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For people with the surname McDonnell, see McDonnell (surname). The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer based in St. Louis, Missouri. It was founded in 1939 by James Smith McDonnell, and later merged with the Douglas Aircraft Company, to form McDonnell Douglas in 1967. Image File history File links Mcdonnell-logo. ...
The Douglas Aircraft Company was founded by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. ...
DC-10, retired from American Airlines fleet at gate McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturer, producing a number of famous commercial and military aircraft. ...
Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ...
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An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft. ...
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James Smith McDonnell (April 9, 1899 - August 22, 1980) was an aviation pioneer and founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, later McDonnell Douglas. ...
The Douglas Aircraft Company was founded by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. ...
DC-10, retired from American Airlines fleet at gate McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturer, producing a number of famous commercial and military aircraft. ...
History
Jim McDonnell founded J.S. McDonnell & Associates in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1928 to produce a personal aircraft for family use.[1] The economic depression from 1929 ruined his plans and the company collapsed. He went to work for Glenn L. Martin. He left in 1938 to try again with his own firm, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, based near St. Louis, Missouri, in 1939.[2] James Smith McDonnell (April 9, 1899 - August 22, 1980) was an aviation pioneer and founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, later McDonnell Douglas. ...
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World War II was a major boost to the new company. It grew from fifteen employees in 1939 to 5,000 at the end the war and became a significant aircraft parts producer, and developed the XP-67 Bat fighter prototype.[3] McDonnell also developed the Gargoyle guided missile.[4] McDonnell Aircraft suffered after the war with an end of government orders and a surplus of aircraft, and heavily cut its workforce. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
The McDonnell XP-67 was a prototype for a twin-engine, long range, single-place fighter aircraft for the U.S. Army Air Corps with a pressurized cockpit. ...
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In 1946, Dave Lewis joined the company as Chief of Aerodynamics. He led the development of the legendary F-4 Phantom II in 1954, became Executive Vice President in 1958, and finally became President and Chief Operating Officer in 1962. Lewis went on the manage Douglas Aircraft Division in 1967 after the McDonnell Douglas merger. In 1969, he returned to St. Louis as President of McDonnell Douglas. David Lewis, 1983 David Sloan Lewis, Jr. ...
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McDonnell began developing jets, building on their successful FH-1 Phantom to become a major supplier to the US Navy with the F2H Banshee, F3H Demon, and the F-101 Voodoo. The advent of the Korean War helped push McDonnell into a major military fighter supply role, especially with the F-4 Phantom II (1958). McDonnell FH-1 Phantom. ...
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F2H-2 Banshee The McDonnell F2H Banshee was a military carrier-based jet fighter aircraft, used by the US Navy from 1951 to 1959 and by the Royal Canadian Navy from 1955 until 1962. ...
The McDonnell F3H Demon was a US Navy carrier-based jet fighter aircraft. ...
The McDonnell F-101 Voodoo was a supersonic military aircraft flown by the USAF and the RCAF. Initially designed as a long-range bomber escort (known as a penetration fighter) for the Strategic Air Command, the Voodoo served in a variety of other roles, including the fighter bomber, all-weather...
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McDonnell made a number of missiles, including the pioneering Gargoyle and unusual ADM-20 Quail, as well as experimenting with hypersonic flight, research that enabled them to gain a substantial share of the NASA projects Mercury and Gemini. The company was now a major employer, but was having problems. The McDonnell ADM-20 Quail was a subsonic, jet powered, air-launched decoy cruise missile built by McDonnell Aircraft Corporation. ...
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Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States. ...
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McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft began to sound each other out about a merger. Inquiries began in 1963; Douglas offered bid invitations from December 1966 and accepted that of McDonnell. The two firms were officially merged on April 28, 1967 as the McDonnell Douglas Corporation (MDC). In 1967, with the merger of McDonnell and Douglas Aircraft, Dave Lewis, then president of McDonnell, was named chairman of what was called the Long Beach, Douglas Aircraft Division. Lewis managed the turnaround of the division. For other uses, see 1963 (disambiguation). ...
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Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ...
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Products - TD2D/KDD/KDH Katydid (Target Drone, 1942)
- XP-67 Bat experimental twin engine propeller fighter
- FH Phantom twin engine jet fighter
- F2H Banshee twin engine naval jet fighter
- XF-85 Goblin experimental jet fighter
- XF-88 Voodoo experimental twin engine fighter
- F3H Demon twin engine naval jet fighter
- F-101 Voodoo twin engine long range jet fighter
- F-4 Phantom II
 McDonnell F-4 Phantom II fighter-bomber two-seat, twin-engined supersonic long-range all-weather fighter-bomber - McDonnell 119/220 business jet
- XV-1 Convertiplane
- XH-20 Little Henry
- XHJD-1 Whirlaway
- Mercury capsule
- Gemini capsule
- ASSET spaceplane
The McDonnell XP-67 was a prototype for a twin-engine, long range, single-place fighter aircraft for the U.S. Army Air Corps with a pressurized cockpit. ...
McDonnell FH-1 Phantom. ...
F2H-2 Banshee The McDonnell F2H Banshee was a military carrier-based jet fighter aircraft, used by the US Navy from 1951 to 1959 and by the Royal Canadian Navy from 1955 until 1962. ...
The McDonnell XF-85 Goblin was a fighter aircraft, conceived during World War II and intended to be carried in the bomb bay of the giant Convair B-36 bomber as a defensive parasite fighter. ...
Supersonic jet-turboprop hybrid XF-88B The McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo was a long-range, twin-engine jet fighter aircraft designed for the United States Air Force. ...
The McDonnell F3H Demon was a US Navy carrier-based jet fighter aircraft. ...
The McDonnell F-101 Voodoo was a supersonic military aircraft flown by the USAF and the RCAF. Initially designed as a long-range bomber escort (known as a penetration fighter) for the Strategic Air Command, the Voodoo served in a variety of other roles, including the fighter bomber, all-weather...
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Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States. ...
Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of the United States of America. ...
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