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... war ended Africano became Head of the Thermodynamic and Thrust Chamber Design Group at the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. While working there the group built the large scale throttleable rocket engines used subsequently ...

... pioneering aviation. Shortly after the Wright Brothers' famous first flight, two Canadians, Casey Baldwin and John McCurdy, teamed up in 1907 with Bell and Glenn Curtiss to form Canada's first cross ... Experiment Association''. i Image:100YearsCanadianSlide03.JPG right thumb Casey Baldwin and John McCurdy with Glenn Curtiss, Thomas Selfridge, Alexander Graham Bell and Augustus Post, (ca. 1907 These pioneers shuttled back and ...

First flight of all-metal pursuit monoplane, Wright H-3, 400-hp engine, at Curtiss Field.

First pursuit aircraft powered with high-temperature, liquid-cooling system designed by the Materiel Division, was completed by Curtiss and flown to Wright Field for flight testing.

The free-flight tunnel placed into operation at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory . April 20-21: Experiments with four-bladed controllable propeller on Curtiss P-36 begun at Wright Field.

... ." Well, I can't run time and a half. Laughter '''Wright:''' You're already running at 200 percent. '''Barton:''' Right. '''Wright:''' Of all the responsibilities that you had during the Gemini time ... help to you, why, all you have to do is let me know. '''Wright:''' We certainly will. '''Barton:''' Okay. Thank you. '''Wright:''' Thank you. End of interview Category:NASA Oral History Interview

... currently serves as the agency’s Deputy Associate Administrator for Earth Science. Interviewer is Rebecca Wright, assisted by Kevin Rusnak. Thank you again for participating in this project. We certainly appreciate ... much. I was up taking pictures and just having a good time. '''Wright:''' Enjoying the Earth? '''Cleave:''' Yes, yes. '''Wright:''' Sounds like a good deal. Before you flew, as you mentioned, in ...

... I was standing in Alan Shepard’s office about seven days later. '''Wright:''' That’s amazing. '''Coplin:''' It is. '''Wright:''' It really is. '''Coplin:''' It really is, and I was the baby ... was required, and we produced good documents. '''Wright:''' No option. '''Coplin:''' No option. '''Wright:''' You also had to work with the families. '''Coplin:''' Yes. '''Wright:''' So how were you able to do that ...

... weather. '''Fullerton:''' Right, so we had eight days, had seven scheduled and an extra one. '''Wright:''' What were your thoughts when you heard mission control said— '''Fullerton:''' “Wow ” We cheered. “Great ... sides by a fluke, not by any basic inherent difference, just personally. '''Wright:''' Just people and pilots. '''Fullerton:''' Yes. '''Wright:''' You also worked on the development of the propulsion-controlled aircraft systems ...

... just took responsibility for the medical records, the pre- and the post-flight medical information. '''Wright:''' Once the Mercury astronauts had finished the Mercury Program, you must have been transitioned into ... operational environmental, totally operational, into a research environment. Boy, that was not an easy transition. '''Wright:''' Did you find your pace slowed down? '''O'Hara:''' Laughs At first I couldn’t ...

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