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Text from an advertisement in the November, 1945 issue of Flying magazine. TRAIL-BLAZER FOR PEACETIME FLIGHT The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is something more than the weapon that helped win the war against Japan. It embodies principles that will revolutionize air transport now that victory is won. Not only have the great Boeing planes in which you may soon travel already been designed... a military version of the first true super-transport of the future- the Boeing Stratocruiser- has broken all records for transcontinental flight, with a coast-to-coast average speed of 383 mph (616 kmh)! Boeing has had more experience in the design and building of four-engine aircraft than any other manufacturer in the world. Like the Superfortress, the new Stratocruiser has four engines- and even greater horsepower will be added. Like the B-29, it has the extraordinarily efficient Boeing wing, giving it huge carrying capacity- plus higher performance and greater economy in operation than any other transport. Again, like the Superfortress, the Stratocruiser benefits from Boeing leadership in stratosphere research and the production of aircraft for high-level, over-weather operation. It has improved pressurized cabins- plus new refinements in sound-proofing and air-conditioning. It has all the structural and aerodynamic advances of the last three years, proved in war on Boeing-built aircraft- all the new features contributing to safe navigation, ease of control and dependable performance- plus passenger comfort never before imagined. It expresses, as no other commercial airplane has yet done, man's growing understanding of the laws of flight. Now that peace is here, Boeing principles of research, design, engineering and manufacture will bring you the Stratocruiser and other advances in air transport... and you may know of any airplane- if it's "Built by Boeing" it's built to lead. BOEING - DESIGNERS OF THE B-29 SUPERFORTRESS - THE FLYING FORTRESS - THE NEW STRATOCRUISER - THE KAYDET TRAINER - THE STRATOLINER - PAN AMERICAN CLIPPERS