On this day in 1916, William Boeing and George Westerveldt established the Pacific Aero Products Company, later to be renamed ‘Boeing’.
William Boeing was born in 1881 in Detroit to immigrant parents, Wilhelm Böing from Germany and Marie M. Ortmann from Austria. In 1903, at age 22, Boeing moved to Hoquiam, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest. He purchased extensive timberland around Grays Harbor. He prospered in the business due to a nationwide construction boom. in 1909, he saw a piloted flying machine for the first time and became fascinated with aircraft.
Boeing took flying lessons at Glenn L. Martin Flying School in Los Angeles and purchased one of Martin’s planes. Martin pilot James Floyd Smith traveled to Seattle to assemble Boeing’s new Martin TA hydroaeroplane and continue to teach its owner to fly. Boeing’s test pilot, Herb Munter, soon damaged the plane.
When he was told by Martin that replacement parts would not be available for months, Boeing told his friend, Commander George Conrad Westervelt of the US Navy, “We could build a better plane ourselves and build it faster.” Westervelt agreed. They soon built and flew the B & W Seaplane, an amphibian biplane that had outstanding performance. Boeing decided to go into the aircraft business, using an old boat works on the Duwamish River near Seattle for his factory.
In 1929, Boeing joined with Frederick Rentschler of Pratt & Whitney to form United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, which was established as a holding company. The new grouping was a vertically integrated company with interests in all aspects of aviation, intending to serve all aviation markets. In a short time, it bought a host of small airlines, merging them with Boeing’s pioneering airline under a holding company, United Air Lines.
In 1934, the United States government accused William Boeing of monopolistic practices. The same year, the Air Mail Act forced airplane companies to separate flight operations from development and manufacturing. William Boeing divested himself of ownership as his holding company broke up into three separate entities:
- United Aircraft Corporation, holding all of UATC’s eastern US manufacturing interests (later United Technologies Corporation)
- Boeing Airplane Company, holding all of UATC’s western US manufacturing interests, which later became simply The Boeing Company
- United Air Lines for flight operations
Hmmm….
Lots of cats!
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Diversification…
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BADA BING BING BING…
My wife got stung by a bee on the forehead. She’s at the ER now and her face is all swollen and bruised. She almost died. Luckily I was close enough to hit the bee with my shovel.
Dear MAGA, you can’t be “pro-life” and also cheer on immigrants being eaten alive by alligators when attempting to escape the concentration camp they were abducted to.
I always said that when I retired, I was going to travel. Just never expected it would be mostly to the doctors.
Apparently, RSVPing back to a wedding invite with “Maybe next time” is not the correct response.
I hope that “Big Beautiful Bill” will be the name of Trump’s cell mate in prison.
Experts: Your children will model the behavior they see. Me: Really? Because my kids have seen me fold laundry. They don’t fold laundry.
Her to him: I told you, I’m not built for a soft man. I don’t listen. I’m unfiltered. I talk back, talk shit for fun, and I have about 37 different personalities.
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” – Gandhi
Lauren Boebert: Who’s ready for the deportation machine on steroids? Rep. Jack Kimble: Approximately 3% of undocumented immigrants have committed felonies. 40% of your immediate family have committed felonies.
All of this is happening because confederates weren’t properly punished.
My dad convinced me that the ice cream truck only played music when it was sold out. Well played dad, well played.
Thoughts and prayers don’t stop flood deaths. But funding the national weather service does.
How can someone be more concerned about American men transitioning into women than they are about American men transitioning into Nazis.
A Muslim running New York City doesn’t bother me. A felon running America does.
We live in a society where conservatives believe in magical weather control machines but not climate change.
People who think the COVID vaccine will modify their genetic make-up should welcome the opportunity.
Riverdance was invented by an Irish family with 7 kids but only one toilet.
Doctor: What happened? Patient: My wife was sleeping and she started talking in her sleep. She said, “Run, my husband is home.” I woke up and jumped out the window.
My favorite type of sunscreen is a house.
To anyone I’ve ever cussed out, laid hands on or disrespected: from the bottom of my heart I hope you learned from it and became a better person.
“How can you make jokes at a time like this?!” Sir, that dark sense of humor is a load-bearing structure.
In 1906 Gideon Sundback invented the zipper. That would make him The Lord of the Flies.
Growing old should have taken longer.
I just taught a really old guy what YouTube is and how to use it and he was blown away. It took everything in me not to show him pornhub.
My mind is exceptionally quiet this morning. I’m suspicious that l’m up to something I don’t want myself to know about. (Bilbo)
“If Epstein had no clients, why am I in jail?” — Ghislaine Maxwell
I found a recipe from Morocco for homemade dinner rolls. It called for fresh thyme but mine was outdated. I used it anyway. It turned out just fine. I really liked that old thyme Moroccan roll.
You’d be amazed how often I’m wrong when people say guess what.
Now that the FBI has come to the conclusion that Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed zero powerful people you have 100% confirmation that he was blackmailing the most powerful people on earth.
Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.
My life would be so much easier if I wasn’t intelligent enough to realize how outrageously stupid some people are.
The Marines are being sent to L.A to round up and deport Mexicans while Mexicans are volunteering in Texas to help save Americans. What a time to be alive.
Today is the birthday, in 1946, of American singer Linda Ronstadt who had the 1975 US No.1 single ‘You’re No Good’, and the 1989 UK No.2 single with Aaron Neville, ‘Don’t Know Much’ plus over 15 other US Top 40 hits. She has earned 11 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, and an ALMA Award. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp9G0zkorio
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