The series also featured a number of contemporary Irish actors and comedians, including Dervla Kirwan, Graham Norton, Tommy Tiernan, Patrick McDonnell, Don Wycherley, Joe Rooney, Jason Byrne, Jim Norton, Pat Shortt, Jon Kenny, Ed Byrne, Brendan Grace, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Gerard McSorley and Kevin McKidd.

A number of Mercury boilerplate spacecraft ( including mockup / prototype / replica spacecraft, made from non-flight materials or lacking production spacecraft systems and / or hardware ) were also made by NASA and McDonnell Aircraft.

Tarjan is currently the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, and is also a Senior Fellow at Hewlett-Packard.

Many airliners have also been modified for government use as VIP transports and for military functions such as airborne tankers ( for example, the Vickers VC10, Lockheed L1011, Boeing 707 ), air ambulance ( USAF / USN McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ), reconnaissance ( Embraer ERJ 145, Saab 340, Boeing 737 ), as well as for troop-carrying roles.

It is also involved in two major joint ventures, the Engine Alliance with GE which manufactures engines for the Airbus A380, and International Aero Engines company with Rolls-Royce, MTU Aero Engines, and the Japanese Aero Engines Corporation which manufactures engines for the Airbus A320 and the McDonnell Douglas MD-90 aircraft.

Along the way, she picks up several survivors and also finds the injured First Lady ( Mary McDonnell ), who had been flying out of Los Angeles by helicopter when it was knocked down in the alien attack.

It also had a prototype blast furnace at Laskill, producing cast iron as efficiently as a modern blast furnace ; according to Gerry McDonnell ( archeometallurgist of the University of Bradford ), the closure of Rievaulx delayed the Industrial Revolution for two and a half centuries.

McDonnell was also developing jets, but being smaller it was prepared to be more radical, building on its successful FH-1 Phantom to become a major supplier to the Navy with the F2H Banshee and F3H Demon ; and producing the F-101 Voodoo for the United States Air Force ( USAF ).

McDonnell also created artwork for the second generation New Jersey Animal Friendly optional license plate first issued in 2001.

Patrick McDonnell and his brother Robert McDonnell have been hired to write the script, while Patrick will also executive produce.

McDonnell is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Humane Society of the United States.

The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle was also an interceptor with enhanced agility, but did not carry the Phoenix in preference to the role of an air-superiority fighter.

The McDonnell Douglas YC-15 and its successor, the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, also employ the effect.

The Boeing Company ( formerly McDonnell Douglas ) maintains production of the C-17 military transport jet ; maintenance facilities for other Boeing and McDonnell Douglas / Douglas aircraft ( including the historic DC-9 and DC-10 aircraft ) are also found at Long Beach Airport.

Allegiant Air also operates McDonnell Douglas MD 80 jetliners from Fresno with nonstops to Las Vegas and has introduced Boeing 757-200 nonstops to Honolulu.

American also flew Boeing 727-200 and McDonnell Douglas MD-80 jets from Huntsville to Nashville in the late 1980's and early 1990's when the airline operated a large connecting hub located in this Tennessee city.

Mundelein also studied at St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome, where he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Charles Edward McDonnell on June 8, 1895.

McDonnell also developed the LBD-1 Gargoyle guided missile.

A Lockheed L-1011 and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 were also used for testing, and the latter design was directly implemented by McDonnell Douglas on the derivative MD-11, which was rolled out in 1990.

However, while the FAA agreed that the locking and electrical systems should be upgraded, the FAA also agreed with McDonnell Douglas that the additional venting would be too expensive to implement, and the FAA did not demand that this change be made.

He also made a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 model of Air Europa, airline for which he works now.

Joe McDonnell was also voted the Canadian Hockey League Coach of the Year in the 1988 – 89 season.

In 2003, McDonnell starred in the mini-series Battlestar Galactica as Laura Roslin.

The production was directed by Patrick Rayner and starred Julie Austin as Gloriana, Mark McDonnell ( who co-adapted the book for radio ) as Tully, Crawford Logan as Count Montjoy, Simon Tait as Dr. Kokintz and Steven McNicholl ( who also co-adapted the book ) as Mr. Benter.

GE went on to develop this technology with NASA and McDonnell Aircraft, leading to its use during Project Gemini.

Randi recruited two young magicians and sent them undercover to Washington University's McDonnell Laboratory with the specific aim of exposing poor experimental methods and the credulity thought to be common in parapsychology.

** At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 ( a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 ( a Boeing 727 ) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.

Grissom was one of the smaller astronauts, and he worked very closely with the engineers and technicians from McDonnell Aircraft who built the Gemini spacecraft.

After a brief and unsuccessful collaboration effort with McDonnell Douglas in 1981, Fokker began an ambitious project to develop two new aircraft concurrently.

A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 of the Dutch airlines " KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines ", built at 1995-8-31, with the registration " PH-KCH " carries her name.

In 1984, Charles D. Walker became the first non-government astronaut to fly, with his employer McDonnell Douglas paying $ 40, 000 for his flight.

The year 1964 brought back the combat crew training mission of the World War II years with the 4453d Combat Crew Training Wing equipped with the Air Force's newest and most sophisticated fighter, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.

The largest transactions have been: the merger of Boeing with McDonnell valued at 13. 4 bil.

Within 24 hours, police had established a link with the murder of Marsha McDonnell, who was killed in similar circumstances in nearby Hampton 18 months earlier.

The site's association with military helicopters continued through McDonnell Aircraft and McDonnell Douglas all the way to the present, as a Boeing Integrated Defense Systems plant now operates there.

In 1991 Croatia Airlines signed an agreement with Adria Airways which allowed it to lease a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 to commence domestic jet services between Zagreb and Split.

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USD in 1999, the merger of Boeing with McDonnell valued at 13. 4 bil.

McDonnell Douglas merged with its rival, Boeing, in 1997.

He left Martin in 1938 to try again with his own firm, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, this time based at Lambert Field, outside St. Louis, Missouri.

McDonnell made a number of missiles, including the unusual ADM-20 Quail, as well as experimenting with hypersonic flight, research that enabled it to gain a substantial share of the NASA projects Mercury and Gemini.

In 1967, with the merger of McDonnell and Douglas Aircraft, Dave Lewis, then president of McDonnell, was named chairman of what was called the Long Beach, Douglas Aircraft Division.

This could have given McDonnell Douglas an early lead in the huge twinjet market that subsequently developed, as well as commonality with much of the DC-10's systems.