Airplanes -- Design and construction
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Fayette Taylor papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0071
Abstract
Charles Fayette Taylor, 1894-1996 , BS 1915, MS in mechanical engineering,1920, Yale University, was an ensign in the Naval Reserve Corps during World War I, in charge of the Navy's Aeronautical Engine Laboratory in Washington, DC. From 1920 to 1923 he managed the U.S. Army's Air Service Laboratory at McCook Airfield in Dayton, Ohio, where he supervised engine endurance tests, aircraft flight tests, and fuel anti-knock tests. He directed airplane engine design and development at the Wright...
Dates:
1912 - 1990
Edward Pearson Warner papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39080008716463]
Identifier: MC-0205
Scope and Contents
Collection includes articles, addresses, photographs, and a partial draft of Warner's book tentatively titled Design of Airships
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Dates:
1923 - 1927
Jerome C. Hunsaker papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-0272
Abstract
Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, a graduate of the US Naval Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, taught the first course in aeronautical engineering and aviation design at MIT. In 1933 he was made head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, in charge of the course in aeronautical engineering, becoming head of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering when it was founded in 1939. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, and reports on the development of...
Dates:
1898 - 1969
...plus facilement et recule bien moins si les surfaces sont concaves...
Digital Record
Identifier: VBI_000441
Dates:
n.d.