He scrambled to keep his workers busy making furniture, repairing Army planes, and building speedboats that would become popular with local bootleggers during Prohibition.Īt 30 years of age, Hubbard was Boeing's lead test pilot, and only the second man in Seattle to win a formal license from the Aero Club of America (the first was Terah Maroney, who introduced Bill Boeing to flight in 1915). The end of World War I had terminated Boeing's lucrative contracts for Navy trainers and flying boats. Boeing's little airplane company was less than three years old, and teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. The shorter man on his left seems to be suppressing a grin, and for good reason: Eddie Hubbard knew this short hop from Vancouver, B.C., would help to blaze the future of civil aviation. Boeing, holds the first bag of international air mail to be delivered to the United States. In one of the most famous photographs in Seattle history, two stoical pilots pose on a Lake Union dock in front of a spindly floatplane. This article was written by Walt Crowley and the staff and was published on April 5, 2001. The alleged monopoly was broken up in 1934, and a bitter William Boeing severed his ties with his namesake company. Beginning in 1927, Boeing rapidly assembled an aeronautical empire, United Aircraft and Transport, and established United Air Lines.
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The sixth essay in the Turning Points series prepared by for The Seattle Times focuses on the roles of federal air mail contracts and visionary pilot Eddie Hubbard in rescuing Boeing from bankruptcy following World War I.
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