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

The MD-11, successor to the popular McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jet, had its first flight in January 1990, and this tri-jet promised a better future for the company, with the goal of leaving the DC-10's ...

McDonnell Douglas was only developing four planes, the MD-80, MD-90, MD-95, and MD-11. Meanwhile, Boeing had its contracts ...

Many plane spotters may remember the diverse and colorful fleet of a French airline called Air Liberté in the 1980s and 1990s ...

I still recall the awe that I felt when at 9 years old, I glanced the flight deck of a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 as I boarded the aircraft. The array of lights, buttons, switches, and gauges dazzled ...

Between 1994 and 1997, just 47 shorter-length Fokker 70 twinjet were delivered. The F70 had a shorter fuselage than the F100 ...

Later versions are based on the successful Boeing (McDonnell Douglas) MD-500/MD-530 series helicopters. The latest versions of these aircraft, the AH-6J attack helicopter and MH-6J insertion and ...

McDonnell Douglas was formed in April 1967 out of the merger between McDonnell Aircraft Corp. and The Douglas Co. By the time the company was acquired thirty years later by Boeing, its principal ...

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These wings are highly desirable for certain types of aircraft, as lift-to-drag ratio ... built on a shortened airframe from a McDonnell Douglas MD-90, and will be tested at the NASA Armstrong ...

Patrick J. McDonnell is the Los Angeles Times Mexico City bureau chief and a foreign correspondent. Previously, he was bureau chief in Beirut, covering conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Libya and ...

**Dr. McDonnell is accepting graduate students for the 2025-2026 year. McDonnell, C.G., Boan, A.D., Bradley, C.C., Seay, K.D., Charles, J., & Carpenter, L.A. (2019 ...