Donald W. Douglas Jr., a former president of Douglas Aircraft Co. who was responsible for the introduction of the DC-8 and DC-9 jetliners, has died. He was 87. Douglas, a son of the company’s ...

Douglas Aircraft Company began development of the Douglas Commercial Series with the DC-1 and the DC-2 prior to evolving the model into the DC-3—which would ... Donald W. Douglas (1892-1981) ...

Courtesy Bill Wasserzieher. His name is synonymous with transport aircraft, and Donald Wills Douglas built some beauties: the 12-passenger, all-metal DC-1; the DC-2, for which Douglas was awarded ...

Although Douglas Aircraft is his own one-man show, he now owns less than 1% of 600,000 outstanding shares—compared to the 200,000 shares he was given when the present company was incorporated in ...

The name was familiar, if not the proletarian sentiment. There at a United Aerospace Workers luncheon stood Donald Douglas Jr., head of one of the two founding families of McDonnell Douglas Corp., … ...

During 1966, says President Donald Douglas Jr., “the company’s earnings, if any, will be nominal.” For the first half of Douglas’ 1966 fiscal year, through May, profits have been nominal ...

Douglas Aircraft Company was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas Sr. in Santa Monica, California. It built a wide variety of aircraft for the US military, ranking fifth among United States ...

On a hot afternoon in August 1945, the voice of Donald Douglas boomed over loudspeakers in the cavernous assembly buildings of the Douglas Aircraft Corporation at California’s Santa Monica Airport.

The DC-3 was the result of a lengthy telephone call between Smith and Donald Douglas. Smith wanted a new aircraft; and according to the Museum of Flight, what he sought was an airplane that ...