"Rocket Plane" provides vignettes of actions taken by the aerospace sector over the last 60 years. The author participated as a pioneer in the successive blossomings of the Atomic Age, the Guided Missile Age, and the Space Age. The book covers his pre-engineering life at college at Cornell and in the Navy during WW II; his time in post war grad school at NYU; his work on the atomic bomb in New Mexico; followed successively by jobs in Southern California in the guided missile field at Convair/Pomona and then in space endeavors at Aerojet/Azusa and later at TRW in Redondo Beach, with a stint as...
"Rocket Plane" provides vignettes of actions taken by the aerospace sector over the last 60 years. The author participated as a pioneer in the success...