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THE book to read on the Boeing 247,
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This review is from: The Boeing 247: The First Modern Airliner (Hardcover)
This book is a very comprehensive work regarding the development, creation, and implementation of an influential though little-known aircraft, the Boeing 247. On it's surface it would seem to be a very limited appeal book about a fairly obscure subject but the insight into the thought processes of the Boeing Company prove to be excellent. A fair bit of ink is devoted to the internal decision making process and, ultimately, how wrong they got it regarding the 247 and how doing so threw the door open for Douglas to create the DC3 and take an early lead in the commercial aircraft market. I would certainly highly recommend this book for anyone interested not just in the 247 but anyone interested in the Boeing Company and/or in the dawn of commercial aviation would get a great deal out of the read as well. I shared my copy with my dad, a 50 year veteran Boeing engineer, and he appreciated pretty much exactly the elements of the book that I did. There is another book on the 247 out there but my dad agreed with me that it covered no new ground and the "old ground" wasn't covered in as much depth. The author's access to archival material (and obvious willingness to spend the time reviewing same) from several key sources is readily apparent. Five stars for anyone interested in the Boeing 247, the Boeing Company ca. 1930's, the dawn of "modern" commercial aviation or in Golden Era aviation in general.
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Antique aircraft aficionado's delight..,
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This is a fine, uncomplicated book. One hopes that there is a market for information about the Boeing 247, an early 1930s airliner that was quickly eclipsed by another that achieved instant and long-lasting fame (The Douglas DC-3). One wonders if anyone other than aged airline pilots and aircraft museum staff even know what the Douglas 247 is. This book is a good way to learn about early airliners and their development. The subject can be interesting to anyone who is even mildly inquisitive about history and early 20th century technology.Today's passengers are accustomed to all manner of inconveniences from the time they arrive at an airport through the time beyond when they have arrived at their destinations. They missed the thrills and conveniences associated with travel aboard airliners that transported only 10 or 20 people, when airport parking was easy, ticket counters uncrowded and when most people smoked and no one complained about it, not even aboard commercial aircraft. Airliners such as the Douglas 247 regularly flew at altitudes below 10,000 ft. Such a plane ride was often subject to the ups and downs of "air pockets" (as rough air was called). Probably as many passengers who were frightened or made airsick by flights through rough air, believed the experience to be exciting. Passengers aboard the 247 and later commercial aircraft were not subject to the dangers experienced by travelers aboard even earlier, wood and cloth-covered aircraft. Those airplanes were subject to destructive, structural failures. From the 1933 advent of the Boeing 247 onward, airliners were made of metal and therefore much safer to fly in. But this is not to suggest that there weren't metal aircraft before 1933. In the 1920s there were the Stout and Ford metal aircraft. <The Boeing 247> is full of information, and has many black and white drawings and photographs. It is easy to read. People who today view air travel as something like a ride on a crowded bus, might become more interested in what earlier travelers made air trips aboard. This book is for the general reader. Explanations are clear, and free of mathematical equations. It is both entertaining and informative.
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