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... Butler is the interviewer and is assisted by Kevin Rusnak. '''Hobokan:''' …John F. Yardley was McDonnell’s Aircraft Corporation kingpin at Cape Canaveral Florida . That’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ... to my secretary and I said, “Get me Walter Burke on the telephone from McDonnell." It was now McDonnell Astronautics in St. Louis. I said, “Get him on the phone. Tell him ... where we stopped the guys from pulling the instrumentation from us all the time, but McDonnell was getting tired supplying VCOs. We had voltage-controlled oscillators for instrumentation in those days ...

... then for the multiple bumper design, which was going to be used on the original McDonnell Douglas Space Station, Space Station Freedom. It’s now being used in various forms for ... get them in a minute. Space Station Freedom with McDonnell Douglas. Here again, it was a question of trying to—I worked with McDonnell Douglas while I was still at NASA, working ... external tankage, and it got to that point when another election occurred, and this time McDonnell Douglas was out and basically we got that new Space Station, the one that they ...

... dynamics involved. They had to just visualize this stuff. So the systems that the contractor, McDonnell, came up with were bulky, big, expensive, would have needed major modifications to the ships ... six weeks later that I heard through the grapevine that North American or Radioplane, under McDonnell's direction, were working on a backup parachute. Laughter And so the paraglider disappeared. It ...

... Center that was called a flight monitoring trailer. In conjunction with the Mercury spacecraft, the McDonnell Aircraft Company in St. Louis were building several trailers for checking the spacecraft out and ... there? How did that work? '''Aldrich:''' Well, because the contractor was the same, McDonnell, and we had these McDonnell people, we had Ed Neiman and Dana Boatman and several others in the ...

... successful spacecraft. Technically, it was very interesting and fascinating. '''Bergen:''' For Skylab, you went to McDonnell-Douglas Corp. to oversee the orbital workshop. '''Ewart:''' That's right. '''Bergen:''' As you mentioned ... year. Boeing is moving all their personnel from Downey to other facilities, Seal Beach, McDonnell-Douglas, what was McDonnell-Douglas-Huntington Beach, is now Boeing-Huntington Beach, and maybe to Anaheim, wherever ...

... later on when the contract was awarded to McDonnell, the McDonnell people did the aerodynamics, and we would cross-check stuff. The wind tunnel testing, McDonnell sent representatives out which would go with ... , I guess, in 1968, the company had to beat out Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, and McDonnell Douglas Corporation and Boeing Airplane Company were entries into the contracts, so if you won ...

... engineer for that test for that project. '''Johnson:''' Was that the F3-2N? '''Jackson:''' Yes. McDonnell F-3. The key there was the tail was configured so that it extended aft ... we actually flew people in. I did a lot of travel to St. Louis, Missouri, McDonnell Aircraft Company manufacturing site . '''Johnson:''' Can you talk about that travel? Because you were still ... at the time, there were four competing companies. Martin Marietta Corporation , Lockheed, Northrop Corporation , and McDonnell Douglas. Once a month we had to take a week trip. We’d go fly ...

... , how did that transfer into actually building the thing? '''Johnson:''' First off, McDonnell…—it was McDonnell Aircraft Corporation then—McDonnell, they were a very capable group of guys. They'd been building airplanes ... Gemini was going, and what Gemini was, was really exploiting the Mercury. It was with McDonnell, and there were some things that had been learned on Mercury that they decided, "Well ...

... couch configuration with parachute landing … They had chosen the Faget approach …had a contract with McDonnell to start work…on Mercury…I was brought into a meeting on the control system ... you pursue this …" Chamberlin starts to work on a program and starts to talk to McDonnell-Douglas and they start calling it Mercury Mark VII. Obviously, Mark VII is not a ... support out of IBM… The next step was… to have an integrating avionics contractor. Now, McDonnell really objected. "We've got our own work." …At least the first draft for a ...

... , Nov 19/85, B1) The 3M Corp. and McDonnell Douglas joined as a team to produce and market a proprietary drug that McDonnell Douglas produced on board the Space Shuttle to treat ... bring the drug to market a year sooner, while McDonnell Douglas believed space processing would be far more efficient and less costly. McDonnell Douglas was also completing arrangements with a French drug ...

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