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... I think that that connection between Langley and Wallops was very instrumental, because the Pilotless Aircraft Research Division PARD , where Max Faget and Bill Bland and Aleck C. Bond and those ... started and Max decided to take of his group of people away from the Pilotless Aircraft Research Division and start moving some of the flight research people and the PARD people ... it into the design system and see what the people—" By that time the McDAC McDonnell Aircraft Corp. people were coming on board to do the Mercury capsule design, so we would ...

... industry ''(Chrysler Corp.)''. ''(UPI, Chic. Trib., 12/15/63; Marshall Star, 12/18/63, 1)'' McDonnell Aircraft Corp. of St Louis shipped the first of two Gemini mission simulators to Cape Kennedy ... normal progression we incur additional expense and introduce both operational problems and safety hazards . . . . "Our aircraft industries and our airlines have competed suc­cessfully in the world marketplace for more than ...

... stage for the Saturn V booster was successfully test-fired for full duration at Douglas Aircraft Co,'s Sacramento Test Center. In a test simulating a lunar flight, the stage ran ... be funded at approximately $1 million each, were: Lockheed Aircraft Corp,; McDonnell Aircraft Corp.; Republic Aviation Corp,; and the Boeing Co, Studies would cover aircraft configurations for tactical missions. ''(DOD Release 541-65)'' United ...

... /66)'' NASA awarded $50,000, 60-day fixed-price contracts to Douglas Aircraft Corp., McDonnell Aircraft Corp., and Grumman Aircraft Engineering Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. to perform definition and preliminary design studies and evaluate plan ...

... which 10 were successful, 1 partially successful, and one unsuccessful. The X-15 rocket research aircraft set a new altitude record of 350,000 ft. and began its follow-on flights ... Jack N. James and Robert J. Parks, Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL , and John F. Yardley, McDonnell Aircraft Corp., Cape Canaveral . ''(NASA Releases 63-217,215; Wash. Post, 10/2/63; Webb, Text ...

... to the Bureau of Astronautics in St. Louis as an industrial security officer at the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation aircraft production plant. I learned a lot about plant physical security there, and also I ... a couple of years earlier when one of the astronauts, Theodore C. Freeman, lost his aircraft and was killed trying to eject free from the crash site near Ellington Field, Houston ...

... Washington. Other Space Club awards: Dr. Harold A. Rosen and Donald D. Williams of Hughes Aircraft Co. received the astronautics engineer award for contributions to conception and development of Syncom satellite ... a $1,500 grant to further advanced education in the field of science and astronautics; McDonnell Aircraft Corp. and General Dynamics/ Astronautics received Nelson P. Jackson Aerospace Award for performance on Mercury ...

... with Gemini spacecraft installed inside a KC-135 jet aircraft. Astronaut John Young took part in the tests along with four USAF and McDonnell Aircraft Corp. test pilots. ''(Houston Chron., 5/19/64 ...

... of these very goals. . . ." ''(CR, 1/29/65, 1535)'' NASA approved a contract with the McDonnell Aircraft Corp. converting the $712-million Gemini spacecraft contract from a cost-plus-fixed-fee to ... first two XV-5A V/Stol (Vertical/ Short Take-Off and Landing) lift-fan research aircraft at Edwards AFB where they were being readied for a six-month Army flight evaluation ...

... . ''(Transcript)'' Production of Gemini spacecraft and F-4 Phantom jet fighter aircraft was halted when 16,000 machinists struck McDonnell Aircraft Corp. in a wage dispute after rejecting the company's contract proposals ...

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