The company's aim with the MD-11 was an attempt to revitalize its commercial aircraft fleet. But, of course, actually designing and building the MD-11s was not an easy task. McDonnell Douglas was ...

The DC-9 was able to fly as fast as bigger aircraft, which had longer ranges, and fly at higher altitudes. Additionally, it ...

A name nobody hears nearly as frequently these days is McDonnell Douglas, an aircraft manufacturer that was once just as big ...

McDonnell Douglas, Rockwell's aerospace and defense units, Hughes' space and communications units, Aviall, and KLK are five ...

Perhaps one of the most iconic passenger planes ever built was the four-engined Boeing 747. The plane was a huge success for ...

The United States Marine Corps will retire the last of its McDonnell Douglas AV-8B+ Harrier II fighters in just under two ...

Based on the (Hughes) McDonnell Douglas MD369, the MH-6 Little Bird and its attack variant AH-6 carries three commandos on bench seats mounted to the side doors of the helicopter. The Little Bird ...

After the latter team dropped out in 1988, McDonnell Douglas/General Dynamics was selected to develop the new aircraft. The warning lights should have gone off – but the efforts continued.

Yoffie, David B. "Collision Course in Commercial Aircraft: Boeing-Airbus-McDonnell Douglas--1991 (A) & New Theories of International Trade, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note ...

The military vehicle aficionados out there may know that while the Apache is currently a product of Boeing, it was originally designed by Hughes Helicopter. In 1984, McDonnell Douglas purchased ...

True, the company had been struggling with profitability since the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft, but its decision to address profitability by utilizing top-down managerial ...