7 World Airlines That Still Operate MD-80 Planes
According to current scheduling data made available by Cirium, an aviation analytics company, seven airlines around the world ...
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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the McDonnell FH Phantom
The first purely jet-powered aircraft flown off of American aircraft carriers, and the first jet aircraft flown by the United ...
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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the McDonnell XP-67 Moonbat
the first design built by McDonnell Aircraft, took its first flight. Often considered one of the biggest “what-ifs” in American aviation history, the XP-67, often nicknamed the “Bat” or ...
I'm a pilot flying a DC-10 fire bomber to battle the LA fires. This is what I've seen — and this is what needs to stop.
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 ...
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AVIATION: Payoff for Pioneers
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 ...
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On this date: NASA selects developer of Mercury spacecraft
On January 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 ...