The Boeing company is the worlds largest aerospace company and the foremost manufacturer of commercial and military aircraft vehicles and missiles. The company started in 1916 with William E. Boeing, a timber merchant and a US Navy officer Conrad Westervelt developed a seaplane called the B&W under the name Aero Products Company, renamed to the Boeing Airplane Company the following year. Then, in 1928 the company started to air mail and was renamed United Aircraft and Transportation Corporation in 1929. However, in 1931 the US antitrust legislation declared the company as a Monopoly and created three companies, Boeing Airplane Company, United Aircraft Co. now United Technologies Co. and United Airlines. The Company built several aircraft …show more content…
Boeing was very successful with their military aircraft but lagged behind their competition for the commercial airplanes. To catch up with their competitors in the Commercial sector of the company. The race between Boeing, Douglas, and Lockheed, the three big competitors in American aviation were all racing for a jet-powered airliner that can cross the Atlantic. Boeing developed the first one, originally as a plane for the United States Air Force, the 707. The model then went to commercial services in 1958 with the first transatlantic route on Pan Am was quicker and smoother than other airplanes on the market. Boeing continues to use the 7x7 naming system for their commercial planes. Boeing then went into a the Helicopter business when the company acquired Vertol Corporation in 1960. Vertol at the time was the largest Helicopter manufacture in the world and was working on SAMs for the US Armed Forces at the time they were bought out by Boeing. Since the 1960s, Boeing worked with NASA making Lunar Orbiters, Mariner 10 space probe, and Inertial Upper Stage boosters for the Space Shuttle and for the Titan SAMs. In 1993 Boeing was then selected by NASA as the prime contractors for the