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  • Joseph J. Kiszla
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    Wall of Honor Level:
    Air and Space Friend

    Honored by:
    Ms. Sandra Chew Phillips

    1. Graduated from Casey Jones School of Aeronautics, Newark , New Jersey in 19441.
    2. Platt LePage Aircraft – 1941: Helped design the XR-1 & Xr-1A Cockpit and rotor controls and assisted test pilot in preliminary test flights.
    3. Paisecki Helicopter Co.: Control Design Engineer, helped design rotor controls, cockpit pilot controls for the Air Force H-21, Navy HUP -1, -2, -3 helicopters.
    4. General Dynamics Convair: a) Controls Design Engineer for Convair Aircraft; b)Design Engineer for Convair Aircraft Atlas and Centaur missiles that put John Glenn into orbit and many other astronauts and satellites; c) Design Engineer for activation of missile sites though out U.S.A.; d)Design Engineer for cruise missile design and testing.
    5. Retired from General Dynamics Convair in 1986.

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