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DIED. William T. Schwendler, 73, a founder and chief engineer (1930-50) of the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp.; of heart disease; in Farmingdale, N.Y. Schwendler helped design World War II combat aircraft (the Wildcat, Hellcat and Avenger) that accounted for more than two-thirds of enemy planes shot down by the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theater...
...similar reasons, he still flies himself. He says: "When you're alone 5000 feet in the air, lots of things about a plane become important that you can overlook on the ground." The details of design are left to young William T. ("Bill") Schwendler, 40, who bosses the company's 500 engineers. Bill Schwendler sits down with Roy & Jake when a new design is gestating, and they 11 mull it over. He has a sixth sense as to what Roy wants. Thus, to get a prototype of the newest Grumman plane, Roy simply wrote out a memo describing...
...discharged, he was expert enough to get the job of general manager of the Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp. at $4,200 a year. In 1929, the flurry of plane company mergers made Grumman's job a poor one. Jake Swirbul, who was works manager at Loening, and Bill Schwendler, just getting started as a designer, were in the same boat. The trio decided to start their own company to repair planes. Grumman plunked $16,875 into the new company, Swirbul $8,125, and Schwendler...
...acres of floor space in the new red brick buildings, Bill Schwendler's engineers are already poring over drawing boards on new Navy projects, including plans for a revolutionary type of fighter. The Navy has piled on enough contracts to keep the staff busy for two years. The Navy does not know what kind of planes it will need in five years, nor how many it can then afford. But if the Navy can afford to keep only one plane company in business, that company will be Grumman...
This was all Grumman's balding chief engineer Bill Schwendler wanted to hear. He went back to work, revamped his de signs, reviewed them with many another Navy fighter pilot as the job grew. By August, less than four months after O'Hare had laid down the fighter's law, the prototype was flying...