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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

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Born 7 months after Lindbergh's historic flight, he began a lifetime interest in Aerospace with the construction of his first model airplane at age 8. He remained an avid modeler while pursuing a career as an aeronautical engineer through BS and MS degrees in Mechanical/Aero. Engineering at Carnegie Tech as well as MA and PhD degrees in Aeronautical Eng'g. at Princeton, with major research work in rocket combustion. Shifting his professional emphasis, he accepted a position as Flight Systems Engineer in the Air Branch of the Office of Naval Research. Here he concentrated his efforts on low speed and high lift aircraft development, including helicopters, fixed-wing VTOL, and air cushion vehicles. After 3 years, he returned to academia as a faculty member in the newly-formed Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Virginia, a post from which he retired in 1997 as Professor Emeritus after 37 years' service During that time he taught courses in basic aeronautics, aircraft and spacecraft design, jet and rocket propulsion, stability and control, experimental aerodynamics, helicopter performance, introductory astronautics, high-speed gas dynamics, engineering design methodology, and history of aviation and space technology. His research activities were in the fields of low speed aerodynamics, wind tunnel design, and jet fuel atomization. He also held administrative appointments as Chairman of the A.E. Dept., Asst. Dean of Engineering, and Dean of Admissions for the University. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and received that society's National Faculty Advisor Award in 1993.