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... orbital workshop to the McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Center, Huntington Beach, Calif., said Marshall Space Flight Center . Workshop, built by McDonnell Douglas , was model ... aircraft within 30 mi of their destination; within immediate terminal area, 200 knots for turbine powered aircraft and 156 knots for piston-engine aircraft. FAA cited growing numbers of high-performance aircraft ...

... and then flight-tested on modified supersonic jet F-106 aircraft operated by Lewis Research Center LeRC at Selfridge AFB, Mich. Aircraft was flown as low as about 90 m (300 ft ... MSFC , astronauts would study Workshop procedures in mockup. Sept. 14-18 critical design review at McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co. Huntington Beach, Calif., facility would be attended by more than 200. At ...

... the Moon? So I made hundreds of parabolic flights in the zero-G aircraft or the one-sixth-G aircraft; same thing, just a slightly different parabola. So I worried about what ... you were part of a team that went to Huntington Beach California to work with McDonnell Douglas for preflight verification tests. Share with us about the importance of these teams going ... in these exciting things. I’ve had a chance to do special things, landing on aircraft carriers and flying into space and getting involved, intimately involved, in the preparations for the ...

... ; Harrison, W Post, 9/24/69, A9)'' Marshall Space Flight Center MSFC announced contract awards: McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co. was awarded $97,340,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee/award-fee contract ... Bordeaux in occupied France to New York and return. Aircraft, delivered too late for use in war, had been burned by Germans. Comparable aircraft was not built until 1956, Fancher said. ''(W ...

... McDonnell Douglas , all producers of domestic widebody transport aircraft. Proposals called for concept tradeoff and design studies to verify aircraft suitability for the carrier mission. The studies would include the prototype widebody aircraft built by Boeing and McDonnell Douglas for ...

... $8 million in subcontracts to Grumman Corp. for engineering work on space shuttle. McDonnell Douglas Corp. would receive subcontracting worth $4 million, and $200 million worth of ... F-111 jet fighter aircraft, FB-lll swing-wing bomber, SR-71 photographic reconnaissance aircraft, T-38 supersonic trainer aircraft, and C-5 Galaxy, world's largest aircraft. See Sept. 18. ''(Program)'' ...

... McDonnell Douglas Corp. for development of the wing, which was expected to reduce fuel requirements by increasing range, speed, and maneuverability. (AFSC Release OIP 021.75) Despite the immediate need for aircraft ... several years. In addition, the NASA program could not quiet the JT-3D aircraft-the Boeing 707s and McDonnell Douglas DC- 8s-which made up the noisiest fourth of the nation's ...

... McDonnell Douglas Corp. announced joint pro­gram to evaluate propeller-driven STOL aircraft for use on 300- to 500- mi intercity flights by trial of 64-passenger French Breguet 941 ''(McDonnell Douglas 188)'' aircraft. Beginning in September, perform­ance of STOL aircraft, which could ...

... 68-219)'' ComSatCorp, on behalf of INTELSAT consortium, signed $72-million con­tract with Hughes Aircraft Co. for construction of Intelsat IV series of advanced comsats-four spacecraft and one ... annually to two Americans and one foreign national. Other 1968 recipients were James S. McDonnell, Chairman of Board, McDonnell Douglas Corp., and England's Sir Frank Whittle, often called father of jet ...

... and testing of 2 prototypes of an improved STOL (short takeoff and landing) aircraft for the Marine Corps by McDonnell Douglas Corp. at a cost of about $400 million, the Wall Street ... AV8A Harrier built by Britain's Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Ltd. The Marine Corps had purchased 110 earlier Harriers from the British firm; if McDonnell Douglas could develop a stronger version, the Corps ...

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