In the past, Boeing’s business plan primarily focused on government contracts, but now their current focus is on selling passenger planes to airlines. In the beginning Boeing focused receiving government contracts. One example is when, “The enterprise [Boeing] built ‘flying boats’ for the Navy during World War 1 and in the 1920s and ‘30s it successfully sold its trainers, pursuit planes, observation craft, torpedo planes, and patrol bombers to the U.S. military” (Weiss and Amir). The company developed the planes when Westervelt was relocated to the East Coast in preparation for World War I and sent a letter to Bill Boeing asking for training planes for the US Navy. After the war, when military contracts stopped, the company “became profitable,
