Seattle's Commercial Aviation: 1908-1941 (Images of Aviation) - Tapa blanda

Title: New Book About Early Seattle Aviation History

Author: Staff Writer

Publisher: Cascade Flyers

Date: 12/22/09

This new book is out. The new Release from the Seattle Times: "Seattle's Commercial Aviation, 1908-1941" by Ed Davies and Steve Ellis, foreword by Bill Boeing Jr. (Arcadia, $21.99). A photo-essay survey of commercial aviation's early days in Seattle, including the founding of The Boeing Co. in 1916. Davies and Ellis discuss the book, 2 p.m. Dec. 26, Museum of Flight, 9404 East Marginal Way S., Seattle; free (206-764-5720 or www.museumofflight.org).

Interested in aviation as early as 1910, William Boeing waited until 1914 for his first airplane ride. In 1916, he founded the airplane company that put Seattle on the aviation map. Before Boeing, Seattle featured aircraft builders like Eugene Romano, G. T. Takasou, Tom Hamilton, and Herb Munter. Boeing emerged during World War I and, by the beginning of World War II, had become a world leader. In those years, lesser known individuals like Eddie Hubbard, Percy Barnes, Vern Gorst, the Becvar brothers, Elliott Merrill, Jim Galvin, and Lana Kurtzer influenced commercial aviation around Seattle. Drawing on photographs from around the area, Seattle's Commercial Aviation: 1908-1941 illustrates the early days beginning with dirigible flights, recognizes the arrival of commercial airmail and the airlines, salutes the local operators, and marks Seattle's emergence as the aviation gateway to Alaska.