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WADC-41, T-10 Parachute Static Line (16), 13/14 Jul 1955
File — Box 127, Folder: 13
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Dave Gold Parachute Collection is a very large, complex collection of papers, research reports, blueprints, photographs, film, books, newspapers, magazines, and scrapbooks. When it was received by Special Collections and Archives there was virtually no organization to the collection and there were many duplicate items in the collection. The collection is divided into nine series, many with multiple subseries. Since the finding aid is over 200 pages in length, a Finding Aid Index is...
Dates:
13/14 Jul 1955
WADC-46, Modified B-5 Parachute (1), 12 Dec 1956
File — Box 127, Folder: 18
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Dave Gold Parachute Collection is a very large, complex collection of papers, research reports, blueprints, photographs, film, books, newspapers, magazines, and scrapbooks. When it was received by Special Collections and Archives there was virtually no organization to the collection and there were many duplicate items in the collection. The collection is divided into nine series, many with multiple subseries. Since the finding aid is over 200 pages in length, a Finding Aid Index is...
Dates:
12 Dec 1956
WADC Beatrice Finkelstein and food, 1956 Aug 30
File — Box NGS-18
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The subseries Negatives by Subject includes photos of both topics and people. It consists primarily of large format (4” x 5”) black and white negatives in envelopes with original descriptions and dates, from the photographer. To a lesser extent, the subseries also includes some 120 negatives, 35mm negatives, and color negatives.These negatives may contain additional shots or views related to one that appeared in the newspaper. It is important to note that the date on the envelope...
Dates:
1956 Aug 30
WADC Components and Systems Laboratory: Procurement Practices, 1951 Dec.
File — Box 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists primarily of information on the development of radio technologies at General Electric in the 1920s and of radio and radar technologies at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from the 1930s through 1950s. Materials related to Richmond’s work at General Electric include mainly notes, diagrams, and test data concerning various radio models, including the Radiola, from about 1925-1928. Materials related to Richmond’s work at Wright Field include blueprints and schematic...
Dates:
1951 Dec.
WADC Five Men in Mock-Up Plane for 5 Days, 1957 Aug 5
File — Box NGS-18
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The subseries Negatives by Subject includes photos of both topics and people. It consists primarily of large format (4” x 5”) black and white negatives in envelopes with original descriptions and dates, from the photographer. To a lesser extent, the subseries also includes some 120 negatives, 35mm negatives, and color negatives.These negatives may contain additional shots or views related to one that appeared in the newspaper. It is important to note that the date on the envelope...
Dates:
1957 Aug 5
WADC Flight Test - Five Men to Stay 5 Days in Mockup Plane, 1958 Mar 21
File — Box NGS-18
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The subseries Negatives by Subject includes photos of both topics and people. It consists primarily of large format (4” x 5”) black and white negatives in envelopes with original descriptions and dates, from the photographer. To a lesser extent, the subseries also includes some 120 negatives, 35mm negatives, and color negatives.These negatives may contain additional shots or views related to one that appeared in the newspaper. It is important to note that the date on the envelope...
Dates:
1958 Mar 21
WADC Gondola Diagrams, Undated
File — Box 4, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Rudi Berndt Papers primarily document Berndt’s work in parachute development, in both Germany and the United States, from the WWII era through the Cold War. Educational records, as well as a significant amount of material pertaining to Berndt’s arrival in the United States as part of Operation Paperclip, are also included. Of particular note are Berndt’s memoirs, which describe his early life in Germany through his retirement in 1991, in Series IV.Series I, German Life and...
Dates:
Undated
WADC Parachutes, 1957 Sept 19
File — Box NGS-18
Scope and Contents
T/Sgt. Raymond Prudhomme and T/Sgt. L. Chicoine, with rescue container. S/Sgt. Joe B. Gettys in parachute drying room. S/Sgt. Joe B. Gettys, S/Sgt. Kenneth B. Larsen, S/Sgt. Wm. Abrams folding parachute. Joseph W. Hershey, C. J. Heienreich, working on scale model of parachute.
Dates:
1957 Sept 19
WADC Report 52-256 Low-Range Air-Speed Indicator for Helicopters Contract# AF33(038)-22265, 1952 Oct
File — Box 29, Folder: 12
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Bernard Lindenbaum Vertical Flight Research Collection is a very large collection documenting the history and development of helicopters and V/STOL aircraft from the mid-1940s to the 1990s. The collection contains research reports, conference reports, blueprints, and film documenting this development. Researchers should be aware that, except for the photographs series, the collection was minimally processed in that each box was fully inventoried, but no effort was made to place the...
Dates:
1952 Oct
WADC Research Radiation, contract with Miami Valley Hospital, 1958 Dec 2
File — Box NGS-18
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The subseries Negatives by Subject includes photos of both topics and people. It consists primarily of large format (4” x 5”) black and white negatives in envelopes with original descriptions and dates, from the photographer. To a lesser extent, the subseries also includes some 120 negatives, 35mm negatives, and color negatives.These negatives may contain additional shots or views related to one that appeared in the newspaper. It is important to note that the date on the envelope...
Dates:
1958 Dec 2