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William E. Boeing, Jr. in the Red Barn at The Museum of Flight, July 2011. William Edward Boeing Jr. (November 22, 1922 – January 8, 2015) was an American real estate developer [ 1 ] and philanthropist who was the son of aviation pioneer William E. Boeing , founder of the Boeing Company . [ 2 ]
The couple had a son of their own, William E. Boeing Jr. (1922–2015). [18] The stepsons went into aviation manufacturing as a career. Nat Paschall was a sales manager for competitor Douglas Aircraft , which later became McDonnell Douglas .
William Boeing (1881–1956) – founder of Boeing; Charles Bolden (born 1946) – NASA Administrator; Viktor Bolkhovitinov (1899–1970) – lead designer of the Bolkhovitinov DB-A bomber, founder of the OKB-293 design bureau; Ludwig Bölkow (1912–2003) – aerodynamicist for the Me 262; Alan Bond (born 1944) – designed spaceplanes and an SST
William Boeing , founder of the aerospace company that still bears his name, was not an aircraft buff from the beginning -- but he came pretty close. Boeing, heir to tracts of timberland in the
George Conrad Westervelt (December 30, 1879 – March 15, 1956) was a U.S. Navy engineer who created the company "Pacific Aero Products Co." together with William Boeing. [1] Westervelt left the company in 1916 and Boeing changed the name of the company to the Boeing Airplane Company the following year.
Boeing won a contract in 1961 to manufacture the S-IC stage of the Saturn V rocket, manufactured at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1966, Boeing president William M. Allen asked Malcolm T. Stamper to spearhead production of the new 747 airliner on which the company's future was
The United Aircraft and Transport Corporation was formed in 1929, when William Boeing of Boeing Airplane & Transport Corporation teamed up with Frederick Rentschler of Pratt & Whitney to form a large, vertically integrated, amalgamated firm, uniting business interests in all aspects of aviation—a combination of airframe and aircraft engine manufacturing and airline business, to serve all ...
United Airlines was the creation of aviation pioneer William Boeing, who started out in the airplane business in 1916. His Boeing Airplane Company, as it was then called, achieved the first international postal delivery in 1919, and he went on to establish United Aircraft Corp. in 1928.