Boeing responded by developing the Boeing 247 for United Airlines. TWA required a similar aircraft and asked airplane makers to design them a three-engined, 12-seat aircraft of all metal construction.

It was in the early 1900s when we finally leaped to commercial air travel, with one of the first known commercial planes being the Boeing 247 in 1933, before other planes like the Douglas DC-8 ...

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