Company History and OverviewTo understand the competition between Boeing and Airbus today, it is crucial to understand their history. Boeing commercial airliners, military aircraft and the nation's largest NASA. entrepreneur. Boeing has five divisions: Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), the civil and commercial airliner division; Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS), the military and space division; Boeing Capital Corporation, a global provider of financing solutions; the Shared Services Group, which provides a wide range of services to Boeing worldwide; and Boeing Engineering, Operations & Technology, which helps develop, acquire, apply and protect innovative technologies and processes. Among the five divisions, BCA and BDS are Boeing's main business divisions, while the remaining three divisions are characterized as the support units of its two main divisions http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a320family/ http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a320family/ (The Boeing Company, 2014). William E. Boeing founded Boeing on July 15, 1916 as Pacific Aero Products Company (The Boeing Company, 2014) . The first twin-float seaplane designed “entirely by Boeing” was the Model C, which is also the company's basis (The Boeing Company, 2014). Boeing's first commercial airplane was the Model 40A, arriving in 1927 and used to deliver mail for the United States Postal Service (The Boeing Company, 2014). Aircraft development progressed slowly until World War I (Cook, 2008). And World War II was the revolutionary period of aviation technology (Rogers, 2006). 707 was Boeing's first commercial jet airline, entering service on December 20, 1957. (The Boeing Com...... middle of paper ....... Orders and Deliveries: Year's Deliveries in current through March 2014. Retrieved April 3, 2014 from http://active.boeing.com/commercial/orders/index.cfmThe Boeing Company (2014, February 28, Orders and Deliveries: Current Year Deliveries through 'in March 2014. Accessed April 3, 2014). March 2014. Retrieved April 3, 2014). March 2014. Accessed April 3, 2014).=20000