Celebrating 100 years of this global giant among aircraft companies This mighty company evolved from the humble Pacific Aero Products Company, incorporated in Seattle in July 1916 and renamed Boeing Airplane Company in 1917. Boeing's 100-year history spans decades of rich achievement and technological development, first with the manufacture of sea-planes, then fighters and, from the 1930s onwards, huge bombers, innovative transports and finally, gigantic airliners, missiles, rockets and vehicles for moon exploration. Boeing constantly evolved, setting out to develop an entirely new jet transport, and in 1954 the innovative 707 appeared. The 727 and 737 airliners quickly followed and in 1969 the revolutionary 747. By 1975 the ?Jumbo Jet' was being produced in seven different models and new versions continue to be developed to this day. AUTHOR: Martin W. Bowman is the author of over 80 books on military and commercial aviation and a frequent contributor of photographs and articles for 'Flight International', 'Rolls-Royce' Magazine, and 'Aeroplane Monthly'. In 1999 he was appointed an official researcher for DERA SELLING POINTS: ? A photographic history tells the story of Boeing, from early beginnings to the present day ? Completely revising expert author Martin Bowman's Boeing in Photographs and bringing it fully up to date ? With the addition of a large amount of vivid colour imagery ? 15 July 2016 sees the centenary of Boeing's incorporation 220 b/w, 115 colour illustrations
