Boeing
Published on 4. July 2016
59 pages
978-1-4396-5665-5 (ISBN)
Description
In 1916, an airplane company was established in the previous Heath shipyard along the Duwamish River, situated a short distance south of Seattle's Elliott Bay. Work on the first two airplanes was already well underway as the articles of incorporation for Pacific Aero Products Company established three Seattle residents as the principals, William E. Boeing, James Foley, and Edgar Gott. The company's diverse crew included men with woodworking skills, women with expertise in sewing fabric, and an American-educated Chinese aeronautical engineer named Wong Tsu. A century later, Boeing is synonymous with commercial aviation, military products, and feats in space.
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John Fredrickson retired as a senior manager of the Boeing Company in 2011 after 36 years of service. He has 21 years of combined reserve and active-duty military service with the US Air Force. He first encountered Boeing products at Minot Air Force Base in 1971. His work experience on B-52 and KC-135 aircraft continued at U-Tapao Airfield in Thailand during the Vietnam War. That background qualified him for a job at Boeing Flight Test in Seattle starting in 1975, where he worked on the AWACS and YC-14 programs before undertaking a more traditional career in backroom accounting. Fredrickson is the author of Kansas City B-25 Factory and Warbird Factory.
