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Cold War Aerospace Technology Oral History Project Records
The Cold War Aerospace Technology Oral History Project primarily contains oral histories gathered from several workers in the field of Aerospace Technology during the Cold War (1946-1992). With few exceptions, the interviewees were all engineers and worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on projects ranging from stealth and fly-by-wire technology to jet propulsion and foreign intelligence gathering, etc.
Dr. Hans von Ohain Papers
Dr. Hans von Ohain was the co-inventor of the first successful jet engine. After World War II, he moved to Dayton, Ohio where he was a research scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. His papers contain patents, correspondence, speeches, technical reports, scientific articles, awards, and photographs. Some documents are in German and French, but the majority of the collection is in English.
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- Bilek, Victor H., 1918- 1
- Brown, Squire L. (Squire Lee), 1941- 1
- Dufour, Howard R., 1915-2009 1
- Jenney, Gavin D. 1
- Lusczek, Joseph J., Jr. 1
- Mattice, James J. 1
- Morgensen, Otto Peter, 1905-2010 1
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- Ohain, Hans von, 1911-1998 1
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