Aviation Reference Blog

[Scott K]

From a post on the Yahoo Space Modelers group; Aviation Archives

The blog of a retired McDonnel Aircraft engineer. Here's his intro;

About Me

My name is Ron Downey. I am a retired Aeronautical Engineer who worked for McDonnell Aircraft and McDonnell Douglas Corp for 40 years and collected many photos, info and brochures of their products. While the F-4 is my favorite, I have many other MDC items and these will be scanned and presented here. In addition, I have been an aviation historian for most of my adult life and I have amassed a large amount of info over my 50+ years of collecting and will be bringing that here also. My aim is to bring aviation material visually to this blog before it is lost; but, not in-depth explanations as any good search engine can be used for that purpose. I may be contacted at: aviationarchives(at)gmail.com

Be prepared to get lost in there for a while!

Scott K.

[John Bowden]

Cool! Thanks for the link..........

The article on the F-101B will serve me well real soon.......(hint hint)

[Gil]

Thanks for posting Scott.

An excellent resource especially for Phantomphiliacs...,

-Gil

[Scott K]

You're welcome! I just found something surprising on it myself. Most of have seen the Mercury capsule paper model released by McDonnel during the Mercury program, but they also released several F-4 profile gliders as well, here; Aviation Archives

Imagine an American company actually doing that today.

Scott K.