McDonnell Douglas Product Registration Form

(Origin unknown. Emailed to me in 1994. All mistakes, inconsistencies, etc. come from the original document)

McDonnell Douglas
Aircraft – Space Systems – Missiles

Important! Important!

Please fill out and mail this card within 10 days of purchase

Thank you for purchasing a McDonnell Douglas military aircraft. In order to protect your new investment, please take a few moments to fill out the warranty registration card below. Answering the survey questions is not required, but the information will help us to develop new products that best meet your needs and desires.

  1. Salutation
    • Mr.
    • Mrs.
    • Ms.
    • Miss
    • Lt.
    • General
    • Comrade
    • Classified
    • Other

    First Name: _______________ Initial: ____ Last Name: _______________
    Latitude: _______________ Longitude _______________ Altitude: _______________
    Password, Code Name, Etc.:__________________

  2. Which model aircraft did you purchase?
    • F-14 Tomcat
    • F-15 Eagle
    • F-16 Falcon
    • F-19A Stealth
    • Classified
  3. Date of purchase: Month___________Day___________Year____________
  4. Serial Number____________________
  5. Please check where this product was purchased:
    • Received as Gift/Aid Package
    • Catalog Showroom
    • Sleazy Arms Broker
    • Mail Order
    • Discount Store
    • Government Surplus
    • Classified
  6. Please check how you became aware of the McDonnell Douglas product you have just purchased:
    • Heard loud noise, looked up
    • Store Display
    • Espionage
    • Recommended by friend/relative/ally
    • Political lobbying by manufacturer
    • Was attacked by one
  7. Please check the three (3) factors which most influenced your decision to purchase this McDonnell Douglas product:
    • Style/Appearance
    • Kickback/Bribe
    • Recommended by salesperson
    • Speed/Maneuverability
    • Comfort/Convenience
    • McDonnell Douglas Reputation
    • Advanced Weapons Systems
    • Price/Value
    • Back-Room Politics
    • Negative experience opposing one in combat
  8. Please check the location(s) where this product will be used:
    • North America
    • Central/South America
    • Aircraft Carrier
    • Europe
    • Middle East
    • Africa
    • Asia/Far East
    • Misc. Third-World Countries
    • Classified
  9. Please check the products that you currently own, or intend to purchase in the near future:
    • Color TV
    • VCR
    • ICBM
    • Killer Satellite
    • CD Player
    • Air-to-Air Missiles
    • Space Shuttle
    • Home Computer
    • Nuclear Weapon
  10. How would you describe yourself or your organization? Check all that apply:
    • Communist/Socialist
    • Terrorist
    • Crazed (Islamic)
    • Crazed (Other)
    • Neutral
    • Democratic
    • Dictatorship
    • Corrupt (Latin American)
    • Corrupt (Other)
    • Primitive/Tribal
  11. How did you pay for your McDonnell Douglas product?
    • Cash
    • Suitcases of Cocaine
    • Oil Revenues
    • Deficit Spending
    • Personal Check
    • Credit Card
    • Ransom Money
    • Traveler’s Check
  12. Occupation:
    • Homemaker
    • Sales/Marketing
    • Revolutionary
    • Clerical
    • Mercenary
    • Tyrant
    • Middle Management
    • Eccentric Billionaire
    • Defense Minister/General
    • Retired
    • Student
  13. To help us understand our Customers’ lifestyles, please indicate the interests and activities in which you and your spouse enjoy participating on a regular basis:
    • Golf
    • Boating/Sailing
    • Sabotage
    • Running/Jogging
    • Propaganda/Disinformation
    • Destabilizing/Overthrow
    • Default on loans
    • Gardening
    • Crafts
    • Black Market/Smuggling
    • Collectibles/Collections
    • Watching Sports on TV
    • Wines
    • Interrogation/Torture
    • Household Pets
    • Crushing Rebellions
    • Espionage/Reconnaissance
    • Fashion Clothing
    • Border Disputes
    • Mutually Assured Destruction

Thanks for taking the time to fill out this questionnaire. Your answers will be used in market studies that will help McDonnell Douglas serve you better in the future — as well as allowing you to receive mailings and special offers from other companies, governments, extremist groups, and mysterious consortia.

Comments or suggestions about our fighter planes? Please write to:

McDONNELL DOUGLAS CORPORATION
Marketing Department
Military Aerospace Division
P.O. Box 800
St. Louis, MO 55500

Neighborhood Public Radio’s “In The Air” event at MOCA

Local art collective Neighborhood Public Radio has been hosting a series of “Engagement Parties” at the Museum Of Contemporary Art in downtown LA. Last Thursday the final event, titled “In The Air,” aimed to “[bring] together local noise musicians and sound and performance artists to facilitate a live performance gesture exploring the ways in which we sonically experience indoor and outdoor spaces, and how sound informs our perceptions of our surroundings.”

Operationally, this meant filling up the inside and outside of MOCA with 100 guitarists (a la Glen Branca) and, well, cutting loose with as much drone as you can. No way I wasn’t going to miss this.

IN THE AIR from NPR | Engagement Party at MOCA

(Yours truly rocking the ambience on the right. Azalia Snail on the left – check out her music when you get a chance)

There were some guidelines. Each player was given a small FM receiver, earphones, and a region of the museum to set up in. Regions were then “conducted” via radio but only in the loosest sense: “Region 5, play a low note.” “Region 1 play something rhythmic.” and so on. By 9pm or so, most of the players had moved up to the outside plaza under Nancy Rubins’ wrecked airplane sculpture.

(obliged to mention that I’m in the clip at the 1:01 mark – choose your own description for sound)

The YouTube video gives you a vague idea of what it sounded like, but is missing much of the subtleties… sound waves bouncing off the buildings, puzzled looks from the patrons, trying to fit your sound in between your neighbor’s. Very exhilarating (and honestly transcendent) couple of hours.

MOCA’s Flickr set of the event.