11 1923 DWC transport The Douglas World Cruiser is the first airplane to fly around the world. PW-9 Model 15 fighter The Model 15 is the first successful fighter aircraft designed by Boeing. It has a steel-frame fuselage combined with wooden spars and ribs. I grew up in the world of Boeing aviation. My father flew over 35,000 hours for the commercial airlines. I loved flying, especially the takeoffs and landings, and being in the airports and seeing all the planes and people traveling from city to city. I knew my father flew Boeing aircraft and I thought all planes were Boeing. It was always the name I associated with the energy and excitement that I loved so much about flying! Boeing, here’s to the next 100 years of taking the magic of flight above and beyond. U.S. NAVY CAPT. CORRIE MAYS F/A-18E/F Super Hornet weapons systems officer and events coordinator for the Blue Angels (above), the Navy’s precision aerobatic team that flies F/A-18 Hornets At Continental, my last official job as CEO was to order 20 787s. I was a Boeing guy, obviously. I believed in guys like T Wilson, Frank Shrontz, Phil Condit, Ron Woodard and Dean Thornton—those were my heroes. Every one of them, in some way, added to the success of Boeing. Those were the kind of people that Boeing produced. If they said they were going to do something, they did it. My bet is that 100 years from now we will still be talking about Boeing and it will still be leading the industry, whether it’s with a rocket ship or whatever aircraft they have by then. I would never bet against Boeing. GORDON BETHUNE Former chairman and chief executive officer of Continental Airlines and former vice president and general manager for Boeing’s 737 and 757 programs
Frontiers July 2016 Issue
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