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...first day of work, Grove knew exactly none of this. He merely wanted to make a good impression. Nervous? You can't imagine. Here he was, trained as a fluid dynamicist and going to work in materials chemistry. (The math, everyone promised him, was pretty much the same.) Someone asked him to study the electrical characteristics of MOS. Grove delivered a sharp, comprehensive report. His bosses were impressed...
DIED. Frank Malina, 69, pioneering American aeronautical engineer whose early work on solid-fuel rockets helped the U.S. land the first man on the moon; of a heart attack; in Paris. Malina and the late aero-dynamicist Theodore von Karman helped found what became the California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the late 1930s to research high-altitude rockets. During World War II, the two scientists developed solid-fuel rockets to give propeller-driven aircraft faster takeoffs. In 1945, they helped design one of the U.S.'s first high-altitude sounding rockets, the WAC Corporal. Malina left...
...unusual design became known. "I hope she does not work," said one rival designer, "or I will have to forget everything I ever learned." Even Mariner's supporters had fears. Skipper Ted Turner thought the boat "did not look right" when he first saw her. M.I.T. Hydro-dynamicist Jerome Milgram, who did preliminary consulting for Chance, had warned in a 1972 article that promising test-tank readings might not be reliable...
Wasp Waists. Searching for a prop that could be used efficiently above 450 m.p.h., Hamilton's engineers, led by Chief Aero-dynamicist George Rosen, tried all sorts of shapes. One design, intended to sidestep shock waves, had curved blades, quite like the swept-back wings of a fast modern fighter. Another had a blade with a pinched-in "waist." Some blades were short and broad so that they could spin rapidly without nearing sonic speed. All these designs proved unsatisfactory...
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