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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Mrs. Ruby C. Andrews

Mr. Andrews, born in Covington, VA (09-23-1934), was a 1958 graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an AIAA Associate Fellow member. In March 1995, he retired from NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) after almost 41 years and then worked another five years at LaRC. He performed research on boat-tail drag, nozzle optimization, rocket-nozzle clustering, rocket-nozzle exhaust plumes, and hypersonic inlets. The last 35 years he researched and tested air-breathing supersonic-combustion ramjet (scramjet) propulsion systems. He authored/co-authored over 60 technical papers.
He was instrumental in establishing the NASA Langley sub-scale free-jet propulsion test facilities for testing dual-mode scramjet engines at Mach 0.5-8.0. Major propulsion programs that he actively participated in were the NASA Hypersonic Research Engine (HRE), the National AeroSpace Plane (NASP), and the Hyper-X (flight tests of the X-43, at Mach 7 and 10, the first free-flying hypersonic vehicle propelled by an air-breathing scramjet propulsion system).