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... strikers to resume work on the Gemini spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center . The machinists struck McDonnell Aircraft Corp, Gemini's builder, on Nov, 18 in a dispute over wages and working conditions ... on an experiments pallet to fly aboard Project Apollo missions: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co,; McDonnell Aircraft Corp,; Martin Co,; and Northrop Space Labs. The firms, under separate and concurrent fixed-price ...

... advanced training, you were selected to become the pilot of single engine aircraft (fighters and attack aircraft) or multiengine patrol aircraft . In my case, I asked for fighters and got fighters. Then we ... 't the only people doing that. Test pilots at Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. and at North American Aviation, Inc. and McDonnell Aircraft Corp. also were doing similar kinds of things that contribute to ...

... to James S. McDonnell, founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corp., by Vice President Humphrey in ceremony at Smithsonian Institution. Making the award on behalf of President Johnson, Mr. Humphrey said McDonnell had been selected because of his leadership in aeronautics and astronautics as demonstrated by the performance of the McDonnell Gemini spacecraft and the F4 Phantom II jet fighter. Trophy was presented annually by Look ...

... to 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 ... going down. 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 ... able to have supersonic flow. Of course, you had models of the aircraft, high-fidelity models of the aircraft, that you would put in there and you'd put them on a ...

... the IAM strike against McDonnell Aircraft Corp. which began Nov. 18. Union had demanded changes in job specifications and was dissatisfied with machinery for filing grievances against management, McDonnell was prime contractor for ... been replaced Nov. 17. Checks of the new unit were delayed by the strike against McDonnell Aircraft Corp. by IAM machinists at Kennedy Space Center . ''(NYT, 11/22/65, 40)'' For more ...

... ,087-to-2,841 vote, machinists at the McDonnell Aircraft Corp, approved a new three-year contract with McDonnell Aircraft which had been worked out by McDonnell, IAM, and the Federal Mediation Board to end ...

... the drawings provided 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 ... '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 ...

... and told him the story—I mean, we went to Jim James S. McDonnell Jr. —Mr. McDonnell, head of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation —told him the story on it, and he said, “I’ll pay ... in the program, I remember you and Gus Grissom worked on things like high-performance aircraft, spacecraft, boats, the whole thing. '''Cooper:''' Boats, airplanes, cars. '''Neal:''' You name it, you were ...

... when the Apollo spacecraft was being developed. And it was two different companies: you had McDonnell Aircraft Corporation for one, and then you had North American Aviation, Inc. for Apollo. So it ... that process? Any differences in the—? '''Borman:''' It was like going from night to day. McDonnell was much more informal and, you know, I think everybody really had a great deal of respect for Mr. James S. McDonnell Jr. , for John Yardley, and for Walter F. Burke. And it was a sort of ...

... McDonnell Aircraft Corp.'s latest contract proposal and prepared for a strike at midnight tomorrow that would halt the production of Gemini space capsules and F-4 Phantom jet fighter planes. McDonnell had ... still would not put them on a par with other workers in the aerospace and aircraft industries. ''(AP, NYT, 11/18/65, 27; AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 11/18/65, A3 ...

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