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The
Boeing 80
, sometimes called the
Boeing Model 80
or just the
Model 80
, was an American
airliner
. It was a
biplane
with three engines. The Boeing 80 was built by the Boeing
Airplane
Company. It could carry
mail
and passengers.
Boeing Air Transport was started on February 17, 1927 by
William Boeing
. On July 1, 1927, planes from Boeing Air Transport started flying mail from
San Francisco
to
Chicago
.
[2]
At first, the
Boeing Model 40A
was used for this.
Boeing decided to make a plane to carry passengers. In 1928 it designed the Model 80.
[3]
The Boeing 80 could carry 12 people.
[4]
[5]
The pilots sat in a cockpit in front of the passengers.
The first Boeing 80 took off on July 27, 1928.
[4]
[5]
Three more Boeing 80s were made before Boeing started to make the Boeing 80A. The Boeing 80A was longer and it could carry 18 people. It also had better engines. It first took off on July 18, 1929.
[6]
The Boeing 80 first flew for Boeing Air Transport on September 20, 1928.
[5]
It soon turned out to be successful.
[4]
The Boeing 80A started being used in September 1929.
[7]
In May 1930, Boeing Air Transport hired eight
female
flight attendants
. They first flew on May 15.
[8]
The Boeing 80 and 80A were used until the
Boeing 247
replaced them in 1934.
[7]
- Model 80
- first type of Boeing 80 (four of these were made)
- Model 80A
- more
aerodynamic
and had new engines (10 of these were made)
-
United States
One Boeing 80A was found in a dump at
Anchorage Airport
in 1960. It was fixed up and it is now in the
Museum of Flight
in
Seattle
.
[7]
[11]
Data from
Boeing Aircraft since 1916
General characteristics
Performance
- Notes
- ↑
Bowers 1989, p. 140.
- ↑
Davies
Air Enthusiast
January/February 2007, pp. 66-67.
- ↑
Bowers 1989, p. 136.
- ↑
4.0
4.1
4.2
Taylor 1983, p. 72.
- ↑
5.0
5.1
5.2
5.3
Davies
Air Enthusiast
January/February 2007, p. 71.
- ↑
Davies
Air Enthusiast
March/April 2007, p. 62.
- ↑
7.0
7.1
7.2
Taylor 1983, p.73.
- ↑
Davies
Air Enthusiast
March/April 2007, p. 67.
- ↑
9.0
9.1
9.2
9.3
9.4
Cohen, Stan. "Chapter 4."
Flying Beats Work: The Story of Reeve Aleutian Airways.
Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1988.
ISBN
0-933126-98-0
.
- ↑
"Flying the Boeing Model 80."
Internet Modeler.
Retrieved: September 20, 2010.
- ↑
"Boeing 80A-1"
.
The Museum of Flight
. Retrieved: July 4, 2009.
- ↑
Taylor 1983, p. 70.
- Bibliography
- Bowers, Peter M.
Boeing Aircraft since 1916
. London: Putnam, 1989.
ISBN
0-85177-804-6
.
- Davies, Ed. "Boeing's Airline: The Life and Times of Boeing Air Transport, Part One".
Air Enthusiast
, No. 127, January/February 2007, pp. 64?74. Stamford, UK:Key Publishing.
- Davies, Ed. "Boeing's Airline: The Life and Times of Boeing Air Transport, Part Two".
Air Enthusiast
, No. 128, March/April 2007. Stamford, UK: Key Publishing. pp. 62?73.
- Taylor, H.A. "When Boeing Flew the Mails".
Air Enthusiast
, Twenty-two, August?November 1983, pp. 64?74. Bromley, UK: Pilot Press.
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