Boeing 737

by Malcolm L. Hill

Charts the rise of Boeing's best-selling product, examing the interwoven history of the aircraft company and its airline customers and how they came to the 737. Its continued development, taking on the new technogical advances available and Boeing's reaction to a revived European threat is studied. The aircraft's progress through turbulent political and commercial times is followed, as is the 737's own operational history and its own undoubted influence in the constantly changing airliner industry of the last quarter of the twentieth century and beyond.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published May 17, 2002

Reviews

[Robert Hepple · Rating 4 out of 5]

Published in 2002, 'Boeing 737' is one of many in the popular 'Crowood Aviation Series' of books on famous aircraft types. The Boeing 737 is the subject here, with a very optimistic view of the use of this airliner since it first appeared in the 1960s, supported by a colossal number of excellent photos. The downside is that it demonstrates the danger of releasing a book on aircraft that is in production at the time of print with likely future development of the type - I doubt that the optimistic outlook of the writer would survive the Boeing 737's problems of recent years. Nevertheless, and enjoyable book with a great emphasis on the early generation 'Baby Boeing' variants.

[Wayne · Rating 3 out of 5]

a little thin