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... alpha, 3rd landing skid, and electrical loads. ''( X-15 Proj Off)'' McDonnell Aircraft Corp. and Douglas Aircraft Co. merged to form McDonnell Douglas Corp., pending Justice Dept. approval. ''(Av Wk, 4/24/67,35 ...

... -4J Phantom jet, developed by McDonnell Aircraft Corp. for carrier use by USN and USMC, made its first public flight at Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport. Aircraft had higher maximum speed, greater range, higher combat ceiling, shorter takeoff distance, and greater combat capabilities than other Phantom models. ''(McDonnell Release)'' Memorandum of understanding for ...

... ICBM officially declared operational and taken over by the Strategic Air Command, at Vandenberg AFB . McDonnell Aircraft Corporation reported to NASA the results of several company-funded studies of follow-on experiments ... spacecraft to a speed of 36,000 feet per second as it reentered the atmosphere. '' McDonnell Aircraft Corporation , Project Mercury Capsules, Follow On Experiments, Engineering Report 6919 (September 1, 1959), p. 6 ...

... would soon begin for the McDonnell Aircraft Co. full-scale development, costing about $500 million, of a tactical electronic warfare intermediate support system (TISS) for the F15 Eagle aircraft program, Defense Daily reported. The award to Honeywell was part of a larger contract the U.S. Air Force recently awarded to McDonnell to upgrade the F ...

... Space Task Group October 1960. Supervisor of missile flight test for McDonnell Aircraft 1958 1960. USAF fighter pilot 1955 1958. McDonnell Aircraft flight test engineer 1954 55. BS in aeronautical engineering from Parks College ...

... associate administrator for the Space Shuttle Program at that time, a big tall fellow from McDonnell Aircraft Corporation that had been involved in the Gemini Program John F. Yardley . I told him ... Space Shuttle main engine, which obviously is there. We did some studies on the aging aircraft. It looks like these things will last longer than people thought they would. And are ... wind tunnel tests I did was associated, when I first came to MIT, was with McDonnell Company-sponsored twin jet airplane, and then later on that turned out to be the ...

... Stack was active in those days. John didn’t like rocket aircraft. He thought there ought to be a jet aircraft. And so the D-558-I was his brainchild, and that ... ; and, ironically, the lift/drag ratio of a mach 3 aircraft can be very high and approach that of a subsonic aircraft. The problem has been the propulsion has been inefficient and ... have any—you headed the team that evaluated the contractor proposals for Mercury. Why was McDonnell Aircraft Corporation chosen? Why was their proposal taken? '''Donlan:''' Well, the source selection weighs all the ...

... )'' Aviation Week reported that President Johnson had inspected USAF-Lockheed YF-12A (A-11) supersonic aircraft at Edwards AFB during his recent tour of West Coast defense installations. ''(Av. Wk, 6 ... to th e general trend were McDonnell Aircraft Co. and Douglas Aircraft Co., the former mainly due to work on Gemini spacecraft and F-4 Phantom II aircraft and the latter due to increased ...

... the importance of the strategic reconnaissance mission. The SR-71 aircraft reconnaissance system is the most advanced in the world. "The aircraft will fly at more than three times the speed of ... , this aircraft program. "Further information on this major advanced aircraft system will be released from time to time at the appropriate military secret classification levels." ''(Transcript, NYT, 7/25/64, 6)'' McDonnell Aircraft Corp ...

... , 2/2/65)'' Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced plans to buy American military aircraft to replace British aircraft, an action he said would save more than $840 million over a 10-yr ... take-off supersonic strike aircraft and the HS-681 short take-off military transport. Both were made by the Hawker Siddeley group. American Phantom H's, made by McDonnell Aircraft , would be ordered ...

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