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By Murdo Morrison2021-04-22T10:56:00+01:00 The early to mid-1960s were arguably aerospace’s most creative age, outside wartime. From the first manned space missions to the genesis of vertical take-off fighters, supersonic transports, and jumbo jets, engineers were dreaming big. The period also saw the birth of the business jet, an invention that fused glamour, security, and time machine for those Tom Wolfe would term the Masters of the Universe in booming corporate America. Source: Bombardi...

McDonnell Aircraft was riding high on fighter production for the U.S. Navy and Air Force in the last half of the 1950s. Into the mix, for the first time, McDonnell proposed a small four-engine transport jet after preliminary design exploration in 1957. The effort was a multi-million-dollar private enterprise undertaken by the company at its St. Louis plant. It had a military angle in the early stages. The U.S. Air Force sought a modern small transport under the designation UCX, or Experimental ...