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... destroyed in explosion 10 min before it was scheduled to be ignited in test at Douglas Aircraft Corp.'s Sacramento plant. NASA later determined accident had been caused by faulty welding in ... was being spent on the war. ''(Sehlstedt, Jr., B Sun, 1/21/67)'' F-111A aircraft, lent by USAF to NASA to obtain basic flight research data for the design and ... study contracts- one to Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. for $272,000; one to Hughes Aircraft Co. for $299,000-for research on multi-purpose synchronous comsats. Lockheed had proposed an ...

... -8 Super 63, world's largest commercial jet aircraft, was displayed by Douglas Aircraft Co. in Long Beach, Calif. Scheduled to fly within 30 days, aircraft had 187.4-ft-long fuselage, 1423.4 ...

... were: (1) a replica of Lindbergh's aircraft, "The Spirit of St. Louis"; (2) Douglas Aircraft Co.'s DC-8 Super 63, world's largest commercial jet aircraft; (3) SV-5J, first manned jet ...

... see it rust." ''(CR, 6/27/66, 13707-08)'' NASA announced conversion of contract with Douglas Aircraft Co. for development of Saturn launch vehicle's Saturn IVB S-IVB stage from cost ... cost was $700 million, plus fee, ''( Marshall Space Flight Center MSFC Release 66-141)'' Lockheed Aircraft Corp. displayed 273-ft., full-scale mockup of its 1,800mph revised supersonic transport model ...

... . completed 81 flight tests with cold gas one-man propulsion system in USAF C-131 aircraft flying "Keplerian trajectories." National Bureau of Standards established the Radio Refractive Index Data Center at ... firms in Europe formed an informal organization known as U.S. Aerospace Industries in Europe. Douglas Aircraft reported successful drop and recovery of a data capsule and camera that will be used ...

... aeronautical program, which supports and conducts research for national goals in military and commercial aircraft, including V/STOL aircraft, supersonic transports, long-range flight at hypersonic speeds, technical support of the USAF ... was Chief of the Life Sciences Section of the Missiles and Space Systems Division of Douglas Aircraft Co. and had previously served as a research scientist at the USAF School of Aviation ...

... I was on, and so I left and came to California. Then I went to Douglas Aircraft Company and tried to get a job, and they weren't hiring. Then I went ... a lot easier managing, and then we would farm out pieces of it to other aircraft companies so they could manage some things, too, with us. So that's what we ... the job to Boeing. That become a little bit of a problem, too, because Boeing Aircraft Company didn't get the job of integrating because they've been integrating airplanes for ...

... , USAF announced. Three of U.K.’s 60 operational Thors already had been returned to Douglas Aircraft Co. for conversion, so that they could be used in space assignments similar to those ... Dept. of Commerce’s Office of Technical Services. ''(Wash. Eve. Star, 1/11/63)'' Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and IAM broke off contract negotiations indefinitely; still unresolved was dispute over “union shop ...

... "questionable" performance on Skybolt missile of Douglas Aircraft Co. was basis for DOD's selection of Bell Aerosystems Co. for development of X-22 V/STOL aircraft. ''(UPI, Wash. Post, 6/14,/63 ...

NASA concurred in Grumman Aircraft. Engineering Corp. selection of Radio Corp. of America as subcontractor for Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) ... in sun's polar regions to trace solar magnetic fields. Flight would be sponsored by Douglas Aircraft Co., National Geographic Society , and 11 other organi­zations. ''(NYT, 6/28/63, 1; NASA ...

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