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... aviation and rocketry. The key people in this story are highlighted - and are given “The Wright Stuff” Awards - for their contribution. Many of them are surprising, in that they would not ... by artists, regulators, politicians and some of the earliest aviators - all of whom had “The Wright Stuff”.Image:9781926592176.jpg '''Buy This Book''' http://www.apogeespacebooks.com/Books ...

... SPACE HANDBOOK: ASTRONAUTICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS''' by Bucheim, R. W. and Rand Corp. Staff ''New York, 1959: Random House, Inc., 330 pages, $1.25'' In 300 odd pages ...

... . Cosmonaut 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, DOD ... closed 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 ...

... overran St. Louis Municipal Airport in rain and fog and crashed into the McDonnell Aircraft Corp. building which housed GEMINI IX and 10 spacecraft. The jet, cleared for an instrument landing ... , 3/1/66, 19)’’ AFSC awarded General Electric Co., Pratt & Whitney Div., United Aircraft Corp., and Curtiss-Wright Corp. contracts totaling $41,750,000 for development of vectored-thrust cruise propulsion system (lift-cruise ...

... 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, contained igniter ...

... ,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 ... National 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 Rochelle ...

... , 8/22/70, A3)'' Dr. Theodore P. Wright, Civil Aeronautics Administrator from 1944 to 1948 and former Vice President and Director of Engineering with Curtiss-Wright Corp., died in Ithaca, N.Y., at age ...

... announced three personnel appointments to Headquarters: Earl D. Hilburn, Vice President. and General Manager of Curtiss ­Wright Corp . Electronics Div., as Deputy Associate Administrator (for DOD-manned space flight centers; Robert F. Garbarini ... Service of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, and Chief of the Air Corps from 1931 to 1935. ''(CR, 6/27/63, 11203)'' June 1963 June Jun 1 1963 ...

... -size conventional steel case but was 25% lighten The steel was developed under contract by Curtiss-Wright Corp. ''(AFSC Release 44-129-94)'' Michael V. Lighthill, director of British laboratory involved in developing ... . east of Cape Kennedy . ''(M&R, 8/17/64, 9)'' Common stock of Communications Satellite Corp . had risen as high as $35 since it was put on sale to the public ...

... weigh considerations before opening appropriate escape exits. Patent No. 3,456,445 was issued to Curtiss-Wright Corp. for improved version of astronaut maneuvering unit, Cap Pistol, intended to propel man outside space ... , and Richard E. Biehl. ''(Pat Off PIO; Jones, NYT, 7/26/69, 31)'' Goodyear Aerospace Corp. had invented USAF Pilot Airborne Recovery Device (PARR) to keep ejecting jet fighter pilot aloft ...

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