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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Ms. Carol Oakes

My delight with aviation began as a youth and embraced those old biplanes of the 1930s. Later I soloed in one of them, and later still, I managed a decent forced landing which sidelined that plane for the duration of my training. I finished in an Aeronica. Armed with my Private Pilot's License and a BS degree in Aeronautical Engineering, naturally I washed out of pilot training in the Army Air Corps, and spent WW II as a Maintenance Engineering Officer. After the war, I worked upon the B-47 bomber at Boeing Airplane Co, before moving to Wright Patterson AFB as a Civil Service employee. There I worked upon feasibility and preliminary design studies for what eventually became the B-1 Weapon System, and the Tomahawk missile. Over the years I worked upon a number of unique weapon system concepts which never made it off the drawing board. Perhaps the most unique and challenging system ever, was the WS l20-A, a nuclear powered aircraft. It was an engineer's dream, but an environmental nightmare. So what did I give aviation? Love. I loved those airplanes.