In the 1990s, a McDonnell-Douglas Vice-President explained to us that the proximate cause of his company's demise in commercial aircraft was the Boeing contract ...
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Feb 1, 2021 · The fact that Boeing and McDonnell Douglas merged in 1997 under the Boeing name does not mean that McDonnell Douglas planes stopped being made.
Jun 7, 2005 · Why did McDonnell Douglas go under? I have heard (please correct me if I am wrong) that they had lucrative military contracts (which caused ...
In August 1983, McDonnell Douglas announced that production would end due to a lack of orders, as it had widespread public apprehension after the 1979 crash and ...
Short answer: McDonnell-Douglas failed to perform the fixed-price A-12 Navy stealth bomber contract—-a deal they never should have made. Trying to R&D a cutting ...
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Oct 31, 2020 · I know little about the McDonnell Douglas aquisition except that afterwards Boeing's focus and it's relationship to its workforce changed.
The role of McDonnell-Douglas is exaggerated. Boeing had achieved pretty close to a monopoly in the mid-1970s, but things had changed by the mid-1990s.
Also contributing to the accident was the absence of a fail-safe mechanism on the MD-83 horizontal stabilizer jackscrew trim system to prevent the catastrophic ...
The actual story of the 737 Max crash begins with that McDonnell-Douglas purchase in 1997, 21 years before the first accident in late 2018. Unfortunately, media ...