Douglas Aircraft Company

The Douglas Aircraft Company is a aeronautical Constructeur American.

History

Douglas Aircraft Company was rested by Donald Wills Douglas in July 1921, just after the dissolution of the Davis-Douglas Company. The first exploit was the first round the world tour in the plane with one of the Douglas plane as of 1924.

That was a very good publicity campaign for the series of commercial planes “cd.”, included/understood there for the very famous DC-3, whose military version was known under the name of C-47 '' Skytrain ''. Douglas created a large variety of planes for the armies of the the United States, and mainly for the Navy.

The company built at the beginning of the Torpille S for the U.S. Navy, and also developed at the same time a great number of observation aircrafts and their commercial copies. After five years, the company manufactured already more than 100 planes per annum. Among the first employees at Douglas, there was Edward Heinemann, James Kindelberger, and John Northrop. The company continued the military market and increased its production of amphibious flying equipments towards the end of the Années 1920, and also moved its equipment with Santa Monica. Towards the end of the Second world war, Douglas had factories with Santa Monica, El Segundo, Long Beach and Torrance in California, Tulsa and Midwest City in the Oklahoma and finally with Chicago in the Illinois.

In 1934 Douglas produced a commercial conveyer with two engines, DC-2, followed by famous DC-3 in 1936. Douglas an important type of different apparatus produced, by including airliners, light and average bombers, hunters, transport aircraft and observation and finally experimental planes. At the same time as its own models, Douglas also manufactured bombers Boeing B-17 and B-47 under license for USAAF. Douglas was also a pioneer with regard to the ejector seats, the bombs and their supports, the air-to-air, ground-to-air and air-to-ground missiles as well as the vehicles of launchings of ground-to-air missiles and ground-to-ground.

In 1967, the company had evil to answer the strong demand of the airliners DC-8 and DC-9 like with the pressures of the army on the A-4 Skyhawk. The problems involved in the self-financing combined with those due to the War of Vietnam, carried out Douglas to accept fusion with McDonnell Aircraft Corporation in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas. McDonnell Douglas was acquired by the company Boeing in 1997, putting fine at more than 75 years of production of planes by Douglas. The last plane resulting from a model the Douglas one, the Boeing 717 (derivative of the DC-9) sees its production stopped in 2006.

Planes produced by Douglas (alphabetical list)

Missiles

  • Sparrow I

  • AIR-2 Genius
  • Nike Ajax
  • Nike Hercules
  • Delta (Rocket)

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