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, once owned by Haitian dictator Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, suffered only “secondary structural damage” when Boeing pilots splashed down near Seattle’s port ...

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.