The Boeing Model 247 is an early American airliner, and one of the first such aircraft to incorporate advances such as all-metal (anodized aluminum) semimonocoque...
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The Boeing 737 is an American narrow-body airliner produced by Boeing at its Renton factory in Washington. Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short...
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United Airlines (redirect from Boeing Air Transit)
Retrieved April 13, 2022. F. Robert Van der Linden (December 1, 1991). The Boeing 247: The First Modern Airliner. University of Washington Press. p. 174....
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The Boeing 777, commonly referred to as the Triple Seven, is an American long-range wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial...
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United Air Lines Boeing 247 crash was an accident involving a Boeing Air Transport-operated United Airlines scheduled flight of a Boeing 247, which crashed...
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Oakland, California, with intermediate stops. On October 10, 1933, the Boeing 247 airliner serving the flight, registered as NC13304, exploded and crashed...
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Martin B-10 bomber. The Model 299 design team incorporated elements of the Boeing 247 and the Model 294, especially its use of four engines. The Model 299 design...
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some cases) greater capacity.: 106 Boeing 247 Boeing developed the first truly modern airliner, the Boeing 247, which ushered in key design features...
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Aircraft in fiction (section Boeing 247)
flight on a Boeing 247, including an interior floor plan and passenger operations. The characteristic wing spar obstructions in the Boeing 247's passenger...
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History of United Airlines (redirect from Boeing Air Transport)
these remain United's principal hubs. In 1933, United introduced the Boeing 247; for the first time, passengers could fly across the United States without...
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company Douglas Aircraft Company starting in 1934. It competed with the Boeing 247. In 1935, Douglas produced a larger version called the DC-3, which became...
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By the time controllable pitch propellers were developed, Boeing was building its Model 247 airliner. Two Monomails were built. The second one, the Model...
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Corporation, which was produced primarily in the 1930s to compete with the Boeing 247 and Douglas DC-2. The type gained considerable fame as one was flown by...
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The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Developed...
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Transport Corporation which also owned Boeing. TWA needed a similar aircraft to respond to competition from the Boeing 247 and they asked five manufacturers...
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service propliner was the Handley Page Type W in the 1920s. Then the Boeing 247 made its first flight in 1933, with the Douglas DC-1 and Douglas DC-2...
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or monogram. When the world's first all-metal airliners, such as the Boeing 247, Douglas DC-2, and Douglas DC-3, entered service in the 1930s, the sleekness...
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This article is a list of aircraft that were manufactured by Boeing and are in preservation. On August 12, 1985, JA8119 operating as Japan Air Lines Flight...
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Los Angeles. By the mid-1930s, Western Air Express had introduced new Boeing 247 aircraft. Western Air Express built and owned Vail Airport in Montebello...
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The competition between Airbus and Boeing has been characterized as a duopoly in the large jet airliner market since the 1990s. The duopoly resulted from...
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all 15 on board were killed. October 10 – United Air Lines Trip 23, a Boeing 247, exploded in mid-air over Chesterton, Indiana, United States, in the first...
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for United, he had accumulated 1,903 hours as a flight engineer in the Boeing 727 and 33 hours as a flight engineer in the DC-10.: 113 Dennis E. Fitch...
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December 2014. Linden, F. Robert Van der; Seely, Victor J (2011). The Boeing 247: The First Modern Airliner. University of Washington Press. p. 83....
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involving the Boeing 737 family of jet airliners, including the Boeing 737 Original (-100/-200), Boeing 737 Classic (-300/-400/-500), Boeing 737 Next Generation...
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The Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner (or Strato-Clipper in Pan American service, or C-75 in USAAF service) is an American stressed-skin four-engine low-wing...
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Douglas DC-3 (redirect from Boeing DC-3)
transcontinental air service, United Airlines, was starting service with the Boeing 247, and Boeing refused to sell any 247s to other airlines until United's order...
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and 80A remained in service with Boeing Air Transport (later renamed United Airlines) until replaced by the Boeing 247 twin-engined monoplane in 1934....
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The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was an American four-engined propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the United States during...
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removal United Airlines accidents and incidents Flight 23 (1933) 1934 Boeing 247 crash Flight 4 (1935) Flight 34 (1936) 1943 Liberator crash at Whenuapai...
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