Across
- 1. Pan Am, the leading US airline, unveils the Boeing 707 in the year ________. It soon became the first commercially successful jet airliner.
- 2. In the year ________ Boeing Dreamliner completes its first commercial flight from Japan to Hong Kong.
- 4. In the year ________ Boeing is split into United Technologies, United Airlines and Boeing.
- 5. In the year ________ Boeing's Model C wooden seaplanes, were sold to the US Navy for World War I.
- 6. In the year ________ Chicago is picked as new corporate headquarters for Boeing.
- 8. In the year ________, jet-powered B-52 Stratofortress is US military's symbol of power in the Cold War.
- 9. Boeing is added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the year________.
- 10. In the year ________ Boeing Air Transport was created to transport mail with its Model 40 biplanes.
- 11. The giant "Flying Fortress" bomber is delivered to the US Army Air Corps in the year __________.
Down
- 1. In the year ________, Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet is launched which dominates international air travel and cargo over the next decades.
- 3. Boeing introduces the CH-47 Chinook helicopter in the year ______, for the troop movement and battlefield resupply for Vietnam War.
- 4. The British Royal Air Force takes delivery of B-17s in the year ________ which gave them the first feel of combat.
- 5. In which year was Boeing awarded to build the biggest stage of the Saturn V, the S-IC first stage?
- 7. In the year ________ Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas for $13.3 billion.
- 8. One of the major accident of two 747s collision on the runway of the Canary Islands in the year ________ led to upgrades in international safety regulations.
