Download or read book Boeing Plane-Makers of Distinction written by Peter Dancey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of Boeing 'Giants of the jet age'. It looks at the company and its secrets of success following the philosophy of its founder William Boeing. Its miraculous recovery on more than one occassion from bankruptcy. Its airplanes, WW I biplane trainers and fighters, piston and jet-engined airliners, mergers and take-overs. The Raptor, and Dreaamliner, military and civil airplanes for the twenty-first century