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... fly in bad weather and over unfa- miliar terrain . As Air Corps losses mounted steadily , public criticism obliged the government to commission a formal investigation . Subsequently , New- ton D. Baker , the former Secretary of War ...
... fly in bad weather and over unfa- miliar terrain . As Air Corps losses mounted steadily , public criticism obliged the government to commission a formal investigation . Subsequently , New- ton D. Baker , the former Secretary of War ...
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research and development ( R & D ) program and was flying practically every airplane which would be used during World War II . President Roosevelt recognized the need for coordinating research and named Dr. Vannevar Bush of the ...
research and development ( R & D ) program and was flying practically every airplane which would be used during World War II . President Roosevelt recognized the need for coordinating research and named Dr. Vannevar Bush of the ...
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... fly before buy , prototyping , and total package procurement . While almost any organiza- tion would likely accommodate to its environment , the key to success lay in careful planning , competent engineering , and rigorous management ...
... fly before buy , prototyping , and total package procurement . While almost any organiza- tion would likely accommodate to its environment , the key to success lay in careful planning , competent engineering , and rigorous management ...
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... fly as a pilot with Northwest Airlines . He returned to military duty in October 1938 with the Seventh Bomb Group at Hamilton Field and a year later became a test pilot at Wright Field , Ohio , where he also attended the Air Corps ...
... fly as a pilot with Northwest Airlines . He returned to military duty in October 1938 with the Seventh Bomb Group at Hamilton Field and a year later became a test pilot at Wright Field , Ohio , where he also attended the Air Corps ...
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... flying a seaplane faster than anyone had ever done before — 232 mph ; working with Stark Draper at the MIT , he helped develop fog - flying equipment in 1928 , which led to wide - spread use of artificial hori- zon and directional ...
... flying a seaplane faster than anyone had ever done before — 232 mph ; working with Stark Draper at the MIT , he helped develop fog - flying equipment in 1928 , which led to wide - spread use of artificial hori- zon and directional ...
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aeronautical AFSC Air Corps Air Force Chief Air Force Systems Air Force's Air Materiel Command Air Staff aircraft airplane ARDC Army Air Forces Arnold Assistant aviation Ballistic Missile Division became Boeing bomb bomber cancelled Chief of Staff Chief Scientist Colonel Convair crisis Deputy Chief Doolittle Eighth Air Force electronics engineering flying Force Systems Command Getting going ICBM ICBM program industry involved Ivan Jimmy Jimmy Doolittle July June Kármán Kohn Laboratory major Marsh military Minuteman missiles Minuteman program mission NACA NASA nuclear October operational organization OSRD Pentagon period Phillips pilot President procedures procurement program director program office project officer radar research and development Ridenour Sam Phillips Schriever Scientific Advisory Board Secretary of Defense served technical Theodore von Kármán thermonuclear bomb things Thor Vannevar Bush Vietnam Vietnam War weapon systems World World War II Wright Field
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Page 19 - Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution...
Page 10 - August 1943 when he was appointed Chief of Staff, 5th Air Force Service Command. In September 1944 he assumed command of the Advanced Headquarters, Far East Air Service Command, and supported theater operations from bases in Hollandia, New Guinea, Leyte, Manila, and Okinawa.
Page 94 - NACA National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
Page 90 - I worked for him, and if I had to do it all over again I would do the same thing — only I would try to help him stop his drinking.
Page 11 - Stoller is a native of New York. He earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the College of the City of...
Page 45 - ... September. Public Service, Oppenheimer received the Medal of Merit from President Truman in 1946, and thereafter served the government in many advisory capacities. As a member of the Lilienthal committee he devised the plan that became the official US policy on international control of atomic energy. He was chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1946 to 1952. This committee did much to develop the atomic military capabilities of the US and to support pure...
Page 2 - Thomas A. Sturm, The USAF Scientific Advisory Board: Its First Twenty Years. 1944-1964 (Washington, DC: US Air Force Historical Division Liaison Office, 1967); Nick A.
Page 12 - ... the organization has increased ten-fold over what we had in the old Los Angeles field office. General Welling is authorized 32 officers and 532 civilians. He has many of our best officers and civilians to help him in the conduct of this important program. In Los Angeles, in addition to CEBMCO, are the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division of the Air Research and Development Command, which handles design of these facilities, and the Air Materiel Command's Ballistic Missile Center, which is responsible...
Page 94 - OSD — Office of the Secretary of Defense OSRD— Office of Scientific Research and Development...
Page 27 - Roosevelt to head the National Defense Research Committee, which later became the Office of Scientific Research and Development, wrote that the NACA "research for a generation laid the groundwork for aeronautical advance in this country.