This is a Boeing ad from 1927 that was published today in the company's in-house, on-line newspaper, Boeing News Now. The company will be 100 years old in 2016 and there are a number of historical articles and photos being featured in BNN to ramp up to the event. The ad was placed in Aviation Magazine, the forerunner of today's Aviation Week and Space Technology.
Today marked the rollout of the newest in the 737 family, the 737 MAX. The MAX features a new engine, a refined wing design, a new type of winglet, and a whole host of non-apparent advancements and improvements.
I and my crew have been filming/video taping 737 operations all over the world for the last twenty-plus years. While the plane's range has gradually increased to the point where they are today used in regular service from the US west coast to Hawaii, across the Atlantic, and from Canada non-stop to the Caribbean, the plane is largely still a short to medium haul workhorse. When we're filming them being turned at various airports all over the world, two of the things that are often being loaded or unloaded are mail and packages.
We've also filmed at FedEx hubs in Paris, Memphis, etc. as well as heavy-lift air cargo operations all over the world with everything from Ferraris to racehorses to mammoth wind turbine blades being shipped.
To say the tag line at the bottom of that 1927 ad was prophetic is an understatement.
Of all the logos this company has had, the totem is my--and most people's-- favorite. While it was replaced by the company's name written in script in the 1940s, as late as the 1990s the totem was still used by Boeing Flight Test on their official jacket patches.
Today marked the rollout of the newest in the 737 family, the 737 MAX. The MAX features a new engine, a refined wing design, a new type of winglet, and a whole host of non-apparent advancements and improvements.
I and my crew have been filming/video taping 737 operations all over the world for the last twenty-plus years. While the plane's range has gradually increased to the point where they are today used in regular service from the US west coast to Hawaii, across the Atlantic, and from Canada non-stop to the Caribbean, the plane is largely still a short to medium haul workhorse. When we're filming them being turned at various airports all over the world, two of the things that are often being loaded or unloaded are mail and packages.
We've also filmed at FedEx hubs in Paris, Memphis, etc. as well as heavy-lift air cargo operations all over the world with everything from Ferraris to racehorses to mammoth wind turbine blades being shipped.
To say the tag line at the bottom of that 1927 ad was prophetic is an understatement.
Of all the logos this company has had, the totem is my--and most people's-- favorite. While it was replaced by the company's name written in script in the 1940s, as late as the 1990s the totem was still used by Boeing Flight Test on their official jacket patches.
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