DONALD DOUGLAS by Peter F. Drucker

“In 1929, so the story goes, Donald Douglas, already a leader among the younger designers, came to Bucky with a rough sketch of his ‘airplane of the future’ for which then there was no aerodynamic theory, no engines, and no materials.

And Bucky told him what was needed to build the airplane of his design—the theory, the engines, and the metals—and that it would be available ten years hence, in 1939.

Ten years later Douglas built the prototype of what became World War II’s most advanced bomber, the Flying Fortress, to Bucky’s specifications.”

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DONALD DOUGLAS by Peter F. Drucker

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