William M. Allen, a retired Boeing Co. chairman who helped usher in the era of commercial jet air travel after World War II, died at his home Tuesday after a prolonged illness. He was 85. Mr.

The Incredibles was the nickname Boeing President William Allen gave his team of 50,000 mechanics, engineers and administrators tasked with designing and building the 747 in just 28 months.

Early Boeing products had names like the Model 40, Model 80, Model 247, ... Boeing President William Allen set about on an ambitious restructuring of the company, ...

There were moments when it looked like the program would collapse under its own weight. But Boeing’s leadership, especially then-President William Allen and engineer Joe Sutter (who led the 747 ...

Boeing CEO William M. “Bill” Allen spoke at the rollout in Renton. He pointed out how exactly 10 years to the day earlier, the 5000th iconic B-17 bomber had rolled off a wartime Boeing ...

A merican planemaker Boeing has been a leading manufacturer of jet-powered commercial aircraft since the middle of the 20th century. While the US-based firm was not the first to p ...

When William Allen, Boeing’s president offered American Airlines an extra half-inch in width over the DC-8, he won an order for fifty 707s. From that moment, the sales success of the Boeing was ...

Boeing's buttoned-down CEO William Allen rolled the dice in the mid-1950s, betting the company on a future of passenger jet travel, and investing $20 million on a plane that would be the prototype ...

At $142,807,547.16 with today's inflation, Boeing president William Allen is said to have bet the company on the jet's success, putting up nearly the entire profit that Boeing had earned since the ...

3 weeks after Air India Boeing 787 crash, industry waiting for answers ; ... The first of the new planes was unveiled by Boeing president William Allen at the dedication of the airport.