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David S. Lewis could have made McDonnell Douglas the world’s leader in aerospace but incredibly shortsighted decisions by the late James McDonnell sent the corporation into decades of indecision and finally a merger with Boeing. The merger between the McDonnell Aircraft Company and the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967 should have been the aviation merger […]

A history fanatic has visited secret remote locations in over 50 countries to take eerie images of abandoned ...

IF any of the exceedingly hard-pressed staff at Glasgow Airport had time to read the Glasgow Herald on the morning of the airport’s opening, they would have been cheered. The paper’s leading article on Monday, May 2, 1966, argued that the decision to build the airport was the right one. It could even be, in its way, “as crucial a decision as many that had found a permanent place in civic history – from the dredging of the Clyde to the introduction (and eventually abolition) of the t...

LONDON – With the world in constant evolution and experimentation of new technologies, people began to move en masse around the globe in the 90s. And what was the best way to get around? Flying, the safest way to travel. In this great economic growth that has involved many continents, airlines also needed to update themselves, to keep up with the times, and to satisfy the customers’ requests, which were becoming more and more demanding of two things: greater comfort and greater safety. We...