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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Mr. Bruce Landis

Raymond B. Landis
Date of Birth: 10/09/1920
Military Service
Enlisted – 03/08/1944
Discharged – 05/04/1946
1. Pilot Training, USAF
2. Wright Field, Rotary Wing Branch Prop Lab
Engineering Aide, Flight & Test Stand
Evaluation Sikorsky R-4 Helicopters & Rotor System
Non-Military Experience
1940 – 1944 Kellett Autogyro Co.
1. Drafting / design of XR-2 jump-take-off autogyro system (modifications to YG-1B autogyro) and XR-3 cyclic pitch control system (modifications to a second YG-1B autogyro & predecessor control system to be used on the XR-8 helicopter)
2. Drafting / design of XR-8 helicopter & later the XR-10 helicopter to obtain original contract design/development awards
1946 – 1960 Rotary Wing (Helicopter Design & Development)
1. Employed by Kellett Aircraft, Firestone Aircraft (formerly Pitcairn), Glenn L. Martin,
-- Metal rotor blade design/development/test
2. Naval Air Development Center (N.A.D.C.), Johnsville, PA
-- Pilotless Aircraft Lab, Aircraft Electrical/Electronics Lab
3. E.G. Budd Co, Research & Development Division
-- Double-wrapped, stainless/spot welded rocket gases design & test evaluation
1960 – 1987 G.E. Aerospace, Re-Entry Systems Division
Engineering & Program Office Positions on the Skybolt Program
-- USAF Air-to-Air missile design/development program
Engineering & Program Office Positions on the NASA Biosatellite Program
-- NASA-Ames Research Center’s pre-manned space flights to launch & recover vehicles containing bioscience specimens for evaluating effects of 3-day exposure to weightlessness & controlled radiation on specific biological subjects.
-- Tests also included 30-day exposure to orbital environment of/on a fully instrumented/pre-trained Macaca Nemestrina monkey being monitored real-time in flight via telemetry data flow.
Engineering & Program Office Positions on the Mk-500 Program
-- Evader/re-entry nose design & development program for the USN Trident Class Submarine
-- Evaluate the capability of the programming of the missile re-entry control system to perform radical, evasive tracking at altitude and still achieve the specified target strike zones successfully.
1982 – 1987 G.E. Military Space Systems Division
-- Classified satellite and technology programs
Retried: February 1987
-- Consultant to G.E. Military Space Systems Division until December 1988