The aircraft earned a reputation for being difficult to land, but that did not fully ground it.

Surprising facts about the MD-11's iconic rear engine and how it breaks from trijet tradition.

It may take years before we know the full story of what happened when a UPS Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-11 suffered a catastrophic failure on takeoff from Louisville Muhammad Ali International ...

A set of hard-working airplanes with a colorful nickname, “Mad Dogs,” have earned a long afterlife for the name McDonnell Douglas, an aircraft maker that disappeared in a 1997 merger. But on Tuesday, ...

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When Samaritan’s Purse retired its McDonnell Douglas DC-8 freighter N782SP after a final humanitarian mission to Jamaica in late 2025, aviation lost more than just another aging cargo aircraft. The ...

Delta retired the last of its McDonnell Douglas aircraft Tuesday after carrying more than 750 million passengers on MD-88 and MD-90 aircraft. The last MD-88 flight, appropriately named Delta Flight 88 ...

The YF-23 Black Widow II was a fifth-generation fighter jet that ticked all the right boxes: stealth, speed, supercruise, ...

Donald A. Gerds was a senior concept interior designer for Douglas Aircraft Company who worked on the DC series of aircraft. This collection consists of approximately 1.74 cubic feet of material ...

Sanford Noyes "Sandy" McDonnell -- an engineer, businessman and philanthropist -- was CEO and then chairman of the board of McDonnell Douglas Corp., one of the country's largest aircraft manufacturers ...