01681cam a2200337 i 4500 283110714 TxAuBib 20020420120000.0 020420s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 97-11330 9781571450456 $50.00 1571450459 $50.00 TxAuBib rda Redding, Robert. Boeing : Planemaker to the World / Robert Redding & Bill Yenne. Rev. and updated. San Diego, CA : Thunder Bay Press, 1997. 256 p : ill. (some col.), col. map ; hardbound ; 31 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes indexes. On 4 July 1914, a barnstormer named Terah Maroney was hired to put on a flying exhibition as part of the Independence Day festivities in Seattle, Washington. Having put on a display of aerobatics in his Curtiss seaplane. Maroney landed and offered to take up passengers. Almost on impulse a lumber company owner name Bill Boeing stepped up and allowed as how he'd like to take a ride. What happened in the next 30 minutes changed the course of aviation history and history of the Northwestern United States as well. William E. Boeing had caught the flying bug... The story of Boeing is the story of some of the most memorable aircraft in American aviation history... 20020420. Boeing Company. Boeing airplanes. Airplanes. Aviation. Transportation. Yenne, Bill, 1949-