Reminiscences of Donald Wills Douglas : oral history, 1959.

Biographical Note

Aircraft manufacturer.

Scope and Contents

Family background; Naval Academy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; aeronautical design; chief engineer, Martin Company, Los Angeles, 1915-16, Cleveland, 1917-20; chief, aeronautical engineering, United States Signal Corps, 1916-17; Davis-Douglas Company, 1920; Douglas Company, 1921-28; Douglas Aircraft Company, 1928 to present. Comments on early aviation, planes, engines, changes in the aircraft industry, relation with government and military agencies; early designs, DC1-3, B-19; recollections of General H.H. Arnold, Glenn Martin, Harry Chandler, Howard Hughes, and other pioneers in aviation.

Subjects

• Aeronautical engineers--Interviews.
• Aeronautics, Military.
• Aeronautics.
• Aircraft industry.
• Airplanes, Military.
• Airplanes--Design and construction.
• Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950.
• Douglas, Donald W. (Donald Wills), 1892-1981.
• Douglas Aircraft Company.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Shaughnessy, Donald F., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.

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