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Marking the centennial of powered flight, Boeing Stores, Inc., and AGS
BookWorks have released “The Story of The Boeing Company,” the first
complete, full-color coffee-table book chronicling the history of one of
the world’s
leading aerospace companies.
The book details the stories of the companies that today make up The
Boeing Company - Boeing, Douglas, McDonnell, North American Aviation, and Hughes Space & Communications
- beginning with the birth of the
company in 1916, just 13 years after the Wright brothers’ first flight, and
continuing through nine decades of innovation in commercial, defense and space flight. Nearly 300 pages of exhaustively researched text and
rare archival photographs tell the remarkable saga of the people and products that built a company that is still exploring new frontiers.
Written by renowned aviation author Bill Yenne, “The Story of The Boeing
Company” contains many never-before-seen photographs from company archives. The story of Boeing mirrors the story of flight, and the company
has been responsible for a Who’s Who of aviation achievements, including the Boeing B-17, B-29, 707 and 747; the Douglas World Cruisers
and DC-3; the McDonnell F-4 Phantom II; the North American P-51; and the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft.
Yenne is a San Francisco-based author of more than three dozen books
on aviation and other historical topics. He has previously authored highly regarded histories of Boeing, North American and McDonnell Douglas.
“The Story of The Boeing Company” was produced and published by
AGS BookWorks, a division of American Graphic Systems, Inc., San Francisco, and is distributed exclusively by Boeing Stores, Inc. The 11- by
11-inch, 288-page hardbound book contains more than 300 photographs and
illustrations and retails for $45.00. |
