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 ...

While the XP-67 itself never went beyond the prototype stage, it would pave the way for subsequent designs from McDonnell that would make the company a known quantity among aircraft procurers.

The coveted Government contract for the first space capsule designed to carry a man into orbit around the earth (see SCIENCE) went last week to St. Louis’ McDonnell Aircraft Corp. The contract ...

I'm a third-generation firefighter — and I'm helping to battle the LA fires from the air in a DC-10 fire bomber. Here's how we do it.

Contractor: Boeing Aircraft Corporation (formerly the McDonnell Douglas Corporation). Service: USN, USMC Speed: 565 mph (Mach 0.86/904 km/h) at 25,000 feet ( 7.500 meters), with maximum takeoff ...

On Jan. 9, 1959, NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry the first American astronauts into space, Alan Shepard and Virgil “Gus” ...