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Created by accident after a crash, it has climbed to some of the greatest heights, endured some of the dizziest falls of any concern in the business. Last week, true to form, after a long anxious glide Boeing was once more roaring upward with new gallons in the gas tank and prosperity at the joystick. In 1913\. rich, 32-year-old Yaleman William Edward Boeing tired of his family’s lumber business in Seattle, hired Glenn Martin to teach him to fly. Two years later, Bill Boeing smashed his pontoons in landing. Unable to get a new pair at once, he set out to make them himself, ended up by building a whole new plane in a one-room factory with 30 employes. It turned out so well that the Army asked for some like it. Somewhat to his own surprise, Bill Boeing agreed to make them. When the Armistice abruptly killed all military contracts, the little enterprise would have died too had not resourceful Bill Boeing set his men to work making furniture. In 1920 the ceiling lifted again when Boeing’s friend Eddie Hubbard contracted to fly the mail from Seattle to Victoria. Boeing got into non-military aviation by furnishing a flying boat which became “the first U. S. plane in international mail service.” Next year the company began to ride high as Boeing snagged an Army contract for 200 pursuit planes. Such jobs kept him thriving until 1927, when he again jumped into commercial aviation with what his competitors considered a suicidally low bid for the first Chicago-San Francisco air mail contract. Starting at scratch, he managed to get his planes in the air on time, made money, thus started what is now United Air Lines. This led to the formation of the first U. S. aviation trust—United Aircraft & Transport Corp.—which at once became the greatest power in the U. S. heavens. Meanwhile the Boeing plant continued to turn out top-notch planes, of which the finest was the famed 247-D—first twin-motored, low-wing, high-speed transport. Introduced in 1933, this ship outmoded the lumbering Fords and Fokkers, became standard with six U. S. lines, Deutsche Lufthansa and China’s Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. Then disaster struck. United Aircraft & Transport, one of the chief butts of the celebrated Roosevelt-Farley air mail crackdown, was forced to split up. Bitterly attacked in Senate hearings after he displayed paper profits of $51,000,000 from an original investment of $487,119, Founder Bill Boeing was forced out of his job as chairman of United, did not return to the Boeing factory. At present he is a partner in the potent New York Stock Exchange firm of E. A. Pierce & Co. To succeed him in Boeing, the stockholders, no one of whom now owns more than 10% of the stock, chose shy Clairmont Leroy Egtvedt, 44, who entered the plant in 1917 as a draftsman. The Boeing tailspin was not yet over. Following the 247-D came the slick Douglas DC-1, 2 and 3 which immediately became the darlings of most major U. S. airlines. Even United “went Douglas” eventually. But undaunted Claire Egtvedt kept plugging at the military contracts Boeing and its Kansas subsidiary, Stearman Aircraft Co., have never lacked. An engineer pure and simple, President Egtvedt kept Boeing plants small, while others, like Douglas, were overexpanding. He devoted all Boeing’s energies to creating a magnificent new bomber — the great 299, now called YB-17\. This four-motored monoplane is the most potent aerial fighting machine in the U. S.. has a 3,00-mi. range, 250-m. p. h. speed. Though a careless pilot crashed the first, the Army ordered 13 for $3,800,000\. Two have been delivered.\* This fat prize swelled the Boeing bank account, helped lift earnings from a 1935 loss of $333,800 to a profit of $131,700 for the first nine months of 1936\. More important, it made the air lines sit up & take notice. Pan American Airways was the first to act. Mindful of early Boeing flying boats and of the 299’s splendid wing design, P. A. A. last autumn gave Boeing a contract for six gigantic Clippers, each to have two decks, carry 60 passengers, weigh 41 tons, speed at 200 m.p.h. These vast flying boats are now well along at Boeing’s plant on the Duwamish Waterway, Seattle, the biggest seaplanes under construction in the U. S. Last week Boeing won an even juicier contract — to build the biggest land transports in the U. S. The “Big Five” U. S. airlines all want four-motored transports about twice the size of the standard Douglas DC-2\. Last spring they banded together to finance such a ship, gave Douglas the job (TIME, March 30). This has not progressed satisfactorily—Douglas is so overladen with other contracts that it may have to farm some out, the design turned out heavier than expected, and the six staffs of engineers have been unable to agree. Result: the DC-4 is still on paper. Meanwhile, Pan American and Transcontinental & Western Air have separately been investigating high-altitude flying. P.A.A. decided that 20,000 ft. was its optimum flight path; T.W.A. has plumped for an “overweather” route as high as 35,000 ft. Boeing also had been doing high-altitude research for the Army. This fact, plus the success of the four-motored 299, intrigued both P.A.A. and T.W.A. Last week the two noncompeting lines got together, gave Boeing contracts for eight four-motored transports to do the job originally scheduled for the DC-4\. The new planes (model 307) will look like the 299, weigh 21 tons, carry 32 or sleep 18 passengers, speed at about 250 m.p.h. with 75% of the power of four Wright “Cyclones.” As mail or experimental planes, they will have a range of 4,000 miles. Cost: $300,000 each. P.A.A. is to get two within the year, outfitted with mechanical cabin superchargers to fit them for high flying. Last week P.A.A. refused to divulge where it would use the two ships, but observers guessed that the two ships would start experimental high-altitude flights across the Atlantic. T.W.A. needs new planes at once, will not have superchargers installed until it sees how Pan American’s work. Meanwhile the planes will fly at normal 5,000-to-14,000-ft. heights on the transcontinental run. T.W.A. plans to put six in service early in 1938, has an option on 17 more. One statistic to show size: in addition to 32 passengers, the 307 will carry a cargo weighing more than the DC-3’s entire payload. On the Duwamish Waterway, booming Boeing last week began adding to its 2,000 employes, secretively kept figures to itself, but delightedly announced that its unfilled contracts totted up to the biggest sum in the company’s 21-year history. “Henceforth” remarked Claire Egtvedt, “Boeing will build only four-motored jobs.” \*Screened off in one corner of the Boeing plant is the growing skeleton of an even larger four-motored bomber, all details of which are still deeply secret. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6756592/transport-delight-on-the-duwamish/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6756592/transport-delight-on-the-duwamish/"},"headline":"Transport: Delight on the Duwamish","datePublished":"1937-03-01T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-28T16:12:17.272Z","description":"In the peculiarly up & down profession of aviation, Boeing Aircraft Co. has had a particularly up & down career. 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