Boeing’s Many Products

The company builds a wide range of commercial airplanes, from the long – serving 747 airliner to the new 787 Dreamliner. Military aircraft include the C-17 Globemaster, the CH-47 Chinook twin-rotor transport helicopter, the AH – 64D Apache attack helicopter, and the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor V/STOL airplane.

The company has a huge program of fighter planes, including F/A-18 Hornet, F-15 Eagle, and F-22 Raptor fighters. In partnership with the Northrop Grumman Corporation, Boeing built the B-2 stealth

О The Boeing Company is headquartered at this building in Chicago, Illinois. Approximately 155,000 people in sixty-seven countries work for Boeing. More than half the company’s employees have college degrees.

bomber. Some of its famous vintage air­planes, such as the B-17 of World War II, are still flown at air shows, while the giant B-52 bomber remains in service with the U. S. Air Force more than fifty years after it first thundered into the skies in 1952.

Boeing’s space and missile develop­ment began with the Bomarc missile in the 1950s. Boeing built the first stage of the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo program as well as the Lunar Roving Vehicle used by Apollo astronauts for exploring the Moon. The company’s current satellite activities include the Sea Launch communications satellite system. Boeing is also actively involved in both the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station programs.