* C-17 History page on Boeing. com

* Boeing: History – Products-North American Aviation Rocketdyne Redstone Rocket Engine

* Boeing History: Philip G. Johnson

* 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.

B-52 is the common name of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, a strategic bomber aircraft designed and built by Boeing for the U. S. Air Force.

Strategic Air Command began deploying Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers and aerial refueling aircraft to the newly completed airfield facilities in 1987.

* 1999 – Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, a Boeing 747-200F crashes shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport due to pilot error.

As of 2011 Air Seychelles operates the RAF air link, using Boeing 767s.

* 1989 – An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Pico Alto mountain in the island of Santa Maria in the Azores, killing 144.

A Boeing 747 aircraft with livery designating it as Air Force One.

* 1985 – A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.

* 1931 – United Airlines begins service ( as Boeing Air Transport ).

* 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashes after an aborted takeoff from Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130.

* 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing 113.

* 1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.

* 2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.

* 1982 – Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, D. C .' s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.

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The only way to fly to Ascension is to fly with the RAF via RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, England on an overnight charter, operated ( as of September 2010 ) by an Air Seychelles Boeing 767-300ER.

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress | B-52D, AF Serial No. 56-0687 on display at B-52 Memorial Park, Orlando International Airport, Florida ( formerly McCoy Air Force Base, Florida ).

However, an embittered Japan Air Lines pilot — driven mad by the deaths of his son and brother during the previous conflict — flies his Boeing 747 directly into the U. S. Capitol.

Estonian Air Boeing 737 | Boeing 737-500 at Tallinn Airport

In 2012 Pullmantur Air started its charter operations from Madrid-Barajas Airport with three Airbus 321s and two to three Boeing 747s.

* 2000 Seattle, WA ( Boeing Air Museum )

The museum annex houses an Air France Concorde ; the Enola Gay B-29 ; the Space Shuttle Discovery ; the Boeing 367 – 80, which was the prototype of the Boeing 707 ; the SR-71 ; and other famous aerospace artifacts, particularly those too large for the main building on the National Mall.

* June 25 – A U. S. Air Force Boeing C135-A bound for Okinawa crashes just after takeoff at MCAS El Toro in Orange County, California, killing all 85 on board.

Several air forces continued to use biplanes for primary training up till WWII and even beyond: the de Havilland Tiger Moth in the Royal Air Force, Stampe SV. 4 in French and Belgian Air Forces, and the Boeing Stearman in the USAF.

The first race car ( in concept only ) fitted with a turbine was in 1955 by a US Air Force group as a hobby project with a turbine loaned them by Boeing and a race car owned by Firestone Tire & Rubber company.

Between 1942 and 1945, Wyler, who became a United States citizen in 1928, served as a major in the United States Army Air Forces and directed two documentaries: The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress ( 1944 ), the story of a Boeing B-17 and its U. S. Army Air Force crew, and Thunderbolt!

In 1981, using experience gained from the XV-3 and XV-15, Bell and Boeing Helicopters began developing the V-22 Osprey, a twin-turboshaft military tiltrotor aircraft for the U. S. Air Force and the U. S. Marine Corps.

Though LeMay lost significant appropriation battles for the Skybolt ALBM and the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress replacement, the North American XB-70 Valkyrie, he was largely successful at expanding Air Force budgets.

* Memphis Belle ( B-17 ), a USAAF Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress whose aircrew was the first in the U. S. Eighth Air Force to complete 25 missions in Europe and return to the United States.

* In 1949, the Lucky Lady II, a Boeing B-50 Superfortress of the U. S. Air Force, commanded by Captain James Gallagher, became the first aeroplane to circle the world nonstop.

* Republic of China Air Force purchased 4 ex-China Airlines Aircraft ( Replaced by Boeing 737 )

Selected on 27 April 1975, the installation served as one of four main U. S. Vietnamese Refugee Processing Centers operated by the Interagency Task Force for Indochina Refugees, where base personnel housed and processed more than 10, 000 Southeast Asian refugees, the first 374 of which arrived on board a Northwest Orient Boeing 747 on 4 May 1975.

Contained inside Edwards Air Force Base is NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center ( DFRC ) where modern aircraft research is still active ( e. g. the Boeing X-45 ).

Wichita saw some of its fasted population growth of the 20th century during the peak of the cold war when Wichita was the headquarters for the Boeing Military Airplane Company and home to the McConnell Air Force Base.

During the April 13 – 15, 2012 tornado outbreak, a tornado struck Wichita on April 14 on the southeast side of Wichita, destroying numerous residences and damaging Spirit AeroSystems, Boeing, Kansas Aviation Museum, McConnell Air Force Base, Hawker Beechcraft.

There is also The Kansas Aviation Museum in the Terminal and Administration building of the former Municipal Airport in South Wichita tucked away near Boeing and McConnell Air Force Base

The base was closed after the war ended, but reopened in 1948 as a U. S. Air Force base and test area for Boeing ’ s B-47 Stratojet and B-50 Superfortress.

Larson Air Force Base, since renamed Grant County International Airport, is now a world-class heavy jet training and testing facility used by the Boeing Company, the U. S. Military and NASA.

In March 2009, the New York Post wrote that the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained emails sent by Pelosi's staff which requested that the United States Air Force ( USAF ) provide specific aircraft – a Boeing 757 – for Pelosi to use for taxpayer-funded travel.

His staff explained that this was done to conserve fuel by not having to fly the usual Boeing 707 Air Force aircraft.

The Boeing 707 that served as Air Force One from the Nixon years through the George H. W. Bush administration ( SAM 27000 ) is on display in Simi Valley, California at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.