Stratoliner Engine - National Air and Space Museum Wood Print

One of four Wright GR-1820-G102A radial engines on the last surviving Boeing 307 Stratoliner, located at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

The Boeing 307 Stratoliner was based on the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and was the first airliner with a pressurized fuselage. It first flew in 1938 and could carry 33 passengers at 20,000 feet, an altitude that allowed the Stratoliner to fly above most bad weather. Ten were built, the prototype, eight that went to TWA and Pan American Airways, and a modified version owned by Howard Hughes.

The Boeing Company is an American aerospace company. It began in 1910 when William E. Boeing purchased a shipyard in Seattle, Washington, which became his first airplane factory. He incorporated in 1916 as "Pacific Aero Products Co." and it became the "Boeing Airplane Company" in 1917. After the 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas they began operating under the name "The Boeing Company." Aside from commercial and m...

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