The Boeing Company
The Boeing company is the biggest aerospace company in the world. William Boeing was the foulder of company. He was born on Oct. 1. In 1881 in Detroit in Michigan. The first airplane of Boeing was made in autumn of 1915 Boeing is the biggest U.S. exporter. Total company revenues for year 2000 is more then 51 billions $. Boeing is the world leader in commerciaj flight for more than 40 years. The main commercial products consist of the 737, 747, 757, 767, and 777 families of jetliners and the Boeing Bussiness Jet. The company has more than 11 000 commercial jetliners in service worldwide. The company has been the world leader in development and production of military-aircrafts and defence-systems products and programs. Boeing also built the Space Shuttle for NASA and is teamed with partners from Russia, Ukraine and Norway. The most popular plane from Boeing is 747 Jumbo Jet. From its first flight in 1969, the 747 has been an airplane of superlatives : It was bigger, flew faster and carried more people than any other commercial airplane. Today, that’s still true. The latest model of 747-400 can fly 416 to 524 passengers about 8 400 miles and is available in four models.
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