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William Boeing


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There isn’t much to that machine of Maroney’s. I think we could build a better one.

William Boeing

Who had studied engineering at Yale University, and was a welthy timber heir who also owned a shipyard, to his friend Conrad Westervilt, after they flew in a barnstormers seaplane at the 1914 Fourth of July fair on Seattle’s Lake Washington. Conrad replied,

“Of course we could. Would you like me to make some inquires?”

This is the origin story of the Boeing Company. Told for example in Boeing magazine, a publication of the Boeing Public Relations Office, July 1956. Condensed from the first chapter of Harold Mansfield 1956 book Vision: A Saga of the Sky.

We Could Build A Better One article

I think we can build a better plane.

William Boeing

The Boeing Company, later a company's motto, 1914. .


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