William Frederick Durand (March 5, 1859 – August 9, 1958) was a United States naval officer and pioneer mechanical engineer. He contributed significantly...
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(1682–1771), French monk and historian William F. Durand (1859–1958), American aeronautical engineer Durant (surname) Durand (disambiguation) Randt This page...
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after him: Charles F. Kettering Sr. High School in Detroit, Michigan Charles F. Kettering High School in Waterford, Michigan Charles F. Kettering Elementary...
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space before the Soviet Union.[citation needed] In 1961, when President John F. Kennedy announced that America would put a man on the Moon before the end...
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British Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. In December 1912, President William Howard Taft had appointed a National Aerodynamical Laboratory Commission...
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Navy Captain Homer J. Boushey, Jr.—watched by Clark Millikan and William F. Durand—piloted the JATO-equipped Ercoupe at March Air Force Base in Moreno...
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1932 Medalist Jerome C. Hunsaker - 1933 Medalist William E. Boeing - 1934 Medalist William F. Durand - 1935 Medalist George W. Lewis - 1936 Medalist Hugo...
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National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was directed by William F. Durand from 1916. Parameters measured included propeller efficiency, thrust...
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construction. His fifth airplane, the S-5, won him national recognition and F.A.I. pilot's license number 64. His S-6-A received the highest award at the...
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started developing his own DC domestic lighting system and hired physicist William Stanley to work on it. Westinghouse became aware of the new European alternating...
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driven by exhaust gases, to turn a supercharger. In autumn of 1917 William F. Durand, Director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, received...
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flight in an airplane. The inaugural recipient of the trophy was William F. Durand, "a pioneer in aeronautics, naval propulsion and engineering research...
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Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering William F. Durand, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mechanical Engineering;...
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1911, Bethlehem Steel formed a company soccer team known as Bethlehem Steel F.C. Three years later, in 1914, Schwab took the team professional. Until its...
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aerodynamic efficiency of propellers on radial engine aircraft. In 1917, William F. Durand published NACA Technical Report 17 on his work with isolated propellers...
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301–310. Wattendorf, F. L. (1956). "Theodore von Kármán, international scientist". Z. Flugwiss. 4: 163–165. Wattendorf, F. L.; Malina, F. J. (1964). "Theodore...
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Propeller Tests with Airfoil Theory, by William F. Durand, and E. P. Lesley, N.A.C.A .T.R. 196, 1924. Durand, W. F. (1926). Tests on Thirteen Navy Type Model...
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List of aerospace engineers (section F)
first delta wing Pedro Duque (born 1963) – engineer and astronaut William F. Durand (1859–1958) – propeller designer, NACA chair Ludwig Dürr (1878–1956)...
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director in the epilogue. The New York Times review space writer Henry S. F. Cooper Jr. called it a "highly readable memoir", while the Kirkus Review...
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March 22, 1949. Retrieved August 30, 2018. Bates, Charles C. & Fuller, John F. (July 1, 1986). "Chapter 2: The Rebirth of Military Meteorology". America's...
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from the original on March 15, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2016. Vantuono, William C. (October 31, 2015). "From Edward G. Budd to Bombardier Transportation"...
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Harry Franklin Vickers (redirect from Harry F. Vickers)
Awards", regularly updated. Retrieved on 16 March 2010. Flint, Peter B., "Harry F. Vickers, 78, of Sperry Rand, dies", The New York Times, New York, 13 January...
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John L. Harrington (1923–1924) Fred R. Low (1924–1925) William F. Durand (1925–1926) William L. Abbott (1926–1927) Charles M. Schwab (1927–1928) Alex...
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