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  McDonnell Douglas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Douglas continued to develop new aircraft, including the successful four-engined DC-6 (1946) and their last prop-driven commercial aircraft, the DC-7 (1953).
Both companies were eager to enter the new missile business, Douglas moving from producing air-to-air rockets and missiles to entire missile systems under the 1956 Nike program and becoming the main contractor of the Skybolt ALBM program and the Thor ballistic missile program.
Douglas was strained by the cost of the DC-8 and DC-9, and the companies began to sound each other out about a merger.
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 Douglas Aircraft Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is most famous for the "DC" series of commercial aircraft, including what is often regarded as the most significant transport aircraft ever made: the DC-3, which was also produced as a military transport known as the C-47 Skytrain.
Douglas created a wide variety of aircraft for the United States armed forces, the Navy in particular.
Douglas was a pioneer in related fields, such as ejection seats, air-to-air, surface-to-air, and air-to-surface missiles, launch vehicles, bombs and bomb racks.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Douglas_Aircraft_Company   (392 words)

  
 PBS - Chasing the Sun - Douglas Aircraft
Douglas purchased the abandoned lot of the Herman Film Corporation and based his company - newly re-named the Douglas Aircraft Company - in Santa Monica, California.
The Douglas DC-1, DC-2 and DC-3 were the most innovative planes of their era.
Douglas ended up having to split the domestic airline market for mid-range widebodies with its competitor, Lockheed, which produced the similar L-1011.
www.pbs.org /kcet/chasingthesun/companies/douglas.html   (771 words)

  
 DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT COMPANY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Douglas baute die berühmte Flugzeugreihe "DC", mit deren bekanntesten Vertreterin DC-3.
Douglas begann mit Luft-Luft-Raketen, baute dann komplette Raktetensysteme (1956 das Nike-Programm) und wurde später Hauptauftragnehmer des Skybolt ALBM und des Thor Raketenprogramms.
Douglas konnte sogar Aufträge von der NASA akqurieren, vor allem für Teile der Saturn V Rakete.
www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/D/Douglas_Aircraft_Company   (268 words)

  
 Douglas Aircraft Company - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It is most famous for the "DC" series of commercial aircraft, including what is often regarded as the most significant transport aircraft ever made, the DC-3.
Douglas also created many aircraft for the United States armed forces, the Navy in particular.
In 1967, the company was merged with McDonnell Aircraft Company to form McDonnell Douglas, which in 1997 became a part of the Boeing Company.
en.freepedia.org /index.php?title=Douglas_Aircraft_Company&printable=yes   (229 words)

  
 ComPilots.com - Aviation Portal - Son of Douglas Aircraft founder dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Donald W. Douglas Jr., who as president of Douglas Aircraft Co., introduced the DC-8 airliner and brought the aircraft manufacturer into the jet age, has died.
Douglas was named president of the company in 1957, a year before the DC-8 was introduced.
Douglas later was appointed director of the testing division and under his direction the DC-6 and DC-7 airliners were certified.
www.compilots.com /print_article696.html   (159 words)

  
 Los Angeles Business Journal: Douglas Aircraft expands ties with China; coproduction agreements may help tap huge Asian ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Douglas Aircraft Co., which already boasts of more facilities in China than any other U.S. manufacturer, is expanding its ties to that country, a move potentially worth billions of dollars in new commercial airline business, company officials said.
Douglas Aircraft officials have said that the Long Beach facility is operating at full capacity producing the MD-11, MD-80 and C-17 (a military cargo plane) aircraft.
Douglas Aircraft is a final assembly plant for commercial aircraft and large military planes.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_n25_v13/ai_11054710   (925 words)

  
 Douglas R4D Gooneybird, by Jack McKillop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Douglas designed a new aircraft that had a wider fuselage, was longer, had a larger wing accommodating more fuel and more powerful engines.
This new aircraft was the Douglas Sleeper Transport (DST).
Unlike the R4D-1, these aircraft were troop transports and as such had (1) a normal wooden floor instead of a reinforced metal floor, (2) a 26-inch (66.04 cm) wide door instead of the large cargo door, and (3) fixed metal seats for 28 fully-armed paratroopers.
www.microworks.net /pacific/aviation/r4d_gooneybird.htm   (3139 words)

