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Wall of Honor Level: Air and Space Friend
Honored by:
Mr. John Blandford
Born Sep 5, 1916, New Albany, IN. BS Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1938.
Joined Hughes Aircraft in 1939:
- Worked as project engineer HK-1 Flying Boat, 1944
- Chief Flight Test Engineer, 1945
- Project Engineer XP-87, 1948
- Chief, Armament Development, 1949
- Hughes's Washington representative, 1951-55
- Retired as Director of Marketing, 1975
- Flight Test Engineer on Sikorsky
Survived Sikorsky crash 1942, Lake Mead, with Howard Hughes.
Died May 4, 1993
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