From Flying Boats to Jumbo Jets: 100 Years of Commercial Flight

1916: A month after flying the B&W, an experimental sea plane, timber mogul William Boeing, shown here in 1934, and U.S. Navy engineer Conrad Westerveldt found the Pacific Aero Products Co. in Seattle. The company, eventually renamed the Boeing Airplane Co., would go on to become the world’s largest producer of commercial aircraft, designing dozens of airliners, including the Boeing 707, the first commercially successful jetliner. Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images

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