  
 Douglas Aircraft
Douglas left Martin in 1916 when the company merged with the Wright Company and moved to the eastern United States.
Douglas was particularly bothered that automobile executives with no experience in the aviation business were running aircraft production during the war.
The DT-2 also was the first Douglas aircraft constructed under license by a foreign manufacturer—by the Norwegian government and later by Peru's navy.
www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/Douglas-early/Aero26.htm   (1191 words)

  
 Los Angeles Business Journal: Douglas Aircraft's bonds with the Chinese hit a patch of turbulence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Douglas Aircraft Co.'s long-running and expansive relationship with China has hit a speed bump, resulting in the termination of talks on at least one possible joint manufacturing program.
Douglas began talking to Chinese officials 19 years ago and in 1979 signed its first deal for Chinese workers to make landing gear doors for Douglas aircraft.
The changed relationship between Douglas and China came to the forefront following a recent trip to China by John McDonnell, chairman of McDonnell Douglas Corp. That company is the parent of Douglas Aircraft, which produces commercial aircraft in Long Beach.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_n31_v16/ai_15693479   (892 words)

  
 Aircraft Hangar - Douglas A1D Skyraider   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Douglas' response to the Navy's request for a replacement for the SBD Dauntless was the odd and akward-looking XSB2D, of which there was a tricycle gear and a conventional gear model.
In the summer of 1944, the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics called in several aircraft manufactures to hear what the status of their dive bomber projects were.
The committee agreed to allow Douglas to submit the new proposal but it was to use the R-3350 engine and they wanted to see it 9AM the next day.
www.hammerheadpilotgear.com /Hanger/Hanger_Skyraider.htm   (643 words)

  
 Donald W   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When Douglas arrived in 1915, Los Angeles was already on its way to becoming the aviation capital of the U.S. Five years earlier, the nation’s first international air meet was held at Dominguez Field near Wilmington.
Douglas remained active in the aerospace community after his retirement, and was greatly honored during his lifetime.
Douglas died on February 1, 1981, at the age of 88.
www.socalhistory.org /Biographies/ddouglas.htm   (2260 words)

  
 Douglas Aircraft
Donald Douglas got his start in aviation working for the Glenn L. Martin Co. in 1915.
Douglas continued after World War II with a dominant series of commercial aircraft.
Douglas Aircraft was acquired by McDonnell in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas.
www.shanaberger.com /douglas.htm   (127 words)

  
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But the A-5, one of the biggest aircraft ever operated from a carrier, was not successful in its intended role as nuclear bomber, It has been claimed that the bomb ejection mechanism was unsatisfactory.
A-26 Invader, Douglas (S-USA-A-B-HN-N-ARW2) The A-26 was a twin-engined bomber and attack aircraft.
B-87, Douglas The Skybolt missile, a air-launched ballistic missile that was cancelled in 1961.
users.skynet.be /Emmanuel.Gustin/faq/us_mil.txt   (15342 words)

  
 AeroWorldNet - Farnborough Today's Headlines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
McDonnell Douglas President and CEO Harry Stonecipher presented a stoic posture during a press conference at today's Farnborough Int'l Air Show.
Douglas also wants to produce more aircraft in the 100-150 seat class, with the re-winged MD-90 leading the way.
While all that may be true, this particular horse is still slow to the gate and despite the pronouncements of its jockey, it may not be in a photofinish anytime soon.
www.aeroworldnet.com /fth2.htm   (457 words)

  
 R4D-6 Goony Bird   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In this program the FM outfitted each aircraft with electronics in a standardized manner and assigned them to various regions of the United States to perform airway facility flight checks and to check the various beacons and instrument landing systems within the assigned areas.
In 1976, the aircraft was again surplus and was transferred to the USDA at Douglas, AZ., for use in their screw worm eradication program.
The aircraft had not been painted nor had the interior been installed; however, several seats had been fitted to allow those then new members who helped make the restoration a reality to participate.
www.maam.org /r4d.html   (1149 words)

  
 McDonnell Douglas Intranet Profile
McDonnell Douglas's commercial aircraft manufacturing division, Douglas Aircraft, is using Netscape and the World Wide Web to build a system to distribute aircraft service bulletins to their customers around the world.
Based in Long Beach, California, the 11,000-person Douglas Aircraft Company, a division of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, builds airplanes for over 200 airlines around the world.
Douglas Aircraft runs Netscape's Commerce Server on a Hewlett-Packard HP 9000 Model 800 E Unix server.
wp.netscape.com /comprod/at_work/customer_profiles/mcdonnell.html   (1079 words)

