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Burns & McDonnell is an American multinational construction, architecture and engineering firm based in Kansas City, Missouri, and has 100% employee stock ownership.It was established in 1898 by engineers Clinton Sumner Burns and Robert Emmett McDonnell.
Clinton Sumner Burns (1871–1924) was a prominent civil engineer and business executive who, with Robert Emmett McDonnell, a classmate at Stanford University formed an engineering company under the firm name of Burns & McDonnell.
[45] [55] McDonnell Douglas built only a small wind tunnel test model. [56] [57] At its peak in mid-1990, McDonnell Douglas employed 132,500 people, but dropped to about 87,400 by the end of 1992. [58] In 1991, the MD-11 was not quite a success; ongoing tests of the MD-11 revealed a significant shortfall in the aircraft's performance.
The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer based in St. Louis, Missouri.The company was founded on July 6, 1939, by James Smith McDonnell, and was best known for its military fighters, including the F-4 Phantom II, and crewed spacecraft including the Mercury capsule and Gemini capsule.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1938, McDonnell is the son of McDonnell Aircraft founder James Smith McDonnell and Mary Elizabeth Finney. [citation needed] A graduate of St. Louis Country Day School (now Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School), McDonnell completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in aeronautical engineering at Princeton University in 1960 and 1962, respectively.
James Smith "Mac" McDonnell (April 9, 1899 – August 22, 1980) was an American aviator, engineer, and businessman. He was an aviation pioneer and founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, later McDonnell Douglas (which is now Boeing, after the latter's company merger in 1997), and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
Among her more recent collaborations with Burns have been The War (2007), Baseball: The Tenth Inning (2010), and Prohibition (2011). [3] Her next collaboration was an 18-hour documentary film series, The Vietnam War, with Burns and Geoffrey Ward, which aired in September 2017. [4] In 2019, her four-part series College Behind Bars, was broadcast ...
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