Cosmic Muffin started out as a Boeing 307 Stratoliner, one of the 10 units ... Photo: Stark Weather Design for PlaneBoats.com In 1964, now the property of a Florida company, the aircraft sustained ...

The basic design for the plane was based on the B-17, but what set the Stratoliner apart from Boeing’s famous Flying ... As I looked out the front window, there was this plane coming at us ...

The Boeing 307 Stratoliner ... the Stratoliner’s cockpit had room for a flight crew of five: pilot, copilot, flight engineer, radio operator, and navigator. The overhead window between the ...

But in 1938, Boeing ... the model 307 Stratoliner, the first commercial airplane to offer a pressurized cabin. Boeing based the Stratoliner off of its earlier B-17 heavy bomber design from 1935.