Aviation author and former Director of the Seattle Museum of Flight, Mike Lavelle, will give a presentation on “The First Modern Airliners—The Boeing Model 247 vs. The Douglas DC-3” at Heron Point on 7 PM, Tuesday, February 18.
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“This presentation will examine these two aircraft, aviation historians call “The World’s “First Modern Airliners”, the
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Boeing Model 247 and the Douglas DC-3. The political, engineering and operational requirements that drove the United States Aviation Industry to become world-wide leaders in the 1930s will be reviewed using these to aircraft as case studies. However, it is also a interesting contrast of how a creative but conservative design, such as the Boeing Model 247, can lead to limiting results, while innovative risk taking design can lead to flexibility, performance, and product growth, as experienced by Douglas Aircraft. This competition in the 1930s between these two American Aircraft Companies would be the first of many commercial aircraft market battles that would last into the Jet Age and their merger in 1997,” Lavelle says.
The talk is open to the public, and free. Heron Point is located at 501 East Campus Avenue, Chestertown. For more information call 410-778-7300.
A Director for seven years at the Seattle Museum of Flight, Mike is an aviation author and historian, who is also a Fellow Royal Aeronautical Society of Great Britain. Mike spent his over 40 plus years in the aviation/aerospace industry. Eleven of those years were with the Cessna Aircraft Company of Wichita Kansas followed by 24 years with The Boeing Company of Seattle, WA.
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