DOUGLAS SECRET PROJECTS - Aircraft Concepts and Proposals from Long Beach during the Cold War.

My Pops worked for Douglas in Santa Monica. He finished off 46 years in HB.
I had plenty of your work hanging on my walls as a kid. Thank you. That was an awesome presentation.

Actually Mike, ATB stood for Advanced Technology Bomber, and the B-21 Raider is the end result of the LRD-B; Long Range Strike-Bomber program. The ATB Program birthed the B-2 Spirit bomber.

Hey Mike, there was no air force Major Command know as the Tactical Training Command, instead, it was Air Training Command, untill Summer '93, when it became AETC; Air Education and Training Command.

you've out done yourself mike! thanks for another great video.

My son flew a KC-10. Out of McGuire

Bô ! How about the X-3! Hahaha... it WAS a good airplane! First titanium structure, all that slow speed data, the inertia coupling data... the afterburners... o'l Bridgeman earned his pay and made life easier at Lockeed! Your paintings are great, love'em! Thanks for the video, cheers from Normandy.

...y'all forgot the French DC-7 "Avions de Mesures et d'Observations au Réceptacle," ou DC-7 "AMOR"... à refaire!

Thanks Mike brings back some memories of illustrations of advanced aircraft.😊 I saw in various magazines and books.

I love your content! Keep up the great work!

I sometimes wish McDonnell never merged with Douglas. Douglas was pure class, building some excellent aircraft that were well built, easy to maintain and lasted a life time!

Thanks for the video. It's ironic seeing all these ideas coming are into vogue once again what with the Rapid dragon system et al.

Scene: At the airport. Husband says to wife as they are walking out to board plane..." Marge, I think we are getting on the wrong plane. Wife: Oh hush up, Gerald, you're always complaining about something. " One hour later the Captain comes on the intercom: .." Ladies & gentlemen, please have your seat belts securely tightened, you will be launched out the side in one minute into enemy airspace. Be prepared for wind buffeting. "

It's a real shame that some of the most iconic aircraft in military history are now listed as Boeing products when they were all originally designed and built by McDonald Douglas. Im talking about the F-15 Eagle, C-17 Globemaster III, and FA-18 Hornet.

Thunderbird's Are Go...That's what these concepts remind me of.

Another great one. Thanks Mike. This was mostly new territory for me.

These "what if " projects are fascinating !

"Are we not men? We are Dougloid." I worked on the 9 line in Long Beach 78-82.
If you're interested, one YC-15 is on display outside the main gate of Edwards air force base along with a display of century series fighters. Worth the short side trip from Rosamond.

Nice renderings!

Douglas Aircraft will always be in our hearts! DC-10 Forever!
Thanks Mike for another great video

Great work both in your job as a illustrator and the content of this video well done! I did enjoy that

Excellent episode, enjoyed every second of it and learned a new thing or two!

Great video and content Mike.

what ever happened to the robin egg blue paint scheme that was so successful in the 80's?

Thank for the walk down memory lane. During the tarmac detail assembly of C-15 project I had the privilege of a tour aboard the aircraft. The chief ground pilot, Glen Hubbard a personal friend, gave me the tour. What an amazing aircraft. Too bad it didn't go beyond the protype stage.

There are some designs that could easily be replicated using basic model aircraft hulls!

Always love to see experimental aircraft ideas of the old days. So crazy, unique, yet somehow still functional and engineered with a supposed purpose.

This was a great Episode Mike!!! I did not realise Douglas was in on the SST proposal 'sweepstakes' prior to this presentation & photos...

Mike: Not sure how often you wander over to Instagram (I'm not much of a user myself), but I dug of some old McDonnell Douglas semi-secret artwork and sent some pix to you.

Was there ever talk of making a tanker version of the MD-11?

Great presentation!

Great video. Thank you for posting it. A lot of different concepts that I’ve never seen before. I know that MDD had been swallowed up by Boeing, and the F-4 Phantom is my all-time favorite aircraft. Seeing them referred to as Boeing, made my eyes burn. I will never, ever, refer to them as a Boeing aircraft. They will always be in my heart, a McDonnell Douglas air frame.

My father worked with Art Shaw on development of the BAe hawk for the US Navy

ATB stood for Advanced Technology Bomber. It was devepod from the ATA-S and the ATA-B programs, which were advanced techology aircraft-A and Advanced Technology Aircraft-B. "A" was a smaller stealth strike aircraft and B was a larger stealth strike aircraft. ATA-A lead to the F-117 program and ATA-B lead to the ATB/B-2 program.

Excellent artwork in these illustrations. In fact, a godsend- I'm an artist, and there's an older model here that I saw at the Bolton Airfield where I worked. Not as an illustrator ( even though I've drawn the landing gears of F-16s ) I was involved in the project of laying a new landing strip.

Awesome presentation... thank you so much!

What sort of timeline did you have to finish paintings? Were these airbrushed?

Great video Mike. You and your fellow aviation artists created some interesting and very attractive renderings for our enjoyment. Thank you for all you do.

Back in the 'pre-internet' days, I did not quite understand what the C-133 Cargomaster was. And by that I mean I was unsure who built it. I actually thought it might have been a modification of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules. {I had never seen one in person, only in photographs.}

Several years ago I visited the USAF's AMC[?] museum at Dover AFB. They have a C-133 there. They actually opened it while I was there, so I got to go inside. I learned...
(1) It was built by Douglas.
(2) It was larger than a C-130. I have been around Herky Birds, and the C-133 is DEFINITELY LARGER.
(3) It was the predecessor {in the strategic cargo role} to the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy.

As always a very enjoyable and informative video!! I could look at the art work for hours! Thanks Mike.

Thank you for this. Brought me back to my childhood where my grandfather (who worked at Douglas in Santa Monica and Long Beach) would sit me on his lap and show me drawings of what he worked on there.

The model 229 has the same canted down (in flight) wing-tips as the XB 70.

Wonderful stuff, Machete.

Thanks for this 👍✈️

It would be interesting to see if anything remains of Lockheed's proposal for a two-engined C-130.
I have heard that everything possible had been destroyed.....

This is gold!

Did a civil Super DC-10 possibly have a chance, as a competitor og the 747?