the first design built by McDonnell Aircraft, took its first flight. Often considered one of the biggest “what-ifs” in American aviation history, the XP-67, often nicknamed the “Bat” or ...

Moments later, 22,000 workers at the McDonnell Aircraft plant laid down their slide rules and wrenches to hear the boss’s long-distance words piped over the public-address system. Said James ...

McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor, producing a number of famous commercial and military aircraft. It formed from a merger of McDonnell Aircraft ...