The Boeing Model 247 is an early American airliner, and one of the first such aircraft to incorporate advances such as all-metal (anodized aluminum) semimonocoque construction, a fully cantilevered wing, and retractable landing gear. [3][4] Other advanced features included control surface trim tabs, an autopilot and de-icing boots for the wings ...

The Boeing 247 is considered to be the first modern airliner. Its sleek, low-wing, all-metal, retractable-gear, twin-engine design marked the beginning of a new era in air transport.

2023年2月8日 · Considered by many to be the first modern passenger airliner, the Boeing Model 247 helped commence the era of speed, safety, and comfort in commercial air travel.

2023年12月8日 · The 10-passenger Boeing 247, introduced in 1933, was the first "modern" all-metal airplane designed for passenger service. The twin engine, low-wing monoplane superseded the slow, noisy, and uncomfortable Ford Trimotor and Boeing 80A passenger planes then in …

2023年1月18日 · Although enshrined today as “the first modern airliner”—and it certainly looked the part—the 247 was actually too small and low-powered to make it as a money-making passenger carrier. It was the wrong airplane at the right time. That time was the early 1930s, when a series of events and innovations was transforming air transportation.

With its sleek, low-wing, all-metal construction; retractable landing gear; and supercharged, air-cooled engines, the Boeing 247 was 50 percent faster than its competitors. Its innovative design launched a new generation of commercial airliners, notably the Douglas DC-2.

1997年9月14日 · However, while huge lumbering biplanes were still in vogue, the Boeing company designed the Model 247 as a new ten-passenger aircraft of revolutionary concept. The all-metal airframe was well streamlined, with low monoplane wings, a smooth oval semimonocoque fuselage, neatly cowled twin engines, and an enclosed cockpit for the pilots.

The Boeing Model 247 was an early United States airliner, considered the first such aircraft to fully incorporate advances such as all-metal (anodized aluminum) semi-monocoque construction, a fully cantilevered wing and retractable landing gear.

2000年1月1日 · On February 8, 1933, the Boeing 247 takes flight from Boeing Field, ushering in a new era of air travel. The twin-engine, 10-passenger monoplane blazes new trails in aviation, but will quickly be overtaken by the competing Douglas Aircraft's DC-2, and never take off commercially the way Boeing hopes it will.

Film footage of a United Air Lines Boeing 247 flight over Seattle, Washington, circa 1930s. The footage opens with a short scene filmed inside the cabin of a 247, showing a Boeing flight attendant tending to passengers. The next scene features an aerial view of the city and a …