,000 Dec 2006
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| ==Company Heritage== | | ==Company Heritage== |
| Boeing was founded by William E. Boeing. Boeing was [[incorporated]] on July 15, 1916, as the "Pacific Aero Products Co.", in [[Seattle, Washington.]] The company changed its name to "Boeing Airplane Company" on May 9, 1917. <ref>http://www.boeing.com/history/narrative/n001intro.html</ref> | | Boeing was founded by William E. Boeing. Boeing was [[incorporated]] on July 15, 1916, as the "Pacific Aero Products Co.", in [[Seattle, Washington.]] The company changed its name to "Boeing Airplane Company" on May 9, 1917. <ref>http://www.boeing.com/history/narrative/n001intro.html</ref> |
| ===Background & Birth===
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| In 1903, two events launched the history of modern aviation. The Wright brothers made their first flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., and William Boeing left Yale engineering college for the West Coast.
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| Boeing moved to Seattle, Wash., in 1908 and, two years later, went to Los Angeles, Calif., for the first American air meet. Boeing tried to get a ride in one of the airplanes, but not one of the dozen aviators participating in the event would oblige. Boeing came back to Seattle disappointed, but determined to learn more about this new science of aviation. Boeing's air travel was mostly theoretical, explored during conversations at Seattle's University Club with George Conrad Westervelt, a Navy engineer who had taken several aeronautics courses from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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| The two checked out biplane construction and were passengers on an early Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co.-designed biplane that required the pilot and passenger to sit on the wing. Westervelt later wrote that he "could never find any definite answer as to why it held together." Both were convinced they could build a biplane better than any on the market.
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| In the autumn of 1915, Boeing returned to California to take flying lessons from another aviation pioneer, Glenn Martin. Before leaving, he asked Westervelt to start designing a new, more practical airplane. Construction of the twin-float seaplane began in
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| Boeing's boathouse, and they named it the [[B & W]], after their initials. <ref>http://www.boeing.com/history/narrative/n002boe.html</ref>
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| ===Early Years===
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| After Charles A. 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.
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| William Boeing developed a close business relationship with Fred Rentschler, president of Pratt & Whitney, manufacturer of the air-cooled engine that made the Model 40A a success as a mail and passenger transport. In 1929, Rentschler and Boeing set up a new holding company called the United Aircraft and Transport Corp. (UATC). The Boeing Airplane and Transport Corp. became UATC on Feb. 1, 1929, with Boeing as chairman and Phil Johnson as president. <ref>http://www.boeing.com/history/narrative/n010boe.html</ref>
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| ===War & Post-war Development===
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| The United States entered World War II only 16 months after Boeing introduced the Stratoliner. Sales of commercial transports came to a halt. Suddenly, the country needed warplanes, and soon all the aircraft manufacturers began too produce the warplanes the USAF needed.
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| On June 20, 1941, the U.S. Army Air Corps became the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF). To serve the USAAF during World War II, Boeing produced the country's most important heavy bombers, the [[B-17]] and the [[B-29]]; Douglas produced the [[C-47]] and several other crucial military transports and medium bombers. North American built the country's most universally used trainers, the [[B-25 Mitchell]] and the [[P-51 Mustang]].
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| In 1940, the Army Air Corps ordered 80 heavily armed versions of the [[B-17 Flying Fortress]]. Twenty were delivered to the British Royal Air Force in the fall of 1940. These were the first Flying Fortresses to enter combat.
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| By 1941 Boeing workers were building B-17s at a rapidly increasing rate.
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| The years immediately following the end of World War II came with change. The military canceled its bomber orders; Boeing factories shut down and many people lost their jobs. Aircraft Industry was somewhat ruined.
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| The CEO promised to start hiring people back as soon as airlines ordered the [[Stratocruiser]], a luxurious commercial airliner version of the company's four-engine troop [[C-97]] transport, which first flew in 1944.
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| oeing also expanded its product base beyond military aircraft by becoming a major producer of small turbine engines during the 1950s and 1960s.
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| Work continued on the [[B-50]] bomber, although the Army had cut its initial order of 200 down to 60.
