Boeing Aerospace

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This paper outlines the origins of the Boeing Aerospace Company which which first started in a boathouse in 1915 and today is the world's leading aerospace company. It describes William Boeing's early life, his first plane designs and flight experiences and his airmail career. It examines its contributions to the military in World War I and its near bankruptcy afterward.

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"Boeing also opened the first airmail service between Vancouver and Seattle in a B-1 Flying Boat. In 1934, federal antitrust laws forbade airmail carriers from associating themselves with aircraft manufacturers. The government also canceled its airmail contracts with private planes and gave them to the United States Army. But when the army lost 12 airmail pilots in two months, the government had no choice except to give the contracts back to the companies. Boeing was the only one who did not get his contract back because he was declared "ineligible and unfit to carry airmail.""

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