  
 Douglas VC-54C "Sacred Cow"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
After encountering difficulties with converting a C-87A transport, the USAAF arranged with Douglas Aircraft to construct a new transport aircraft specifically for presidential use.
Nicknamed the Sacred Cow, this VC-54C became the first military aircraft to transport a president of the United States when President Roosevelt took it to the USSR for the Yalta Conference in February 1945.
The first purpose-built aircraft to fly the president of the United States, the Sacred Cow is the only VC-54C ever constructed.
www.wpafb.af.mil /museum/annex/an27.htm   (417 words)

  
 Douglas Aircraft Company Specimen - RARE
The aircraft was designed to fly non-stop coast-to-coast, did not complete the flight but was the first aircraft to lift a load exceeding its own weight.
Douglas leased the abandoned buildings of the Herman Film Corporation at 2345 Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica, California, where he built the Douglas World Cruiser.
The leased plants were closed at the end of the war, but Douglas continued to produce commercial and military transports, jet fighters, missiles and rockets.
www.scripophily.net /dougaircomsp.html   (500 words)

  
 USN Aircraft--Douglas TBD-1
Old and slow, with a weak defensive armament and without self-sealing fuel tanks, the TBD had proven horribly vulnerable to enemy fighters, though this vulnerability was to a great extent typical of all torpedo attacks against well-defended ships.
With the 1941 adoption of "popular" names for Navy aircraft, the TBD began to be called the "Devastator", but for most of its operational life, it was just known as the TBD-1.
This aircraft, Bureau # 0322, was lost in an accident at sea on about 10 March 1939.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/ac-usn22/t-types/tbd.htm   (1052 words)

  
 DOUGLAS C-47D "SKYTRAIN"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Few aircraft are as well known or were so widely used for so long as the C-47 or "Gooney Bird" as it was affectionately nicknamed.
The aircraft was adapted from the DC-3 commercial airliner which appeared in 1936.
The first C-47s were ordered in 1940 and by the end of WW II, 9,348 had been procured for AAF use.
www.wpafb.af.mil /museum/modern_flight/mf3.htm   (200 words)

  
 Aircraft: McDonnell-Douglas F-4E Phantom II
Aircraft: McDonnell-Douglas F-4E Phantom II McDonnell-Douglas F-4E Phantom II
F-4E's were also flown as aircraft known as Wild Weasels and were active in the Persian Gulf War.
Manufactured by McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft, in St. Louis, MO and gained by the United States Air Force on May 9 1969.
www.marchfield.org /f4e.htm   (410 words)

  
 McDonnell Aircraft Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer based near St.
It was founded in 1938 by James Smith McDonnell and merged McDonnell Douglas in 1967.
The advent of war was a major to the new company from fifteen employees 1938 the firm ended the war with 5 000 a significant producer of aircraft
www.freeglossary.com /McDonnell_Aircraft_Corporation   (90 words)

  
 McDonnell Douglas DC8-mixed specifications and plane history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The corporation was created in 1967 with the merger of the McDonnell Company of St. Louis and the Douglas Aircraft Company of Southern California.
Located in Long Beach, the Douglas Aircraft Company is the commercial aircraft componant of the McDonnell Douglas Corporation.
It was founded in 1920 by Donald W. Douglas, and has since delivered more than 45,000 aircraft, including the long line of Douglas Commercial (DC) and McDonnell Douglas (MD) models.
www.flyaow.com /planes/d8maircraftspecifications.htm   (111 words)

  
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 Aircraft Nicknames   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A rather ugly and clumsy twin-engined, twin-tail aircraft.
This was the codename for the installation of the six-barrel 20mm Vulcan cannon in the F-106.
It was later applied to the converted aircraft as well.
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 R4D
In December 1979 the aircraft was at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan.
The aircraft was pushed out on the ice to drift away and sink.
The aircraft which went down in Jan/Feb 66 was a 47 and it caught a wing tip on landing.
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 Aircraft: Douglas A-1E Skyraider
Foley, AL This plane was the workhorse of the attack aircraft used in Vietnam.
As a reconnaisance team leader with the Army's Special Forces, my job was to locate enemy troop formations and keep them under continuous air attack until a ground force could be brought into the area that had sufficient men and arms to kill the infiltrating NVA troops.
What a great aircraft the A1-E was when flown by the wonderful pilots who stepped down from their jets to fly the aircraft that was right for ground support (TacAir).
aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu /specs/douglas/a-1e.htm   (375 words)

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