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... age of 72 in Cutchogue, New York. Kelly had led a team of engineers at Grumman Aircraft Corporation in designing and building the Lunar Excursion Module known as the Eagle. Apollo 11 ...

... you paid for it. Well, Grumman couldn’t produce the airplanes for the war, and they took over the General Motors plant and converted it to Eastern Aircraft. All right. Now, there ... airplanes. But that’s the story of the status of Grumman. Now, all this time while Eastern Aircraft made 33,000 airplanes, Grumman made less than 3,000. So you see the difference ... ’s biggest worry came true: the Grummans applied the system to the F-14 program. When they applied it to the F-14 program, Republic Aircraft was a subcontractor. They forced them ...

... responsibility for the Shuttle Training Aircraft Program, which was a highly modified Gulfstream II, and we had a competitive procurement, bought two airplanes, delivered them to Grumman, Bethpage, where they were modified, and got them in service in late 1976. Just about concurrent with that, we bought the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft SCA . That was ...

... anything that I wanted to do. The aircraft program sounded interesting, and this aircraft job turned into, by the way, a division, because we took over aircraft engineering. They did some combining of ... sky and that. That’s when I got into this aircraft business, aircraft engineering. We worked on the development of the Shuttle Training Aircraft STA . That probably came as close to getting me ... of Grumman, and said, “Let me try to help you with this,” and so forth. But, yes, went very well with him. '''Rusnak:''' How difficult was it to get this aircraft ready ...

... kind of things that are a little different than most. '''Ward:''' Yeah. What sorts of aircraft were you initially involved with? '''Haise:''' Well at the time I went into flight training ... , the Grumman F6F, the one that, you know, won fame in the Pacific War. '''Ward:''' Prop and radial engine. '''Haise:''' Prop—radial. Both of them—both of them prop aircraft that I ... :''' So your associations with Grumman began a long time ago. '''Haise:''' Well, if you look at the whole flying, I’ve flown about 80 types of aircraft. So I’ve had an ...

... assigned to work the Grumman Aerospace Corporation proposal, and so we wound up with three main proposals, Grumman’s, McDonnell Douglas’ Corporation , and North American’s Rockwell Corporation . Lockheed Aircraft Corporation was in the running for a while, but then they gave up. So anyway, my opinion was that the Grumman proposal was much better than ...

... a lot easier managing, and then we would farm out pieces of it to other aircraft companies so they could manage some things, too, with us. So that's what we ... what's best for Grumman, but I think what's best for Grumman is what's best for the country. If Grumman will do it, than that's best for Grumman." So he called ... the job to Boeing. That become a little bit of a problem, too, because Boeing Aircraft Company didn't get the job of integrating because they've been integrating airplanes for ...

... the life of the Shuttle program. My focus then was on commercial aircraft, and there were three two-engine aircraft to consider. There was the Boeing 737. There was the Lockheed JetStar ... one that it used for in-flight simulation. Finally, there was the Grumman Gulfstream, which is a deluxe executive aircraft. So these three were the candidates, and we asked them to submit ... have Grumman modify the wing to provide large wing flaps. These were then modulated by the simulation as a function of the vehicle’s angle of attack (the angle between the aircraft ...

... cryogenic tanking" used in shuttle's fuel supply. Grumman design ad also been more expensive than NR version. Spokesmen for other losers, Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and McDonnell Douglas Corp., declined to comment ... by correspondent Pavel Barashev of his flight aboard first serial Tu-144 Soviet supersonic transport aircraft. Aircraft had reached speed of nearly 2500 km per hr (1500 mph). "When the engine started ...

... F-14 aircraft from Grumman Aerospace Corp. in accordance with terms of original contract. Grumman issued statement same day saying costs had risen to point where it would go bankrupt producing aircraft at originally ... discussions of possible U.S. certification and marketing of Soviet Yak-40 short-haul transport aircraft by Boeing , Aviation Week & Space Technology reported. U.S.S.R. also had discussed Yak ...

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