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BOEING MODEL 40 MEETS THE 787 DREAMLINER
KUALA LUMPUR, May 18 (Bernama) -- As if finding a ghost among the cumulus, The Boeing Company’s latest addition to its lineage of pioneering commercial airplanes, the 787 Dreamliner, on May 8 caught up with its ancestor, a Boeing Model 40, in the skies over Mount Rainier south of Seattle, in the United States.
In a statement released here Tuesday, the aircraft maker said the fully
restored 1928 vintage Boeing Model 40 is owned and flown by Addison Pemberton of
Spokane, Washington.
It is also the only such flyable Model 40 in the world and the oldest flying
Boeing aircraft of any kind.
The Model 40 not only is notable as Boeing’s first production commercial
airplane, but its innovation and efficiency were the deciding factor in Boeing
Air Transport -- the airline subsidiary of the Boeing Airplane Company --
winning the lucrative Oakland-to-Chicago air mail route in 1927.
That event set William Boeing on a course that, within just two years, would
take him from managing his airplane company in Seattle to presiding over a vast
nationwide aviation empire called, United Aircraft and Transport Corporation
(UATC).
The 787 and Model 40, both the technological leaders of their time,
represent 80 years of Commercial Airplanes leadership, and clearly illustrates
the dramatic progress in airplane design.
During those 80 years, the people of Boeing have introduced innovative
technologies that have revolutionised flight and defined the design of all
commercial airplanes.
Taking a very short break from the 787 program’s intensive flight test
programme, Boeing Chief Test Pilot Mike Carriker expertly maneuvered the first
787, ZA001, into formation with the Model 40 at 12,000 feet.
This allowed photographer Ryan Pemberton, flying in an A36 Bonanza, to line
up for the striking photo.
"It really took a lot of work and planning," Carriker said.
"When I came alongside the Model 40 against those big puffy clouds, it was
unbelievable. Here was this 1928 biplane flying with a 2010 airplane, side by
side.
"How amazing the history of The Boeing Company is. It was really
exciting," he added.
-- BERNAMA
In a statement released here Tuesday, the aircraft maker said the fully
restored 1928 vintage Boeing Model 40 is owned and flown by Addison Pemberton of
Spokane, Washington.
It is also the only such flyable Model 40 in the world and the oldest flying
Boeing aircraft of any kind.
The Model 40 not only is notable as Boeing’s first production commercial
airplane, but its innovation and efficiency were the deciding factor in Boeing
Air Transport -- the airline subsidiary of the Boeing Airplane Company --
winning the lucrative Oakland-to-Chicago air mail route in 1927.
That event set William Boeing on a course that, within just two years, would
take him from managing his airplane company in Seattle to presiding over a vast
nationwide aviation empire called, United Aircraft and Transport Corporation
(UATC).
The 787 and Model 40, both the technological leaders of their time,
represent 80 years of Commercial Airplanes leadership, and clearly illustrates
the dramatic progress in airplane design.
During those 80 years, the people of Boeing have introduced innovative
technologies that have revolutionised flight and defined the design of all
commercial airplanes.
Taking a very short break from the 787 program’s intensive flight test
programme, Boeing Chief Test Pilot Mike Carriker expertly maneuvered the first
787, ZA001, into formation with the Model 40 at 12,000 feet.
This allowed photographer Ryan Pemberton, flying in an A36 Bonanza, to line
up for the striking photo.
"It really took a lot of work and planning," Carriker said.
"When I came alongside the Model 40 against those big puffy clouds, it was
unbelievable. Here was this 1928 biplane flying with a 2010 airplane, side by
side.
"How amazing the history of The Boeing Company is. It was really
exciting," he added.
-- BERNAMA
