TODAY AND TOMORROW

[Music] [Music] this is the story of airplane [Music] of guided missiles [Music] of space theater of over 95,000 people people of every conceivable Talent together they make up the largest aerospace company in the world The Boeing Company [Music] William Boeing founded the company in 1916 when he built his first to stick and wire airplane even while these planes were in production Boeing and his people were looking for better ways to manufacture aircraft giving the young company the faces of capability it has never lost a pioneer in a new industry Boeing foresaw the great potential of the airplane building trainers and flying boats for the United States during World War one at international mail planes in the early 1920s in 1948 Boeing introduced the first airline stewardesses to commercial air travelers on its model 80 a tri-motor by plain metal replaced fabric and wood when the company was producing the b9 in the early 1930s its planners were developing the p26 military pursuit the 247 commercial passenger and Mail plane and they renowned Boeing 314 from its infancy the company had two phases one for production one for thinking and dreaming about the future products and processes change and change again but the historic principle survives build for tomorrow [Music] plan for the day after tomorrow for example even before the b-17 was helping to win the war in Europe during the 1940s company engineers were developing a bomber with greater range and striking power the b-29 almost 4,000 b-29s dropped hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs on Asian targets and the two final missions atomic drops helped bring a sudden end to the war Boeing's first post-war commercial transport was the 72 ton double deck Strato Cruiser a spacious and luxurious airliner but even as it was demonstrating how pleasant peacetime air travel could be the company was helping to preserve the hard-won peace fighting and building the sea 97 military transport at the KC 97 tanker 2 team with a b-50 superfortress as America's most effective aerial arm of defense in the late forties then the b-47 first of the swept wing jet bombers an Air Force medium-range plane capable of carrying nuclear devices to any target the American paucity of maintaining a strong deterrent force to prevent war while working for a universal peace brought about the b-52 the Strategic Air commands 8 jet frontline of Defense giving the u.s. round-the-clock round-the-world protection meanwhile Boeing continued to spend its time and money meeting the changing nature of competition in the commercial market designing and building from company funds the 16 million dollar 707 prototype a single airplane that in one giant step brought the jet age to civilian travelers and air cargo customers all over the world and the kc-135 jet tanker transport the US Air Force teammate of the world circling b-52 the c-130 five of the military air transport service a troop carrier able to reach any spot on earth within a few hours even while the 707 was going through initial testing the transport division was planning the plane for intermediate ranges the 720 and even before the 720 was in production the company was developing the 727 short-range jetliner America's first free jet airliner [Music] increasing needs for civilian portal-to-portal service plus government and military requirements led bowing into helicopter manufacture in the 60s boeing vertol 107's went into commercial service in the United States in Japan Canadian Swedish in Thailand government soon ordered the helicopter meanwhile other virtuals were fighting the jungle war in Vietnam US Armed Forces chose the 107 and the largest Chinook as assault and rescue carriers the versatile verts all is at home on land on the sea or in the air since the end of World War two Boeing has been engaged in a continuing study of supersonic flight the then secret Brown to where pilotless aircraft program of the late 40s paid off with the development of the bomarc supersonic ground aware missile of the late 50s and early 60s [Music] field installation and testing techniques employed in the bull mark program proved to be invaluable in developing Minuteman America's most successful intercontinental ballistic missile in a hole 85 feet deep and 12 feet in diameter the missile stands upright below the surface of the ground dubbed ace-in-the-hole Minuteman ICBMs are deployed in underground silos hidden push-button Arsenal's of retaliation ready and waiting highly skilled crews of a Strategic Air Command are on 24-hour alert at Minuteman bases as weapon system integrator for the Air Force program Boeing assembles Minuteman missiles at Hill Air Force Base near Ogden Utah late in 1962 less than two years after the first test flight of a Minuteman the missile became operational in central Montana at Malmstrom Air Force Base other minute mat wings are located in the plane surround the Grand Forks and Minot North Dakota at the foot of Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills of South Dakota beneath a rolling ridges of Missouri and in the ranch land around at Cheyenne Wyoming [Music] testing of the 15,000 mile an hour weapon is conducted at Cape Canaveral Florida Boeing's aerospace division assistant training air force crews and launching missiles down the pacific missile range from Vandenberg Air Force Base California to the moon and beyond it Y is the destination for the three-man crew to be lifted by the advanced Saturn 5 largest rocket now being developed in the United States for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Boeing now is building the s1c first stage booster manufacturing center dat famous shoe operations plant New Orleans and other facilities at Huntsville Alabama Seattle and Wichita Kansas whatcha tar provides a reservoir of design engineering and production capabilities for everything from tooling the major military programs in water as well as in spades boeing's tradition of flights has its application the design and manufacture of unique hydrofoils to flight as an airplane flies through air for the US Navy there is the PCH pipe boy a submarine chaser able to track down submarines at flights or loiter over them as need be in a leapfrog technique to match the best that underwater craft can do and the htc an experimental double hull craft designed to test varying hydrofoil shapes at supercavitating speeds perhaps 100 knots seeking new knowledge in the field the company has constructed the hydrofoil boat propelled by a water jet the little squirt and a lobster shaped hydroplane to test hydrofoil shapes such are the shapes of diversification development and production of gas turbine engines below 800 shaft horsepower is the major business of the company's industrial products division Boeing is producing turboshaft engines for the US Navy's - drone anti-submarine helicopter as well as powering new aircraft design major application and the industrial Field is the Boeing turbo starter a mobile gas turbine driven compressor ground support package which provides thousands of jet liner starts each week around the world [Music] it takes many different things to make a company successful it is said that competition breeds excellence over the years blowing has not only met the challenge of its competition but more important has set its own pace in scientific and technological progress by investing the majority of its profits back into new facilities and advanced research behind all the products are the people the increased emphasis on advanced technology is reflected in the changing employment patterns of the aerospace industry rising numbers of the industry's workforce are college graduates often those with advanced degrees the company encourages its people to broaden their educational and vocational horizons by participating in Boeing sponsored graduate study and all-power training programs all of this adds up to that indefinable something called management capability has its money faces the men behind the executive desks may look alike talk a lie but even to select their only true measure the only way to identify really good management is by the things they manage to accomplish at Boeing management has an impressive batting average from primitive airplanes of 1916 to the world's largest aerospace company of the sixties to accomplish so much in such a relatively small span of years requires the ultimate in planning ahead of every dollar of its profits during the past decade for example the company has invested 70 cents in its future what does the boy playing in the sand have to do with all this well in many way or Sir Isaac Newton who formulated and proved the law of gravity once said it I liken myself to a little boy playing by the seashore digging a small hole in the sand watching a little water trickled into it from the sea with a vast ocean of knowledge yet to be explored the late William Boeing echoed these sentiments two centuries later when he said I have tried to make the men around me feel as I do that we are embarked as pioneers upon a new science and industry in which our problems are so new and unusual that it behooves no one to dismiss any novel idea with the statement that it can't be done our job is to keep everlastingly at research and experiment to adapt our laboratory results and those of other laboratories to production as soon as possible to let no improvement in flying and flying equipment pass us by big and productive it is but this is a company managers scientists engineers workmen planning just beginning to explore the vast ocean of knowledge that exploration more than anything it made yesterday is this company's business that exploration is boy today and tomorrow [Music]