在1949年至1950年期间,波音公司开始研究一种新的喷气式运输机,并看到了一种旨在同时面向军事和民用市场的设计的优势。空中加油正在成为军用飞机的标准技术,超过800架KC-97同温层货运飞机已下单。KC-97并不适合与美国空军的新型喷气式战斗机和轰炸机一起使用;这就是波音公司的新设计将赢得军事订单的地方。[7] As ...
Boeing restarts 737 MAX production with other key planes to follow soon As it recovers from a weekslong Machinists strike, Boeing delivered just 13 planes in November, it announced Tuesday. Business Boeing & Aerospace December 9, 2024at 9:50 am ...
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"He was pretty cool, calm and collected, so that kept everybody else on the plane pretty cool, calm and collected," one passenger said. "When the captain came out to explain what had happened, the passengers gave him a round of applause," another passenger said. "I...
Along with Airbus, Boeing forms one-half of a duopoly that dominates the manufacturing of large passenger planes. Both companies have yearslong backlogs of orders from airlines eager for new, more fuel-efficient planes. And Boeing is a major defense contractor for the Pentagon and governments arou...
Passenger Brian Jokattold CNNthat the pilot said they lost control of the plane, causing the incident. "I immediately engaged with him and said, 'What was that?' And he openly admitted, he said, 'I lost control of the plane. My gauges just kind of went blank on me,'" Jokat told ...
When Michael Riggs started work on the Boeing B-52 programme almost 20 years ago, the newly-hired engineering graduate expected Boeing would soon move him off the Stratofortress programme. “I thought it was going to be kind of a short stint, because it
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S . experts said Thursday China ' s new passenger planes pose no immediate threat to Western aviation companies such as Boeing and Airbus .The maiden flight of China ' s C919 passenger plane , scheduled for Friday from Shanghai Pudong International Airpo
By the 1940s and 1950s, air travel had become safer and more convenient. The first president to fly in an aircraft while in office was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who traveled on a Boeing 314 flying boat to the 1943 Casablanca Conference on the progress of World War II. The threat from the...