The Engineer Who Has “Saved More Lives Than Any Single Person in the History of Aviation” | 80beats
The number one cause of plane crashes used to be controlled flight into terrain (pdf), accidents where pilots unintentionally collide with an obstacle. A pilot unable to see through fog, for example, could fly straight into a mountain, crashing an otherwise perfectly functional plane. Such accidents killed over 9000 people—until aviation engineer Don Bateman’s crash-avoidance technology changed ...
Engineer Who Tried To Stop Challenger Disaster Dead At 73
Roger Boisjoly, who died on January 6 at 73-years-old, was an engineer who tried to stop space shuttle Challenger from launching in 1986. Boisjoly was an engineer at solid rocket booster manufacturer Morton Thiokol. He started to warn NASA as early as 1985 that the joints in the boosters could fail in cold weather. He and four other space shuttle engineers argued on the eve of the launch in 1986 ...
Record response to call for new astronauts
GREENBELT, Md., Feb. 7 (UPI) -- NASA says it received more than 6,300 applications for a position in the space agency's next class of astronauts, twice as many as it typically receives.
Engineer debunks theory of flight
It's a common myth that even Einstein is said to have believed. But we're wrong about how planes fly.
Joseph A. Tramuta, engineer for space programs
Joseph A. Tramuta of the Town of Tonawanda, a flight engineer whose career spanned from World War II to the space age, died Wednesday in Millard Fillmore Hospital after a long illness. He was 92.
Engineer Who Warned Of Challenger Disaster Dies At 73
On the eve of the ill-fated flight, Roger Boisjoly and several colleagues argued against launching because of predicted cold weather, but they were overruled. Topics: People In The News Design and Development Safety Aerospace
Robert A. Citron, engineer who pioneered commercializing space, dies at 79
Robert A. Citron, an aerospace engineer and intrepid entrepreneur, whose boyhood fantasy of traveling beyond Earth inspired pioneering ventures to commercialize space, died Jan. 31 at his home in Bellevue, Click to Continue »
Red Bull engineer Adrian Newey pledges future to team and says he could not imagine working anywhere else
Red Bull engineer denies possibility of move to Ferrari saying leaving would be akin to walking out on your kids.
For Uganda, the world is not enough
His neighbors think he's crazy, but Ugandan flight engineer Chris Nsamba wants to fly to the top layer of the Earth's atmosphere in a homemade orbital glider. It could be the start of a Ugandan space program.
Red Bull engineer Adrian Newey pledges future to team as Kimi Raikkonen tops the timesheets at winter testing in Jerez
Red Bull engineer denies possibility of move to Ferrari saying leaving would be akin to walking out on your kids.