On this day in aviation history, January 6, 1944, the McDonnell XP-67, the first design built by McDonnell Aircraft, took its first flight. Often considered one of the biggest “what-ifs” in ...

The XP-67 Moonbat One of James McDonnell's early concepts, the XP-67 Moonbat was a blended-wing-body design whose performance, thanks to anemic engines, was stamped FAIL. But get a load of the ...

In August 1943, as the newly formed McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was working on their first aircraft, the XP-67 “Moonbat”, the United States Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics requested that the ...