One McDonnell Douglas aircraft outpaced all others in popularity.

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With both engines buried in the aft fuselage section, the nose and cabin of the Douglas Cloudster II were voluminous. Whitewall tires added a touch of style. [Courtesy: Douglas Aircraft Company] For a ...

At a time when the rest of the aerospace industry is thriving on rising demands for commercial and military planes and other sinews of the Viet Nam war, Santa Monica-based Douglas Aircraft Co. has run ...

A raucous and appreciative crowd of more than 200,000 gathered at Clover Park to welcome home the first planes to travel around the world. The planes were designed by Santa Monica-based Douglas ...

Among the world’s plane builders, Douglas Aircraft was long the blue chip; its series of DC planes were the workhorses that hauled the biggest percentage of the world’s air travelers. But last week ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The A-20 brought havoc to the enemy. During the Second World War, the Douglas Aircraft Company produced several important aircraft, and today the SBD Dauntless... During ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Donald A. Gerds was a senior concept interior designer for Douglas Aircraft Company who worked on the DC series of aircraft. This collection ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. With the successful crossings of the Atlantic in 1919 by the U.S. Navy's NC-4 and Alcock and Brown in a Vickers Vimy, ...

Legendary aircraft manufacturer Donald Douglas had already designed a groundbreaking World War I bomber when he began manufacturing military planes in an abandoned movie studio in the fields of Santa ...