Boeing donates B&W replica to Chinese aviation museum

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11330

Hmmmm.... New museum coming to Beijing!

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Boeing donates B&W replica to Chinese aviation museum

Boeing today donated a half-scale model of the B&W float plane, Boeing's first airplane, to the new Civil Aviation Museum of China in Beijing. The presentation took place at Boeing's exhibit at the 12th Aviation Expo/China 2007 as the expo got under way. The museum is under construction and expected to open in mid-2008, prior to the start of the Beijing Olympics. Part of China's celebration of the 2008 Olympics, the museum is intended to preserve and honor past and future contributions to civil aviation.

mike furline · **Joined:** Wed May 05, 2004 3:45 pm **Posts:** 2644

Apparently Boeing wants an airplane order from China.

UAL did the same thing to get the Beijing route for the Olympics. After just emerging from bankruptcy, UAL had a spare 53 million to donate to the Washington DC Zoo for the Panda bear exibit. It was then awarded the Beijing route.

Regards,
Mike

n5151ts · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:51 pm

as pow's all these years, I would consider us even.

Jerry O'Neill · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:41 pm

Well at least Boeing is donating a model in the hopes of helping an airplane purchase and not an entire aircraft like Pratt & Whitney has done twice in the past. Corsair and Connie gone for good from the skies and these shores!
Keep donating the models, Boeing, and let's hope P&W is watching!
Jerry

TAdan · **Posted:** Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:49 am

Chinese Civil aviation Museum? :roll:

So it will have that model in it and...?

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:00 am

Maybe restore some stuff like the P-61? :shock:

Ryan

mike furline · **Joined:** Wed May 05, 2004 3:45 pm **Posts:** 2644

n5151ts wrote:

as pow's all these years, I would consider us even.

POW's???

If you're referring to the Panda's, all Panda's world wide are owned by China. They decide what, when, where, why, etc. on anything about them.

My little jab at UAL was about the bankruptcy. No money to pay creditors, debt or employess, but had an exta 53mil to give away as soon as they exited bankruptcy.

Regards,
Mike

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