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Boeing Airliners: Books - History, Types and Construction

Looking for a book on Boeing airliners? Discover here the best illustrated books on the history, types and construction of Boeing airliners.

Boeing Commerical Aircraft (Fact File)

With their pioneering designs, the Boeing Company has paved the way for the commercial aviation in its present form. In this Fact File edition, all civil aircraft are featured with all the relevant data and images.

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Author:Jo Beeck
Details:111 pages, 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.31 in (21.5 x 13.5 x 0.8 cm), paperback
Illustrations:7 b&w and 59 color photos
Publisher:Pen & Sword Books Ltd (GB, 2014)
Series:Fact File
ISBN:9781783831685
Book: Boeing Commerical Aircraft | Fact File

Boeing Commerical Aircraft

Language: English

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Last of the Flying Clippers - The Boeing B-314 Story

Finally, over 50 years after her last flight with Pan American Airways, the complete story of the famed, Boeing-built, B-314 flying Clipper ship has been written.
Author M.D. Klaas, historian and writer of Pan Am's early flying boat era during the 1930s and 1940s, has put together historical accounts of America's greatest - and the world's largest - commercial airplane of the 1930s and early 1940s.

It covers the multiple reasons for the plane's conception, stages of construction, testing, delivery flights, christenings, inaugural operations, established records, World War II special missions' histories, post-war services and the individual demise accounts surrounding each of the twelve models built specifically for Pan Am.
The history of sales to and operations with British Overseas Airways (BOAC) - now British Airways - is also included in in-depth coverage.

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Author:M. D. Klaas
Details:320 pages, 11.2 x 8.9 x 0.98 in (28.5 x 22.5 x 2.5 cm), hardback
Illustrations:370+ b&w and color photos
Publisher:Schiffer Publishing Ltd (USA, 2004)
ISBN:9780764305627
Book: Last of the Flying Clippers - The Boeing B-314 Story

Last of the Flying Clippers - The Boeing B-314 Story

Language: English

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Boeing Verkehrsflugzeuge - seit 1919 (Typenkompass)

With its groundbreaking designs, Boeing paved the way for commercial aviation in its current form. All civil aircraft since 1919 are presented briefly and concisely with all relevant data and images by Jochen K. Beeck.

Each type is presented with a photo, a historical description and a technical sheet.

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Author:Jochen K. Beeck
Details:112 pages, 8.1 x 5.5 in (20.5 x 14 cm), paperback
Illustrations:7 b&w and 59 color photos
Publisher:Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2009)
Series:Typenkompass
ISBN:9783613030022
Book: Boeing Verkehrsflugzeuge - seit 1919 | Typenkompass

Boeing Verkehrsflugzeuge - seit 1919

Language: German

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Book: Boeing 707 | Die Flugzeugstars

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Wolfgang Borgmann | German | hardback | 144 p. | 2019