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... year as a stabilizing motor for a Tiros weather satellite. Conceived by the Wright Aeronautical Div. of the Curtiss-Wright Corp. in Wood Ridge, N.J., it was made entirely of plastic ...

... Yuri Gagarin answered questions in the Soviet pavilion. ''(UPI, Miami Her., 6/11/65)'' Curtiss-Wright Corp, could participate in future naval weapons procurement, including the procurement of weapon system trainers ... session of the House Appropriations Committee he disclosed "inadequate performance" on the part of Curtiss-Wright in connection with the P3-A trainer program. ''(Text; NYT, 6/11/65, 12)'' June ...

... , Au, Wk., 11/1/65)'' President Johnson issued the annual proclamation inviting Americans to observe "Wright Brothers Day, December 17, 1965, with appropriate ceremonies and activities, both to recall the accomplishments of the Wright brothers and to provide a stimulus to aviation in this country and throughout the world ...

... Lederer, director of the Flight Safety Foundation, Inc., received the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy at the Aero Club's annual Wright Brothers Memorial Dinner in Washington, D.C, He was cited for ...

... human knowledge." ''(Lindbergh, Denver Post, 7/16/67)'' Harry N. Atwood, an associate of the Wright Brothers, died at age 83. On July 1, 1911, during 17-hr 12-min flight ... fly over New York City. The following month he successfully flew his biplane, the "Baby Wright," 1,265 mi from St. Louis to New York City in 28 hrs 58 min ...

... . C. Stark Draper, chairman of MIT’s Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, gave 29th annual Wright Brothers Lecture on the role of “informetics” in modern flight systems. NASA Associate Administrator for ... highest, was presented jointly to Hans J. P. von Ohain, Chief Scientist, Aerospace Research Lab., Wright-Patterson AFB , for “his contributions to the achievement in 1939 of the first successful application ...

... ,000 rpm was part of new electrostatic gyroscope (Esg) being flight-tested by USAF at Wright-Patterson AFB aboard C-124 Globemaster aircraft. Instability formerly found in the spinning gyroscope had ... Defence. ''(Av. Wk., 11/21/66, 35)'' Guy Warner Vaughn, president and chairman of Curtiss-Wright Corp. and among first to apply mass-production techniques to aviation industry, died in New ...

... -billion Fast Deployment Logistic Fleet (FDL) program because of USN's new contract policy, Robert Wright reported in the New York Times. Under new policy, firms were required to bid for ... sea for indefinite periods and making fast delivery of heavy supplies to fight small wars. ''(Wright, NYT, 12/11/66, 12)'' December 1966 December Dec 1 1966 1 Dec 2 1966 ...

... rocket-engine aircraft built to test flight environment in upper atmosphere, took its place near Wright brothers' Kitty Hawk Flyer and Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. Aircraft had ... pilot, Maj. Michael J. Adams (USAF) ; No. 2 was being displayed at Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson AFB , Ohio. X-15 program had cost $300 million and established records for 354 ...

... article that rocket expert Dr. Robert H. Goddard "was to the moon rocket what the Wright brothers were to the airplane." Guggenheim, administrator of Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of ... to transform the future." While Dr. Goddard had died without fame which had accrued to Wright brothers in their lifetime, "he died still believing that man would one day shatter the ...

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