Dale Myers

Graduated from Chanute Jr. College in 1952, served in the Army from 1953 to 1955. Returned to Chanute Jr. College for a third year after serving in the Army and took Physics and Chemistry to prepare for an Electrical Engineering curriculum at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS where Terri was born.

I graduated from Kansas State University in 1959 in Electrical Engineering with an Electronics option, (versus a power option).

Graduated from the University of Tulsa in 1967 with a Masters Degree in Mathematics.

Went to work at American Airlines in The Test Equipment Engineering department as a design engineer. Learned to design test equipment for aircraft avionics, hydraulic, pneumatics and jet engines.

Went to work for North American Rockwell in June 1962 to work on the Apollo spacecraft whose ultimate mission was to land an astronaut on the moon. I spend 16 months in Los Angeles developing design requirements for equipment required to launch the Apollo spacecraft.

Led an electrical design group to design fuel-handling equipment that would safely pump fuel into the Apollo 8 fuel tanks at a height of 170 ft. The fuel was Nitrogen Tetroxide and Hydrazine, which are combustible on contact. This was the first equipment that had ever been designed to accomplish this.

Later designed a super accurate fuel flow measuring system to pump fuel on board the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), which landed on the moon. I wrote a computer program that contained a lookup table to enhance the accuracy of the fuel measurement. It used a 5-point LaGrange polynomial for interpolation.

Spent time at Camp Kennedy providing electrical support for the equipment that I designed (as well as other equipment designed by Rockwell engineers) until the launch of Apollo 8.

Acted as a backup test conductor for the launch.

Returned to Tulsa in 1967 and was assigned to a special project to do Computer Aided Circuit Analysis on the guidance system of the Minute Man Missile.

Spent 3 months At Autonetics in California studying the physical operation of transistors so that I could better represent the mathematical model that computers used to solve electronic circuit equations for the Minute Man missile. Developed mathematical equations to simulate electrical circuits being hit with various levels of Atomic radiation. This allowed redesign of circuits to meet certain levels of radiation.

Returned to American Airlines in 1969 and a year later was promoted to Manager of Test Equipment Engineering with design responsibility of all of American Airlines Test Equipment. I later took over responsibility for all of American Airlines Standards Labs. I managed the Test Equipment Engineering department from 1970 until retirement
in 1990.

HOBBIES
Computers, Grandchildren, Fishing, More Computers.