Boeing Aircraft Models
Boeing’s best-known narrowbody family began commercial service in 1968.
What is the 737?
The company that became Boeing was founded in this Pacific Northwest city.
Seattle
This dimensionless quantity compares an aircraft’s speed with the local speed of sound.
What is Mach number?
Boeing’s first production airplane was this two-seat seaplane, built for the U.S. Navy.
What is the B&W seaplane?
This jumbo jet introduced a distinctive hump behind the cockpit and became known as the “Queen of the Skies.”
747
This was the year William Boeing founded Pacific Aero Products.
What is 1916?
This angle is measured between an airfoil’s chord line and the oncoming airflow.
What is angle of attack?
This Boeing bomber introduced a pressurized crew compartment and a distinctive nose section in World War II.
What is the B-29 Superfortress?
Boeing marketed this long-range, composite-bodied airliner as the Dreamliner.
787
Boeing built this luxurious transoceanic flying boat, whose name evokes a famous ocean liner.
What is the 314 Clipper?
This aerodynamic phenomenon occurs when airflow separates from a wing after its critical angle is exceeded.
What is a stall?
Boeing’s first jet transport prototype was nicknamed this, after its internal project designation.
What is the Dash 80?
This twin-engine widebody family includes the -200, -300, and -300ER variants.
777
Boeing established this air transport company in 1927, initially to carry mail.
What is Boeing Air Transport?
This pressure altitude is corrected for nonstandard temperature to estimate an aircraft’s true height above mean sea level.
What is density altitude?
This Boeing aircraft became the first commercial airliner to use a fly-by-wire flight control system.
What is the 777?
This early Boeing jetliner helped usher in the age of U.S. commercial jet travel.
707
Boeing combined with this aerospace company in a 1997 merger.
What is McDonnell Douglas?
This principle explains why swept wings tend to experience a spanwise flow of air toward their tips.
What is the pressure-gradient effect, or spanwise flow?
Boeing’s 747 introduced this upper-deck feature, originally designed in part to allow a nose-loading cargo version.
What is the raised forward upper deck?