When Boeing and Airbus found success with widebody designs, McDonnell Douglas attempted to follow suit, designing a double-decker plane, the MD-12 -- but no airlines placed an order.

The program began in the mid-1990s as a part of a partnership between NASA and McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) at the latter’s “ Phantom Works.” Two unmanned X-36 aircraft were produced, and ...

The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) F-15E Strike Eagle is a supersonic all-weather multirole twin-seat strike fighter derived from a supersonic twin-engined air superiority fighter, the McDonnell ...

In the mid-’90s, NASA and McDonnell Douglas (later Boeing) teamed up to try to bridge the gap between the stealth capabilities of flying-wing designs like the B-2 and aerobatic fighters like the ...

The news took over the front page on Dec. 16, 1996 — "Boeing swallows Mac" — as the Post-Dispatch covered the announcement of the merger of McDonnell Douglas Corp. and Boeing.

The X-66 is built off a McDonnell Douglas MD-90, delivered by Boeing for modifications in August 2023.

When the X-66 launched in 2023, Boeing outlined a possible “Vision System” family of McDonnell Douglas MD-90-based transonic truss-braced-wing narrowbodies, with the smaller version to seat ...

The MD-11, successor to the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jet, promised a better future for the company. But things didn't go as planned after its first flight.

McDonnell Douglas influenced Boeing's culture Established in Seattle in 1916, Boeing was initially an engineering-centric firm specializing in the design, manufacture, and sale of airplanes.

Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, McDonnell-Douglas was struggling to secure contracts for the production of tactical military jets.