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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:

Aeronautical Engineer, born in 1919, in Chicago, Illinois.
Bachelor of Science degree, Aeronautical University, Chicago.
Worked for Boeing Company, 1942-45, involved with structural tests of the B-17 Flying Fortress and the B-29 Superfortress.
Worked for McDonnell Aircraft from 1945 until retirement in 1982.
- Involved with structural tests for the first carrier based jet aircraft, the FH-1 Phantom.
- As the test manager, worked on the first production capsule escape system test at Wallops Island, Virginia.
- Worked on system tests (vacuum and thermal) for Mercury and Gemini systems.
- Was the project laboratory engineer for missile and space system tests.