Given the question: Facts:   - employer: boeing company    - birth name: boise , idaho    - death date: 1 july 1986      - birth date: 26 august 1910    - name: edward curtis wells    - death place: bellevue , washington   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of edward curtis wells .
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`` ed wells redirects here .for the baseball player , see ed wells -lrb- baseball -rrb- '' edward curtis wells -lrb- august 26 , 1910 -- july 1 , 1986 -rrb- was senior vice president and served on the board of directors of boeing company .he helped to design the boeing 747 .he was known as the `` elder statesman of aviation '' .