James Smith McDonnell
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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, McDonnell Douglas, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
Early life
McDonnell was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and graduated from Little Rock High School in 1917. He was a member of Princeton University's 1921 class reunion and obtained a Master's of Science in Aeronautical Engineering from MIT in 1925. While attending MIT, he became a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. Tom Towle, a Harvard undergraduate, had been recruited by Ford Motor Company's Stout Metal Airplane Division after graduating from MIT. He was recruited by the Hamilton Metalplane Company in 1927 to produce similar metal monoplanes. He then moved to Huff Daland Airplane Company.
Personal life
James McDonnell was married twice. On June 30, 1934, his first marriage, to Mary Elizabeth Finney, took place in Baltimore, Maryland. James Smith McDonnell, III, and John Finney McDonnell, 1938, they had two children, James Smith McDonnell, III, born January 28, 1936, and John Finney McDonnell, 1938. Mary McDonnell died on July 6, 1949. On April 1, 1956, he married Priscilla Brush Forney and adopted her three children from a previous marriage.
McDonnell died of a stroke on August 22, 1980. He was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.
Career
McDonnell left Huff Daland and established J.S. in 1928. McDonnell & Associates, along with two other engineers, set out to build his first aircraft bearing his company name. This aircraft went on to compete in a safe airplane competition run by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for Aeronautics and that gave the winning entry a $100,000 reward. The Doodle Bug was the subject of his invention. He dissolved his company and worked for the Glenn L. Martin Company after the Doodle Bug's defeat (the Curtiss Tanager won) or any commercial orders due to the Great Depression.
McDonnell resigned from Martin in 1938 and formed McDonnell Aircraft Corporation in 1939. The company, which was headquartered in St. Louis, quickly developed into a key fighter aircraft supplier to the US Air Force and the US Navy, including the F-4 Phantom II, and manufactured the Mercury and Gemini space capsules.
McDonnell Aircraft Coordination began in 1967, resulting in the creation of McDonnell Douglas. Douglas Aircraft Company's space and missile division became part of McDonnell Douglas Astronautics, a new division that manufactures the Delta series of launch vehicles in Huntington Beach, California. The latest joint venture also manufactured the F-15 Eagle and F/A-18 Hornet fighters.
He served as chairman of the United Nations Association of the United States, and his organization became the first in the world to celebrate United Nations Day as a paid holiday in 1958. The National Academy of Sciences awarded the NAS Award in Aeronautical Engineering in 1980. McDonnell was a recipient of the National Academy of Sciences' Aeronautical Engineering Prize in 1981.
He was named Chair of McDonnell Douglas by his nephew, Sanford N. McDonnell, in 1980.
In 1997, McDonnell Douglas and Boeing consolidated.