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... 1956, the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1959 and the National Aeronautics Association's Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy in 1974. The engineer also was inducted into the National Inventors' Hall ... design of high performance aircraft, and the Paul E. Garber First Flight Shrine at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in North Carolina. Whitcomb's alma mater, Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts ...

... the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project. The interviewer is Kevin Rusnak, assisted by Rebecca Wright and Sandra Johnson. I’d like to thank you for taking time out to meet ... companies. IBM and GE General Electric were not, but Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. and Curtiss-Wright were. Also, just by accident one day at school, a group from NASA Langley Research ... a future interview. I did want to give Rebecca a chance to ask any questions. '''Wright:''' I have one quick one. I think you alluded to the answer already, but as ...

... Force program, the Zero-G KC-135, which the Air Force had been running at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base . They were in the process of phasing out some of their ... , please. '''Algranti:''' Okay. The zero gravity was a program run by the Air Force at Wright-Patterson that started in 1960 with the KC-135. Originally it was run with Convair ... mod at Tinker, and we actually hired Don Griggs, who had been the manager at Wright-Patterson. He came to Ellington and flew with us probably five or six years before ...

... :''' Well, my knowledge of aerodynamics was not good enough to match the quality of the Wright Brothers' tunnel, and at that point I suppose I was equally educated to them. But ... influence of twenty or fifty people, each of which was significant, but not overpowering. '''Rebecca''' '''Wright:''' Well, if you don't mind, before we end, one of the efforts of our ... of some other generation. I suspect you'll come along, given a little chance. Laughter '''Wright:''' If you have no more, I certainly would like to thank you gentlemen, on behalf ...

... the Inspector General, and before I got shipped out of basic I got stationed at Wright Field with the Air Corps. They figured an aeronautical engineer ought to know something about wind tunnels, and I got assigned to the Vertical Wind Tunnel at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The Vertical Wind Tunnel was used for doing ... the right thing to do. Anyway, Bob Crawford, Captain Crawford, wanted me to stay at Wright-Pat at that time, and he offered me a civilian—what was called P-2 ...

... 1927 to Frederick Ira Ordway, Jr., who was in the financial industry, and Frances Antoinette Wright. Ordway was descended from a New England family that arrived in Maine during the mid ... . ) At the 2003 Centennial of Flight ceremony in Paris marking the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brother's flight, Ordway accepted prizes on behalf of both Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Wernher von Braun . Von Braun finished second in the balloting behind the winning Wright Brothers. Affiliations Mr. Ordway was a long time member of the Explorer's Club in ...

... . Each of these efforts is important in its own right... " (A&A, 4/65, 23)'' Orville H. Daniel discussed small rockets-chiefly meteorological sounding rockets-in International Science and Technology. "Forty ...

... , 11/ 12/65, C4)'' Thirty years ago a helium-filled balloon, Explorer II, carried Capt. Orvil A. Anderson (USA) and Capt. Albert W. Stevens (USA) to a 14-mi. altitude-highest ...

... good health. ''(NYT, 3/8/67,24; W Star, 3/7/67)'' Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman and six other Government officials visited Marshall Space Flight Center MSFC . NASA Administrator ...

... , assessing crop yield, and determining the extent of disease, drought, or insects, Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman predicted at National Assn. of Science Teachers' convention in Detroit. "While the farmers ...

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