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McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturing corporation and defense contractor, formed by the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967. Between then and its own merger with Boeing in 1997, it produced well-known commercial and military aircraft, such as the DC-10 and the MD-80 airliners, the F-15 Eagle air superiority fighter, and the F/A-18 Hornet multirole fighter.
The company was formed from the firms of James Smith McDonnell and Donald Wills Douglas in 1967. Both men were of Scottish ancestry, were graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and had worked for the aircraft manufacturer Glenn L. Martin Company. Douglas F3D Skyknight Douglas had been chief engineer at Martin before leaving to establish Davis-Douglas Company in early 1920 in Los Angeles. The following year, he bought out his backer and renamed the firm the Douglas Aircraft Company. McDonnell founded J.S. McDonnell & Associates in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1926 to produce a personal aircraft for family use. The economic depression from 1929 ruined his ideas and the company collapsed. He worked at three companies, joining Glenn Martin Company in 1933. He left Martin in 1938 to try again with his own firm, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, this time based at Lambert Field, outside St. Louis, Missouri. Douglas Aircraft profited during World War II. The company produced about 10,000 C-47s, a military variant of the Douglas DC-3, from 1942 to 1945. The workforce swelled to 160,000
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The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer based in Southern California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas. Douglas Aircraft operated as a division of McDonnell Douglas afterwards. McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing in 1997.
Product list commercial aircraft Douglas
Douglas DWC World Cruiser / Douglas DC-2 Uiver / Douglas DC-3 / Douglas DC-5 / Douglas DC-6 / Douglas DC-7 / Douglas DC-8 / Douglas DC_9 / Douglas DC-10 / Douglas MD-83 Douglas MD-11 / Comac AR21 / Douglas C-53 Skytrooper
Product list Military transport
Douglas YC-15 / Douglas C-74 / Douglas C-124 "Old Shaky" / Douglas C-133 Cargomaster / Douglas C-53 / Douglas C54 / Douglas C-118 / McDonnell Douglas C-17A Globemaster III
Product list Military aircraft
Douglas B-66 / Douglas Dc-5 / AH-64 Apache / DBT Devastador / Douglas Havoc / Douglas Invader
Douglas Dauntles / Douglas Demon / Douglas AD-1 Skyraider / Douglas YC-15 / McDonnell FH Phantom / McDonnell F2H BansheeMcDonnell F-4E Phantom / McDonnell F-101Voodoo / Douglas A2D / Douglas F5D / Douglas Dragon / Douglas Bolo / Douglas Skyray / Douglas Skywarior / Douglas Skyhawk
McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturing corporation and defense contractor
McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturing corporation and defense contractor, formed by the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967. Between then and its own merger with Boeing in 1997, it produced well-known commercial and military aircraft, such as the DC-10 and the MD-80 airliners, the F-15 Eagle air superiority fighter, and the F/A-18 Hornet multirole fighter.
The Douglas Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later McDonnell Douglas.
The first Douglas DC-2 was ordered by KLM on March 28, 1934.
The piston-engined, propeller-driven Skyraider was designed during World War II
The Douglas SBD Dauntless is a World War II American naval scout plane and dive bomber.
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