Word: kantrowitz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain what the aerospace-men will bring back from the moon and the planets. Perhaps only rocks, perhaps exotic new minerals. But history's lesson is that explorers seldom find the expected. An eloquent case for aerospace is made by top Avco Corp. Researcher Dr. Arthur Kantrowitz: "To characterize aerospace as a growth industry is to take a narrow view. It is more like the discovery of America-a new opportunity for mankind. I keep telling my children that I wouldn't be surprised if their children lived in some brave new world in space, just...
...helicopters, height-finding radar, missile re-entry systems. Avco currently wrings 65% of its sales out of products that came off its own drawing boards in the past decade, and it is the prime contractor on 90% of its defense work. Says its top research man, Dr. Arthur Kantrowitz: "We bid only on contracts in which we have a solid ad vantage over the competition...
...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...
...What Kantrowitz, who perhaps more than anyone else rates the title of "Mr. Nose Cone," had to offer was experience and expertness in a testing device known as the shock tube. The problems of nose-cone re-entry were fearsome enough on paper. It was understood all too well that an ICBM re-entry body of cone and warhead would have to crash back into the earth's atmosphere at near-meteor speed of 15,000 m.p.h., with enough motion of energy to vaporize five times its weight of iron. Piling up ahead of the re-entry body would...
...rushes a hot shock wave that hits the test model at actual re-entry speed and temperature. The flow lasts no more than one-thousandth of a second, but it is enough to yield volumes of scientific information. After only six months of work with this violent instrument. Kantrowitz was able to send the Air Force the first firm data about heat and air conditions around a nose cone at its moment of crisis...