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Boeing and 247D
No. 121 RCAF Squadron Boeing 247D, c. 1939
October 30, 1935-A United Air Lines Boeing 247D, NC13323, crashed during an instrument check flight near Cheyenne, killing the four crew members aboard.
: This designation was given to the first Boeing 247 aircraft, it was used to test a number improvements, that were later incorporated into the Boeing 247D
: Designation for Boeing 247D airliners " drafted " into military service in USAAF, 27 in total.
Boeing 247D at the National Air and Space Museum showing United Air Lines markings in this view.
* December 27 – United Airlines Trip 34, a Boeing 247D, crashes at the head of Rice Canyon in Los Angeles County, California, killing all 12 people on board.
* October 7 – United Airlines Trip 4, a Boeing 247D, crashes east of Silver Crown, Wyoming, killing all 12 people on board.
* October 30 – A United Airlines Boeing Model 247D airliner on an instrument check flight with no passengers on board crashes near Cheyenne, Wyoming, killing the entire crew of four.
* Boeing 247D Serial: 1699 Registration: CF-JRQ
Before the formation of BLEU, an automatic landing was made at the Telecommunications Flying Unit ( TFU ) of the TRE at RAF Defford in a Boeing 247D aircraft, DZ203, early in 1945, using the American SCS 51 radio guidance system.

Boeing and its
* 1967 – The first Boeing 737 ( a 100 series ) makes its maiden flight.
Dutko's and its strategic partner AMI Communications ( PR company owned by ODS members ) customers are Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Nortrop Grumman, which are largest contractors for NMD development.
* 2009 – Boeing's new Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.
* 1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden " flight " on top of a Boeing 747.
During the 80's the Airborne Early Warning / Ground Environment Integration Segment ( AEGIS ) upgraded the original NADGE systems with the possibility to integrate the AWACS ( the E-3 Sentry built by Boeing ) information into its visual displays.
* 1994 – The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, makes its first flight.
* 1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first " jumbo jet ", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
Following the " peace dividend " after the fall of the Soviet bloc, the company sold its defense and aerospace business, including what was once North American Aviation and Rocketdyne, to Boeing Integrated Defense Systems in December 1996.
* 1975 – The Hughes ( later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing ) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
In 2012 Pullmantur Air started its charter operations from Madrid-Barajas Airport with three Airbus 321s and two to three Boeing 747s.
* August 12 – The NASA Space Shuttle, named Enterprise, makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ( SCA ).
* February 9 – The Boeing 747 makes its maiden flight.
* December 2 – The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its debut.
* September 30 – At Paine Field, near Everett Washington in the United States, Boeing officially rolls out its new 747 for the media and the public.
* April 9 – The first Boeing 737 ( a 100 series ) takes its maiden flight.
* September 30 – The Hughes Helicopters ( later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing IDS ) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
** The Boeing 767 airliner makes its first flight.
It also found itself popular among the academic world for research and analysis of audio, and for more clandestine operations, such as speech analysis and manipulation by the intelligence services, submarine sonar and sound analysis by the Navy, flight simulators for Boeing, and even by NASA as the core of the digital camera system on board the Galileo Probe sent to study and photograph Jupiter and its moons.
In 1984, the Boeing Company chose CATIA V3 as its main 3D CAD tool, becoming its largest customer.
* Boeing 787 Dreamliner-the world's first jet airliner to make use of composite materials for most of its construction
Mars Needs Women is padded with long sequences taken from stock footage ( the North American X-15 spacecraft being launched from its Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress mother ship and General Dynamics F-111 fighter-bomber in particular ).
Boeing launched its first passenger-carrying waterjet-propelled hydrofoil Boeing 929, in April 1974.
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!

Boeing and Race
With the Space Race underway and Boeing having " put Seattle on the map " as " an aerospace city ", a major theme of the fair was to show that " the United States was not really ' behind ' the Soviet Union in the realms of science and space.
" Pioneers in Aviation: The Race to the Moon ", which profiles four of America's legendary aerospace pioneers -- William Boeing, Donald Douglas, Dutch Kindelberger, and James McDonnell -- whose achievements led the nation and the world from the era of open-cockpit biplanes to the very threshold of Space.

Boeing and markings
Boeing 727-100s were introduced on important European routes from 1967 in a unique colour scheme ; the fin markings incorporated bare-metal rudder and white engine colours.
* A128 Boeing 707 ( in United Airlines, Lufthansa, Continental and Trans Euro markings )
The Boeing KB-50J 49-0372 They are working on it now, lots of polishing and repainting of markings and general clean-up of bird and oil debris.
The first Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber operated by German forces, in KG 200 markings.
* During the Shanghai Incident on February 22, 1932 Lt Robert Short ( US Army Reserve ) while piloting a Boeing 218 with Chinese markings damaged one IJN Type 13 carrier attack aircraft, killing the pilot, Lt. Kotani and wounding the observer, before he was killed in action.

Boeing and c
On 16-Jan-1965 a fuel laden Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker ( 57-1442, c / n 17513 ) crashed after an engine failure shortly after take off from McConnell.
On 22 July 1983, Air Canada's Boeing 767 ( registration, c / n 22520 / 47 ) flew from Toronto to Edmonton where it underwent routine checks.
On 23 June 1985, the aircraft operating on the route — a Boeing 747-237B ( c / n 21473 / 330, reg VT-EFO ) named after Emperor Kanishka — was blown up by a bomb at an altitude of, and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while in Irish airspace.
The aircraft involved in the accident was a Boeing 737-222, tail number OB-1451, c / n 19072, that had its maiden flight on.
The aircraft involved was a Boeing 747-122 ( c / n 19875 / 89, reg N4713U ), delivered to United Airlines on October 20, 1970.

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