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... thought it would be a great job. Shortly afterwards, the companies, the aircraft companies, came to the school recruiting, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in particular, North American Aviation, Inc. , and suddenly the class realized ... took a lot of explaining. Fortunately, we recovered the rocket, and we said no. McDonnell Aircraft Corporation had proposed that, “Well, let’s put the rockets on the side of the vehicle ...

... flying job in the Air Force. My flying background was primarily in tactical fighter aircraft and training aircraft. I wanted to return to the fighter pilot business with a job flying F ... pilots in the NASA T-38s as well as the Shuttle Training Aircraft or STA. The STAs were Gulfstream aircraft that were modified to fly like the Space Shuttle during approach and ... in this evaluation project. During the training, Dale and I made several trips to Boeing Aircraft Corporation in Seattle, Washington, to learn about the IUS. We were becoming well versed in the ...

... at the offices of the Signal Corporation. Carol Butler is the interviewer and is assisted by Kevin Rusnak. '''Hobokan:''' …John F. Yardley was McDonnell’s Aircraft Corporation kingpin at Cape Canaveral Florida . That ... flew to, I think it was Boeing was doing some work, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation was doing some work, General Dynamics Corporation was doing some work. So we got to fly around the country ...

... us up to—by this time, of course, we were NASA and we picked McDonnell Aircraft Corporation . Actually, we rated the proposals 1, 2, 3, etc., and NASA Headquarters selected the winner ... include local economic conditions, for example. Mr. "Mac" James S. McDonnell, Jr.—President of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was an MIT graduate, too. Laughter That was a really great company in St. Louis ...

... they had a Mercury simulator that was built by the spacecraft contractor, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, later McDonnell Douglas Corporation , and they had started to convert that one, as well as we may have ... , not only with their Gemini experience, but they had started building large simulators for their aircraft, and very high fidelity, combining both motion and visual. But Link was also doing that ...

... do a backside approach. They had a missed approach coming in to Lambert Field, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri , and they were doing a backside approach, and they ran into a ... . Eventually it got to be two bidders, and the two bidders were Lockheed Aircraft Corporation and Rockwell International Corporation . The RFP asked to have a single Shuttle processing contractor. Rockwell's proposal came ...

... supersonic flight. On Oct. 14, 1947, Capt. Charles E. Yeager (USAF) flew Bell Aircraft Corp. X-1 experimental jet aircraft-launched from B-29 bomber from Muroc Flight Test Base, Calif.-to speed of 1078 km per hr (670 mph) in first flight to break sound barrier. Aircraft, designed by Bell chief designer Robert J. Woods, had been developed under Army Air Force contract with ...

... lot of them left for high paid jobs and went to work for RCA Corporation and for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation and so forth. So there were openings. There were opportunities there as a ... did this sort of thing. I also did aeronautic research on one of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation airplanes. Had a model of it there at Langley, and I was the project engineer ... actually flew people in. I did a lot of travel to St. Louis, Missouri, McDonnell Aircraft Company manufacturing site . '''Johnson:''' Can you talk about that travel? Because you were still pretty ...

... to work the Grumman Aerospace Corporation proposal, and so we wound up with three main proposals, Grumman’s, McDonnell Douglas’ Corporation , and North American’s Rockwell Corporation . Lockheed Aircraft Corporation was in the running for ... it. I never did fly the STA. '''Wright:''' How about the carrier aircraft? Did you fly the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft? '''A. Crews:''' No. '''Wright:''' That’s a mighty big plane, isn’t ...

... by the people who built the hardware. They were using from McDonnell-Douglas McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, later McDonnell-Douglas Corporation certain drawings and from some of the other subsystem people certain drawings, and ... 've got to be careful here, because I don't want to falsely get Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in trouble or anything like that—but my understanding of it is that—the Lockheed ...

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