Hartford / East Hartford / Reading / Seattle / Boston / New York / Kansas City / /
Company
United Aircraft Corporation / CurtissWright / Deere / Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company / Preface All / the Boeing / Pratt & Whitney Tool Company / Pratt & Whitney Aircraft / Curtiss-Wright / While Curtiss-Wright / Transport Corporation / Wright-Martin Company / General Motors / Douglas Aircraft / Army Air Corp / Swannet Press / Pratt & Whitney / Willgoos / Rolls Royce / HP / Wright Aeronautical Corporation / Engineering (Pratt & Whitney) Frederick Brant Rentschler / on running United Aircraft / /
New England Air Museum / East Hartford plant / University of Washington / Kansas State College / Mechanical College / /
IndustryTerm
gas turbines / aircraft manufacturers / energy / metal / design tools / front bank / telephone conversation / telephone interrogation / rear bank / technology front / /
Organization
University of Washington / US Post Office / Architects of the R-2800 / Navy / Naval Air Training Command / Air Corps / Harvard / Experimental Test Department / HP Navy / Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College / United States Senate / Congress / Allison Division of General Motors / Kansas State College / Experimental Department / Black Committee / /
Person
Gerald Nye / Jesse Hendershot / George Jackson Mead / Andy Willgoos / Ronald Fernandez / Frederick B. Rentschler / Joe Ballard / Graham White / James Howell / Larry Carlson / Louis Johnson / Gordon Beckwith / Harvey Lippincott / Elton Sceggel / Richard C. Wellman / Black thought / William A. Moffett / Margaret Jacobs / Fred Rentschler / Frank Walker / George Meloy / Huntsville / Guy Vaughn / George J. Mead / Greg Swanson / Luke Hobbs / L. Morgan Porter / Robert Schlaifer / Albert R. Crocker / Earl Ryder / Cary Hoge Mead / Hap Arnold / Shirley / Val Cronstedt / George E. Meloy / Hugo Black / Don Brown / Dana Waring / Morgan Porter / John Delaney / Bill Boeing / A. Gordon Emslie / Robert Gorton / Albert Crocker / /
Position
brilliant engineer and capable manager / President / Vice President / shrewd / tough businessman / General / head / founder / engineer / engineering officer / author / designer / Representative / Admiral / draftsman / fair and reasonable manager / Aviation Historian / engine designer / Engineering Manager / capable chief engineer / civilian experimental engineer / model / Wasp-powered Model / Assistant Secretary / writer / professor of mechanical engineering / Porter / manager / the test engineers and personnel / engine inspector / /
Product
DC-2 / Boeing 247 / DC-3 / monoplane / /
ProvinceOrState
Ohio / Alabama / North Dakota / Connecticut / Missouri / Texas / Wyoming / Manitoba / New York / /
No Short Days: The Struggle to Develop the R-2800 "Double Wasp" Crankshaft