While high wing loading benefits cruise performance and reduces turbulence sensitivity, it forces a very narrow landing ...
According to the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the MD-11 demonstrated the highest rate of hard landing ...
The FAA has issued an emergency directive for all MD-10s and DC-10s to be grounded due to similarities with the UPS MD-11 ...
For generations, the James S. McDonnell Foundation has been a leader in global research support and philanthropy. Its impact has reached all corners of the world since its creation in 1950 by James ...
The space history hangar at the National Air and Space Museum annex in Northern Virginia will be named after aviation pioneer James S. McDonnell, Smithsonian Institution officials said. The James S.
UPS and FedEx are temporarily grounding all of their McDonnell Douglas MD-11 cargo aircraft, following Tuesday’s plane crash ...
When James Smith McDonnell decided in 1939 at the age of 40 to start his own planemaking company, scoffers told him he was foolish because the aircraft industry was “overcrowded.” He quit as chief ...
Fatigue cracks in part of the aircraft’s left engine pylon assembly have emerged as a key factor in the Nov. 4 fatal crash of a UPS McDonnell-Douglas MD-11 Freighter (MD-11F). Investigators found ...
(AP) Sanford “Sandy” McDonnell, a former Boy Scout who went on to work on the first atomic bomb before heading aerospace behemoth McDonnell Douglas Corp., has died, according to Boeing Co., which ...
On a freezing December night in 1928, a weird-looking little monoplane called “the Doodlebug” took off from a Milwaukee airfield and headed hopefully in the general direction of New York City.