William Boeing
By: Logan Seibers
Life of William
*William Boeing was born in 1881 and died in 1956. Boeing was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1881.
*He was a determined and smart student when he was younger.
*He attended Yale University in Connecticut after he graduated high school.
*As time went on he became the president of the Greenwood Lumber Company.
*He decided to quit this and peruse his dream of building planes and flying them.
*Boeing entered the field because he was interested in planes when he was younger. During his life he also won the Daniel Guggenheim award.
*In all William Boeing had a lot of interesting experiences.
Career
*William Boeing was famous for building planes for the military and founding the Boeing Company.
*He made a few important contributions in his life.
* A few of these include helping to create the United Aircraft and Transport Company, the Boeing Company, and helping make plans for military services.
*Boeing had many of his ow quotes. Two of them are "Let no new improvement in flying and flying equipment pass us" and " I think we could build a better one".
* On September 28th, 1956 William Boeing sadly died of a heart attack on his yacht. William Boeing is without a doubt an important person in aviation history.
Setbacks
*In the mid 1920's there was a law made that if you own a military company you can not run a mailing operation to.
*Mad with that law Will left Being Avionics and later died on his yacht.