Word: avco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Someone. Among the guests at that party was a trustee of Ithaca's Cornell University named Victor Emanuel. Emanuel was also board chairman of Avco Corp., which was already deeply interested in the U.S. ICBM program. He fell into conversation about the project's difficulties-particularly that of testing re-entry techniques in earthly laboratories. Said one of the group, pointing to a heavy-shouldered man: "I believe we have someone right here who can help...
...someone was Dr. Arthur Kantrowitz, a Cornell professor of aeronautical engineering. Within minutes, Emanuel and Kantrowitz were deep in conversation. Soon Kantrowitz was heading up a staff at Avco's newly established research laboratory at Everett, Mass...
From that point on, real progress could be made, and both Avco and its respected competitor. General Electric Co., went to work along paths that at times diverged and at times converged...
Flaming Arc. Thus, even while the heat-sink cones were still being tested, both G.E. and Avco started work on a new kind of cone. It was deliberately designed so that some of its material would be "ablated"-vaporized and blown away into nothingness by the intensely hot air through which it raced. Ablating cones promised a weight advantage, but not even the shock tube was adequate to test them at the research level. Therefore a new testing device, the arc wind tunnel, was tailored...
...Avco...