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Rick Joseph Caruso (born January 7, 1959) [3] is an American billionaire businessman. [4] The founder and former chief executive officer of Caruso, an American real-estate company, [5] [6] he is also the chair of the board of trustees at the University of Southern California.
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, later McDonnell Douglas (which is now Boeing, after the latter's company merger in 1997), and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
The MD-95, a modern regional airliner closely resembling the DC-9-30, was the last McDonnell Douglas designed commercial jet to be produced. [49] [50] McDonnell Douglas T-45 Goshawk assembly line, c. 1988. On January 13, 1988, McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics won the US Navy Advanced
Sanford "Sandy" Noyes McDonnell (October 12, 1922 – March 19, 2012) was an American engineer, businessman and philanthropist. [1] Former chairman and chief executive officer of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, he also served as national president of the Boy Scouts of America and as chairman of Character Education Partnership.
The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace and defense company based in Southern California. Founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas Sr., it merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas, where it operated as a division. McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing in 1997.
In 1983, two of McDonnell Douglas' former principals Joseph T. Lynaugh (a former director of NYC Health + Hospitals in New York City), the McAuto's project manager of the Bradford takeover, [10] and Howard L. Waltman, a long time Bradford's employee, [11] formed the Sanus Corporation with substantial investments and ownership from McDonnell ...
After graduating from Princeton, Rush worked briefly for McDonnell Douglas as a flight-test engineer for the F-15 program before getting his MBA. [12] Later on, Rush worked as a venture capitalist for the San Francisco company Peregrine Partners. [13]
1984: The Summa Corporation sold Hughes Helicopters to McDonnell Douglas for $500 million; it was soon renamed McDonnell Douglas Helicopters. 1984: The Delaware Court of Chancery appointed eight trustees to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; they decided to sell Hughes Aircraft. 1985: The HHMI sold Hughes Aircraft to General Motors for $5.2 ...