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

The F/A-18 Hornet is one of the most iconic and versatile combat aircraft in modern naval aviation. Developed by Northrop and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Of his original $200,000, McDonnell did get $10,000 from Laurance Rockefeller. Later, Laurance and his family (TIME, Jan. 31, 1949) increased their investment in McDonnell Aircraft to $475,000 ...

Gift of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation. Long Description McDonnell XV-1 Convertiplane Early helicopter engineers soon realized that retreating blade-stall would greatly limit the maximum forward speed ...

Sanford was the nephew of McDonnell Aircraft founder James McDonnell and served as CEO from 1972 until becoming chairman eight years later, after his uncle’s death. He retired in 1988.

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. It was ...