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... spacecraft contractor, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, later McDonnell Douglas Corporation , and they had started to convert that one, as well as we may have gotten a completely new one down there from McDonnell. I think ... that time had large capabilities. McDonnell Douglas was one of them, not only with their Gemini experience, but they had started building large simulators for their aircraft, and very high fidelity, combining ...

... brings 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 ... considerations. They could 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 ...

... particular speed range, and so there were very few data available. They formed this Pilotless Aircraft Research Division PARD to exploit that technique of building models, launching them from Wallops Island ... speak, how did that transfer into actually building the thing? '''Johnson:''' First off, McDonnell…—it was McDonnell Aircraft Corporation then—McDonnell, they were a very capable group of guys. They'd been building airplanes ...

... of Rhode Island and got my degree there. …I had a job offer from Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. and another one from NACA national Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Langley Field ... found was when I was working on the Mercury spacecraft. I was a project engineer. McDonnell-Douglas McDonnell Aircraft Co., St. Louis, Missouri was the one that was going to build the capsule ...

... -100 flight test program, all the instrumentation was on board the aircraft. All the recording was done on the aircraft. When the aircraft landed, you took off the data cassettes or the film ... on board in 1959, they’d already got…the spacecraft contractor. '''Butler:''' McDonnell Aircraft Corporation ? '''Fielder:''' McDonnell. They’d already got McDonnell and a bunch of other contractors on board to develop the spacecraft ...

... to when I was in the Air Force and also when I was working with McDonnell Aircraft Corporation on the spacecraft. Well, this trust carried over into some of testing down at ... the next system. In fact, with McDonnell we employed one of my flight test experiences; namely that “The people on the ground got to know the aircraft we’re flying.” Well, I carried this into the Mercury and Gemini Programs, and we finally got McDonnell to agree where basically we had a small detachment of McDonnell people ...

... M. See , Jr., were killed when their T-38 aircraft overran St. Louis Municipal Airport in rain and fog and crashed into the McDonnell Aircraft Corp. building which housed GEMINI IX and 10 ... in antimissile missiles and their radars, maneuverable warheads for ICBMS, military space systems, and advanced aircraft. During hearings on the FY 1966 budget, General McConnell had said the decision on whether ...

... , and again I was put in the best division there. It was called PARD, Pilotless Aircraft Research Division. We had the exciting opportunities to launch vehicles, to test different configurations, and ... , and I think this is before we had McDAC McDonnell Aircraft Corporation on board. I have an interesting story to tell you about that. McDonnell-Douglas, I've always called it McDAC . I ... fun. That really was fun, that being Mercury. When we got the contractor, McDonnell-Douglas, and a man from McDonnell-Douglas gave me this information, he said, "Dottie, did you know that ...

... Award: John F. Yardley, McDonnell Aircraft Corp.; Bastian Hello, Martin Company Martin Co. ; Bernhard A. Hohmann, Aerospace Corp.; Walter D. Smith, Martin Company Martin Co. ; Walter F. Burke, McDonnell; Louis D. Wilson, Aerojet ... J. Haughton, Lockheed; Roger Lewis, General Dynamics ; James S. McDonnell, McDonnell Aircraft ; R. I. McKenzie, Aerojet-General ; L. Eugene Root, Lockheed; David S. Lewis, McDonnell; and Jack A. Bowers, Martin Marietta . NASA Superior Achievement ...

... of $456.6 million contract for Project Gemini spacecraft with McDonnell Aircraft Corp. Development of the two-man spacecraft began at McDonnell in December 1961 under preliminary letter contract. Contract called for 13 ... are to provide the research and ad­vanced technology which will "1. Enable our aircraft industry to produce aircraft which will, to the greatest practicable extent, make the convenience and speed of ...

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