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...Boeing first built a 3,200-lb., 125-h.p., 78-m.p.h. wood and linen seaplane. In the years thereafter, Boeing made a land-based biplane that was the U.S.'s first efficient airmail carrier; it helped him to win the profitable San Francisco-Chicago route. Boeing's Monomail 200 in 1930 was the first plane with retractable landing gear; his 1933 ten-passenger Boeing 247 was the U.S.'s first twin-engined commercial transport plane, and the Boeing Stratoliner in 1938 was the first transport with a pressurized cabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Boeing at 50 | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...years ago Boeing Airplane Co. turned out the Monomail, a sleek, fast, low-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear. Main features of the Monomail's design were worked into a big twin-engined bomber recently developed by Boeing for the Army. Last week Boeing announced near completion, for autumn delivery, of the first of a fleet of mail-&-passenger planes adapted from the bomber design for United Air Lines (like Boeing a subsidiary of United Aircraft & Transport Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Peaceful Bombers | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

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