This year's Royal International Air Tattoo 2025 will see an incredible variety of aircraft soaring through the skies and ...

Proving to be one of the most flexible transport aircraft in United States Air Force history, the McDonnell Douglas/Boeing ...

The James S. McDonnell Foundation has donated $3 million to organizations helping north St. Louis recover from the May 16 ...

The finished Phantom served as proof of concept that a jet could indeed operate from an aircraft carrier. Yet the Phantom itself underperformed.

Object Details Manufacturer McDonnell Aircraft Corp. Summary Rotor Diameter: 9.5m (31 ft) Wingspan: 7.9 m (26 ft) Length: 9.1 m (30 ft) Height: 3.3 m (10 ft 9 in) Weights: Empty, 1,940 kg (4,277 lb) ...

McDonnell Aircraft Corporation’s F-4 Phantom was quickly becoming the do-all fighter by the mid 1960s, able to lug thousands of pounds of bombs on one mission and then strictly air-to-air ...

But Mac McDonnell put “M.A.C.” (as he calls McDonnell Aircraft) on its feet through his own talent for design, production know-how and sharp eye for cost-cutting.

Designed primarily to defend the gigantic Convair B-36 and Northrop’s planed B-35 flying wing bomber, the XF-85 project began with two prototypes in 1947 built by McDonnell Aircraft.

Later that year McDonnell Aircraft finished its pioneering work on the moon space program and another company took over—at a price NASA can never repay. Reconstructed from interviews with former ...

Sanford "Sandy" McDonnell was the former chief executive of aerospace giant McDonnell Douglas Corp. who in the 1970s helped turn around the company started by his uncle.