Boeing's multi-aisled aircraft have logged more air hours and are more numerous than any other manufacturer. Almost every transcontinental and intercontinental airline employs Boeing technology-making them the leader in aerospace advances. Boeing Widebodies focuses on these famous aircraft: the venerable 747, first developed in the sixties and still going strong, the 767 with its improved wing span and sweep and the modern 777 with its fly-by-wire controls and biggest twin jet engine ever fitted to an aircraft.Color photographs combined with historical background offer an insiders look at Boeings biggest and most successful commercial aircraft program.
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The world is full of people who would never imagine that a book about a company that makes commercial airplanes could be riveting. I was one of them until I read Michael Haenggi's elegantly written (can this man be an engineer?) tale of Boeing's back-to-the-wall fight for market share against the likes of Lockheed, Douglas, McDonnell-Douglas and the latter-day Hercules, Airbus.
In an industry so vital to commerce, subject to immense barriers to entry, and mortally unforgiving of defective design, engineering, and production, Boeing is doomed to compete with only a small cadre of competitors, one that has grown ever smaller with the withdrawal or acquisition of three of the five corporate monikers mentioned in the last pararagraph. Haenggi narrates the remarkable tale of the breakthrough 747, the hybrid 767, the astonishing 'triple-seven', and Boeing's barely subsonic future. The latter limitation is imposed not by technical obstacles but rather by the political impossibility of a sky producing sonic booms with every passing supersonic aircraft. Haenggi intersperses his truly enjoyable prose with shrewdly selected photographs that do justice to the aircraft he so evidently admires. What's not to like about this book? This reviewer hopes Haenggi writes many more like it.
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Boeing's 747 prototype rolled out of the company's hangar in Everett, Washington, and into public view for the first time on September 30, 1968. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Boeing's 747 prototype rolled out of the company's hangar in Everett, Washington, and into public view for the first time on September 30, 1968. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new airliner, supersonic airliners, program launch, new airplane Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sonic Cruiser, American Airlines, General Electric, New York, Flying Images Worldwide, Los Angeles, Air Force, British Airways, United States, United Airlines, Japan Air Lines, Model Series, Peter Sweetten, Total Deliveries, Total Orders, Boeing Boeing New!
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