Age of Aces » May 1940 http://www.ageofaces.net The Best in Air-War Fiction Fri, 01 May 2026 10:00:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 “They Had What It Takes – Part 40: Donald Douglas” by Alden McWilliams http://www.ageofaces.net/2014/09/%e2%80%9cthey-had-what-it-takes-%e2%80%93-part-40-donald-douglas%e2%80%9d-by-alden-mcwilliams/ http://www.ageofaces.net/2014/09/%e2%80%9cthey-had-what-it-takes-%e2%80%93-part-40-donald-douglas%e2%80%9d-by-alden-mcwilliams/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:00:00 +0000 David http://www.ageofaces.net/?p=3334 !]]> Here we are with the penultimate installment of Alden McWilliam’s illustrated biographies he did for Flying Aces Magazine. And this time around we have that giant of American Aviation—Donald Wills Douglas!

Douglas was an influential American aircraft industrialist and engineer who founded his Douglas Aircraft Company in 1921 which would become one of the leaders in the commercial aircraft industry. He went head to head with arch-rival Boeing gaining the early advantage throughout production during WWII, but then sadly fell behind with the advent of the jet age. Douglas retired in 1957 and passed away in 1981 at the age of 88.

He was such a big figure in Aeronautics that Popular Science also ran an illustrated feature on his life and career in their December 1940 issue. Illustrated by B.W. Schlatter.

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