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Died. Clairmont L. Egtvedt, 83, former president and board chairman of the Boeing Co.; of pneumonia; in Seattle. Starting as a draftsman in the company's two-story frame factory in 1917, the shy, University of Washington-trained engineer became Boeing's president in 1933 and served as chairman from 1939 until 1966. Determined to create a "superweapon of the air," he spurred creation of the first B-17 Flying Fortress in 1935. By the war's end 12,731 Flying Fortresses had been built for the Allies and had dropped more than 640,000 tons...
...Vought, Sikorsky Aviation, Northrup, and five smaller companies. Two years after that, United Air Lines was formed to tie together the combine's booming air-transport business. Phil Johnson moved to Chicago to head United Air Lines, soon turned over the reins of the Boeing division to Designer Egtvedt. Other young men hurried to Seattle as Boeing's name spread-Edward Wells arrived at the age of 21, destined to design whole families of Boeing planes; hustling, roly-poly Wellwood Beall, 28, engineer, pilot and crack salesman who first taught engineering at the School of Aeronautics, then went...
Five years later, Boeing's team of Egtvedt, Beall and Wells flew its famed 74-passenger 314 flying boat (the "Clipper"), designed for the first regular transatlantic runs. Then they built another four-engined airliner, the "Stratoliner," the first transport with a pressurized cabin for high-altitude travel. Boeing built 22 Stratoliners and 314s. But the planes, expensive to operate, and complicated challenges to airline maintenance crews, did not sell in quantity. Boeing lost a total of $4,500,000 on its twin giants and found itself in financial trouble...
...ship is Boeing's postwar superairliner, the "Strato-cruiser," in a military transport version. Boeing says the Stratocruiser can fly 100 passengers, in the plushiest kind of comfort, from New York to London in eleven hours; from New York to Los Angeles in seven. Clairmont Leroy Egtvedt, Boeing's conservative board chairman, published the startling figures...
...Boeing plant, some 50 miles to the north in Seattle, work was stopped on ten other Stratoliners, three of which have been ordered by Pan American airways. Perplexed, President C. L. Egtvedt of Boeing declared: "It was . . . one of the best we have built. I can't believe the fault lay in the ship itself." Quick to deny that this implied sabotage was Boeing. But the facts remained that the first Stratoliner, carefully built and tested on the ground, had flown about 23 hours in closely supervised engineering tests without sign of structural weakness, that into her building...