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    The McDonnell XV-1 is an experimental Convertiplane developed by McDonnell Aircraft for a joint research program between the United States Air Force and...
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  • It was based at McDonnell's facility in St. Louis, with James McDonnell as chairman and CEO. In 1967, with the merger of McDonnell and Douglas Aircraft...
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    officials at the United States Navy were impressed with McDonnell's audacious XP-67 Bat project. McDonnell was invited by the navy to cooperate in the development...
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  • could begin. Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era McDonnell XV-1 Bell XV-3 Sikorsky X-Wing Citations Boyne 1984, p.178. Sikorsky 2007, p...
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    group in the Middle East. In 1952, McDonnell's Chief of Aerodynamics, Dave Lewis, was appointed by CEO Jim McDonnell to be the company's preliminary design...
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  • McDonnell Douglas Corporation was a major American aerospace manufacturing corporation and defense contractor, formed by the merger of McDonnell Aircraft...
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  • an intended improvement of helicopters, but the experimental McDonnell XV-1 and Bell XV-3 did not enter production. The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor...
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    joined the American aircraft manufacturer McDonnell Aircraft, which developed and flew the McDonnell XV-1, an experimental compound gyroplane, during...
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    The McDonnell F2H Banshee (company designation McDonnell Model 24) is a single-seat carrier-based jet fighter aircraft designed and produced by the American...
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    The McDonnell F3H Demon is a subsonic swept-wing carrier-based jet fighter aircraft designed and produced by the American manufacturer McDonnell Aircraft...
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    The United Kingdom (UK) operated the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II as one of its principal combat aircraft from 1968 to 1992. The UK was the first...
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    Fairey FB-1 Gyrodyne Fairey Jet Gyrodyne Fairey Rotodyne (1957) Flettner Fl 185 Kamov Ka-22 (1959) Kayaba Heliplane (Japan) McDonnell XV-1 Rotorcraft...
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    The McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet (official military designation CF-188) is a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) variant of the American McDonnell Douglas...
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    US Air Force was investigating fast VTOL aircraft. McDonnell developed what became the McDonnell XV-1, the first of the V-designated types, which flew in...
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    The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is an American twin-engine, all-weather fighter aircraft designed by McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing). Following...
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    The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is an all-weather supersonic, twin-engine, carrier-capable, multirole combat aircraft, designed as both a fighter...
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    2006 Bibliography Allen, Francis J. (Spring 1993). "The McDonnell XV-1". AAHS Journal. 38 (1). Huntington Beach, CA: American Aviation Historical Society...
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    Koolhoven F.K.56 Lockheed Model 12B Electra Junior McDonnell XV-1 Messerschmitt M 18 Noorduyn Norseman Mk.1 North American BT-9 North American NA-57 North...
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    American aerospace manufacturer Douglas Aircraft Company, and later, McDonnell Douglas. It was originally designated A4D under the United States Navy's...
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    The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) T-45 Goshawk is a highly modified version of the British BAE Systems Hawk land-based training jet aircraft. Manufactured...
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    The McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems MD 500 Defender is a light multi-role military helicopter based on the MD 500 light utility helicopter and OH-6...
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    120 kn) Related development Fairey FB-1 Gyrodyne Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era McDonnell XV-1 Related lists List of rotorcraft "Fairey...
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    Apache McDonnell Douglas AH-64 Apache Boeing–Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche Other notable aircraft McDonnell XV-1 Convertiplane Ryan XV-5B Vertifan Hawker XV-6A...
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  • compressed air tip jets on the McDonnell XH-20 Little Henry, the cancelled McDonnell 79 Big Henry and the McDonnell XV-1 high-speed compound helicopter...
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    The McDonnell 119/220 is a business jet developed and unsuccessfully marketed by McDonnell Aircraft in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Its configuration...
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  • McDonnell RF-101C Voodoo – nose only McDonnell XHJD-1 Whirlaway McDonnell XV-1 McDonnell F-4A Phantom II Sageburner Messerschmitt Me 410 A-3/U1 Mitsubishi...
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  • The McDonnell XHCH (Model 86) was a 1950s aerial crane helicopter proposal for the United States Navy by the McDonnell Corporation. The XHCH was developed...
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  • Lockheed XH-51 Manzolini Libellula SKYe SH09 MATRA-Cantinieau MC-101 McCulloch J-2 McDonnell XV-1 MD 500 MD 500 Defender MD 600 MD Explorer MH-6 Little Bird...
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    The McDonnell XHJH Whirlaway, aka McDonnell Model 37, was a 1940s American experimental transverse-rotor helicopter designed and built by McDonnell Aircraft...
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    The McDonnell Douglas (later Boeing) X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft was an American stealthy subscale prototype jet designed to fly without...
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