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... metal section of the shield leading edge. McDonnell-Douglas manufactured the article for NASA. The JetStar would carry a Knollenberg probe, mounted atop the aircraft, to measure the number and size of ... hours for both aircraft were well above engineering predictions. A single F-15 was supposed to take 22,978 man hours to build; during the first quarter of 1984, McDonnell Douglas needed ...

... back for DFRC. '''Wright:''' I know there were some concerns of safety for both the aircraft and spacecraft when they dis-joined. Were you involved in those discussions of the safety ... , fifty feet in front of the bar. So they were flying the T-38s training aircraft against this thing. And sure enough, they could fly. The night vision goggles were not ... to do all the on-board computer stuff. They were going to do everything. And, McDonnell Douglas Corporation had been doing that, had been doing the flight design part of that ...

... -ray stars. ''( Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL Release 630)'' October 8-14: McDonnell Douglas DC-10 Series 40 jet transport aircraft set three point-to-point nonstop records during 48 942-km (30 ... Janeiro to Los Angeles (10 139 km; 6300 mi) in 11 hrs 52 min. ''( McDonnell Douglas 1973 calendar; McDonnell Douglas Pio)'' September 1972 September October 1972 October Oct 1 1972 1 Oct ...

... Os on its long-distance routes, and there was no British-made aircraft of the size British Airways needed. McDonnell Douglas had been advertising in London papers "the difference to Britain" of ... McDonnell Douglas on a modification of the French 150-seat Mercure. The WSJ reported 10 Aug. that U.S. manufacturers' sales of widebody aircraft had fallen "billions of dollars behind original projections." McDonnell ...

An experimental jetliner being developed by McDonnell Douglas Corporation debuted in a one-hour flight from the Douglas Aircraft Facility in Long Beach, California. The aircraft, with one unducted fan (UDF) engine and ... over conventional jet engines. McDonnell Douglas MD-91 and MD-92 airliners were being developed to meet the expected demand among airlines for alternative, fuel-efficient aircraft during the latter 1990s. "This ...

... hearings to determine whether the Federal Aviation Administration and McDonnell Douglas Corp. had dealt adequately with cargo door problems on the DC-10 aircraft. Experts believed that the door had caused a ... -service DC-10s after the Paris crash had showed that two aircraft, including the Turkish airliner, had not been modified despite McDonnell Douglas records to the contrary. Seven months after the Canadian ...

... . as McDonnell Douglas 188 was demonstrated for press in flight over Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Eastern Air­lines, McDonnell Douglas, and FAA were testing aircraft as possible re­placement for jet aircraft on Eastern's crowded shuttle service between Washington, New York, and Boston. When fully developed, aircraft would carry ...

... ., was reelected to Council. ''(NAE Release)'' St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial described plight of McDonnell Douglas Corp. in "aerospace depression": Total employment was off almost a third from high ... of water offshore into Caribbean Sea. Allen H. Watkins, Manager of MSC Earth Observations Aircraft program, said excellent data gathered on flights had been supplemented by most nearly complete ...

... United Aircraft Corp.; Boeing Co.; United Air Lines, Inc.; and American Airlines, Inc., had been spent in modifying a JT8D engine to reduce irritating high-frequency noise. When installed on the McDonnell ... were expected' with the engine installed on Boeing 's 727 and 737 aircraft. During the initial test phase, McDonnell Douglas would fly for 90 hr a DC-9 outfitted with the modified ...

... the French-British Concorde SST, the French-German Alpha Jet trainer-attack aircraft, the French-British Jaguar close air support aircraft, and the multinational A-300B twin-engine widebody transport. The U ... general public. Boeing Co. and McDonnell Douglas Corp. displayed aircraft that were potential replacements for the Boeing 707 and McDonnell DC- 8 on commercial airlines. The Boeing aircraft, a three-engine member of the ...

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