Category: Boeing

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September 24, 2016

Owls Head Transportation Museum Presents Its 2016 Rally

Located on the north end of the Knox County/Rockland Maine airport, the Owls Head Transportation Museum’s Wings and Wheels Spectacular, held on the first full weekend in August this year, featured aircraft designs that spanned a full century...

Airliners / Boeing / Civil aviation / legends / museums

September 13, 2016

Boeing’s First Century

On July 15, 2016, the Boeing Company marked its 100th birthday. The aircraft manufacturer’s “Founders Day” event at Boeing Field, Seattle was the high point of a celebration that had been going on all year. Boeing was officially founded...

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August 15, 2016

2016 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh Scrapbook

Another EAA AirVenture has come and gone, and it’s time to take stock of what we saw. There were headlines, and behind-the-scenes stories that made splashes across social media sites and web sites around the world. Rather than reiterate old...

Airliners / Airshow / Boeing / EAA / fighters / Liasion Aircraft / military / museums / oshkosh / U.S. Air Force / warbirds

August 2, 2016

Anniversaries Abound at 2016’s EAA AirVenture

The yearly EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh recognized a number of aircraft models and organizations for their milestones of longevity, during the 2016 show, like the Mustang II, a variant of the Midget Mustang, which turned 50 this year....

Airliners / Boeing / bombers / fighters / Helicopters / legends / Trainers / Transports

July 14, 2016

Legacies of Boeing’s First 100 Years

There’s an oft-used quote that you should “…never forget where you came from”. As The Boeing Company turns 100 years, the rich tapestry of people and corporate entities that became parts of the Boeing company are worthy of a...

Airliners / Boeing / bombers / Transports

July 10, 2016

Boeing Marks Its 100th Year in Business

Boeing Headquarters in Chicago, Illinois On October 1, 1881, William E. Boeing was born in Detroit, Michigan. He, and the company he would later found, would offer innovation and expansion to a fledgling aircraft building industry in the early...