Boeing
The Boeing Company is an aircraft manufacturer headquartered in Chicago,
Illinois with production facilities near Seattle. The company began as B &
W, founded by William Boeing on July 15, 1916 as Pacific Aero Products but
the company changed its name to the Boeing Airplane Company in 1917.
Boeing's many varieties of aircraft are listed here:
Commercial aircraft Fighters and Bombers
* Boeing 707 (a variant was * B-17 Flying Fortress
the model 720) * AV-8 Harrier II
* Boeing 717 (evolved from * B-1 Lancer
the Douglas DC-9 series) * B-2 Spirit
* Boeing 727 * B-52 Stratofortress
* Boeing 737 * F-4 Phantom II
* Boeing 747 * F-15 Eagle
* Boeing 757 * F/A-18 Hornet see also Blue Angels
* Boeing 767 aerobatic team
* Boeing 777 * F/A-18EF Super Hornet
* Boeing 7E7 * F/A-22 Raptor
* MD-11
* Boeing Business Jet (a
corporate version of a
model 737)
* Boeing 2707 (the proposed
American SST, never
completed)
Airlift and Tankers Surveillance and Other Military
* 767 Tanker-Transport * Airborne Laser
* Aerial Refueling Tanker * Airborne Warning And Control
* C-17 Globemaster III System (AWACS)
* C-32A Executive Transport * E-3 Sentry often called the AWACS,
* C-40A Navy Airlift Aircraft although strictly speaking that
* KC-10 Extender term is a generic one
* KC-135 Stratotanker * E-4B Advanced Airborne Command
* VC-25A "Air Force One" Post
* E-6 TACAMO (Take Charge and Move
Out)
* T-43 Cargo Trainer
* T-45 Training System
* Wedgetail 737-700 AEW
* X-36 Tailless Agility Research
Aircraft
Boeing is also a major aerospace manufacturer. Some of its notable
space-related products are listed here:
Propulsion and Payload Delivery
Systems Satellites
* Crew Return Vehicle * Adv. Research and Global
* Delta rocket Observation Satellite
* Inertial Upper Stage * GPS Satellites
* International Space * Integrated Solar Upper Stage
Station * Kinetic Energy Anti-Satellite
* MAGLEV Weapon System
* Sea Launch * XSS Micro-satellite
* Solar Orbit Transfer
Vehicle
* Space Shuttle
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