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| But the elegant Stratocruiser was not the financial breakthrough the company was hoping-for. What contributed most to the company coffers was adapting the C-97 air freighter as a propeller-powered troop carrier and as the KC-97, an aerial tanker.<ref>http://www.boeing.com/history/narrative/n024boe.html</ref> <ref>http://www.boeing.com/history/narrative/n033boe.html</ref>
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| ==Jet Era==
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| By the late 1950s, the technologies forged in the fires of World War II had impacted every aspect of business and manufacturing. In less than a dozen years, these innovations brought the civilized world into the modern era. The company's [[CEO]] knew that the company had the scientists, the experience and the facilities to lead the country into uncharted territories -- across barriers of sound, time and space.
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| Boeing created new divisions to meet the challenges that came with the Space Age. Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories was created in 1958, and the Pilotless Aircraft division, formed for Bomarc, became the Aerospace division in 1959. In March, 1960, Boeing acquired the Vertol Aircraft Corp., a major helicopter producer located in Philadelphia. Vertol began as a tiny operation called the P-V- Engineering Forum, incorporated in 1943 by Frank Piasecki, which later became the Piasecki Helicopter Corp.
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| ==Company Operating Segments== | | ==Company Operating Segments== |
| ===Commercial Airplanes (CA)=== | | ===Commercial Airplanes (CA)=== |
| | A core company business has always been [[commercial aviation]], beginning with the first all-metal commercial transport, the [[Boeing 247]], in 1933. While Douglas and Lockheed -- firms later acquired by Boeing -- were strong domestic competitors, the [[Boeing 707]] was the first commercially successful jet [[airliner]] and the [[Boeing 747]] the first wide-body airliner dominated their fields. |
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| | Today, the company produces advanced models of its [[Boeing 727]] and [[Boeing 747]], as well as the newer [[Boeing 757]], [[Boeing 767]] (very similar aircraft optimized for different ranges), [[Boeing 777]], and the [[Boeing 787 Dreamliner]]. |
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| ===Precision Engagement and Mobility Systems (PE&MS)=== | | ===Precision Engagement and Mobility Systems (PE&MS)=== |
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| ==Future Plans== | | ==Future Plans== |
| [[Image:BCA Pax Capacity.png|thumb|300 px|Chart containing the capacity of current and future Boeing aircraft]]
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| ====Yellowstone Project====
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| *Y1-Intended to replace the 100-200 passenger aircraft (B717, B737, B757) <ref>http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2005/06/07/198872/not-if.-but-when.html</ref> <ref>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002838129_boeing02.html</ref>
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| *Y2-To Replace the 200-300 passenger aircraft (B757, B767). Was originally developed as the Sonic Cruiser, became the 7e7 which became the B787.
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| *Y3-Intended to replace 300+ passenger aircraft (B777, B747)<ref>http://www.richardaboulafia.com/shownote.asp?id=59</ref>
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| ===See Also===
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| * [[Aerospace engineering]]
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| * [[Engineering]]
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| * [[Spaceflight]]
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| * [[Lockheed Martin Corporation]]
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| ===External Links & Related Organizations=== | | ===External Links & Related Organizations=== |
| * [http://www.boeing.com/ Boeing Company Home Page] | | * [http://www.boeing.com/ Boeing Company Home Page][[Category:Suggestion Bot Tag]] |
| ** New Airplane [http://www.newairplane.com/ Official Site of Boeing's new aircraft]
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| ** Randy's Journal [http://boeingblogs.com/randy/ Blog of the BCA Vice president-marketing Randy Tinseth]
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Legally known as Boeing Company, Boeing is an aircraft and spacecraft development company in the Aerospace industry. The company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and supports: commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight and space launch systems.
Company Heritage
Boeing was founded by William E. Boeing. Boeing was incorporated on July 15, 1916, as the "Pacific Aero Products Co.", in Seattle, Washington. The company changed its name to "Boeing Airplane Company" on May 9, 1917. [1]
Company Operating Segments
Commercial Airplanes (CA)
A core company business has always been commercial aviation, beginning with the first all-metal commercial transport, the Boeing 247, in 1933. While Douglas and Lockheed -- firms later acquired by Boeing -- were strong domestic competitors, the Boeing 707 was the first commercially successful jet airliner and the Boeing 747 the first wide-body airliner dominated their fields.
Today, the company produces advanced models of its Boeing 727 and Boeing 747, as well as the newer Boeing 757, Boeing 767 (very similar aircraft optimized for different ranges), Boeing 777, and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Precision Engagement and Mobility Systems (PE&MS)
Network and Space Systems (N&SS)
Support Systems (SS)
Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC)
Historical Events
Joint Ventures and Partnerships
Boeing has a partnership with Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Future Plans
References
External Links & Related Organizations
