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... -IV): Bell Aircraft Corporation ; The Boeing Airplane Company ; Chrysler Corporation ; General Dynamics Corporation , Convair Astronautics Division ; Douglas Aircraft Company , Inc.; Grumman Aircraft Corporation Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation; Lockheed Aircraft Corporation ; The Martin Company ; McDonnell Aircraft Corporation ; North American Aviation North American Aviation , Inc.; and United Aircraft Corporation. ''Akens et al ...

... . aircraft companies had each been awarded $1-million contracts to produce the studies for the Vtol aircraft. A joint American-German group of companies would build the prototypes, Boeing Co., Lockheed Aircraft Corp, McDonnell Aircraft Corp, Republic Aviation Corp, and United Aircraft were the U.S ...

... global weather satellite system. . . ." ''(Av. Wk., 7/6/64; CR, 7/31/64, A4040-41)'' McDonnell Aircraft Corp. celebrated its 25th anniversary. Today with facilities worth $90 million, a backlog of $1 ... 35,000 employees, the company looked back to the day in 1939 when James S. McDonnell's office had a typewriter, one employee, and no contracts. ''(AP, New Orleans Times-Picayune ...

... flight this summer, was delivered to Cape Kennedy . It was flown by cargo plane from McDonnell Aircraft Corp., prime contractor for manufacture of the craft, where it had undergone simulated flights. Astronauts ... Edward H. White who would pilot the Gemini IV , also had made simulated flights at McDonnell. ''(AP, Wash, Post, 4 /5/65 )'' Dr. Edmund Klein of Roswell Park Memorial Institute for ...

... . ''(NASA Release 65-144)'' NASA Flight Research Center awarded separate lifting body study contracts to McDonnell Aircraft Co. and Northrop Norair. The two separate six-month studies would investigate a vehicle concept ... included determination of problem areas and their influence on design, Both contracts were fixed price; McDonnell received $152,496 and Norair $150,000. ''(FRC Release 11-65)'' James E. Webb , NASA ...

... . White II (L/Col., USAF) and David S. Lewis, president of McDonnell Aircraft Corp., launched Operation Zero Defect at the McDonnell plant in St, Louis, Mo., county. They addressed an outdoor gathering of ...

... increased safety for all astronauts, regardless of nationality." ''(NYT, 4/26/67)'' James Smith McDonnell, founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corp., received National Academy of Engineering's second Founders Medal at NAE's third ...

... Stars’ Birth,” Washington Post, 28 June 2001.)'' John F. Yardley , who had worked at the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, serving as the Launch Operation Manager for the Mercury and Gemini spacecraft and the ... on the Mercury and the Gemini. From 1981 to 1989, Yardley had been President of McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company. NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin called Yardley “as responsible as any individual ...

... parts of late-model aircraft produced in the U.S. American planes under consideration were: McDonnell Aircraft Corp's F4C (Phantom II) carrier-based attack aircraft; F-111 low-level strike aircraft made by General Dynamics Corp. and Grumman; and C-141 and Orion, both made by Lockheed Aircraft Corp ...

... comfortably before the end of the decade.” C. R. Able, group vice president of Douglas Aircraft Co.’s Missile and Space Systems Div., outlined to the group plan for converting empty ... function of USAF’s Manned Orbiting Laboratory ( Manned Orbiting Laboratory MOL ). Douglas Aircraft Co., McDonnell Aircraft Corp., and Grumman Aircraft Engineering Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. each had $50,000 NASA contracts to study use of ...

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