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Fun fact: United Airlines, Pratt and Whitney, and Boeing used to all be the same company. They were forced to break up after the Air Mail Scandal: https://en.w
by xxpor 6y ago
Fun fact: United Airlines, Pratt and Whitney, and Boeing used to all be the same company. They were forced to break up after the Air Mail Scandal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Mail_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Mail_scandal
United Technologies is the result of the manufacturing interests east of the Mississippi and Boeing got everything west.
- kayfox 6y agoIndeed, 88 years ago Boeing made an agreement with the US government not to make certain aircraft parts (engines mostly) and not to operate any airlines. Those ugly freighters they built for the 787? Flown by Atlas Air.