Never in the history of commercial aircraft manufacturing has a company squandered so many opportunities as much as McDonnell Douglas did over the concept of a wide-body twin-engine aircraft. There is little doubt if it had launched such an aircraft, back in 1973, it would still be in business today. Over a period of just […]
David S. Lewis could have made McDonnell Douglas the world’s leader in aerospace but incredibly shortsighted decisions by the late James McDonnell sent the corporation into decades of indecision and finally a merger with Boeing. The merger between the McDonnell Aircraft Company and the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967 should have been the aviation merger […]