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Jerome Clarke Hunsaker
Pages 218-223

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... , where his interest in aeronautics became a passion, and he began a study of wind tunnels as a means of obtaining the basic data needed for successfu} flight. He then journeyed to Paris and, with the help of his wife, the former Alice Avery, and Eiffel's assistants, he translated Eiffel's pioneering work in the testing of airplane models.
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... , with its many laboratories; he remained there for sixteen years. His final major achievement, which was attained in 1967, was the supervision and construction of the Navy Supersonic Laboratory at MIT to study aircraft and missile designs involving speeds as high as two thousand miles per hour (a long way from his original forty-mile-per-hour tunnel)
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... He became an honorary fellow of that organization ant! also of the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Imperial College of Science anti Technology of Great Britain.
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... A partial summary of his papers shows the breadth of his interests. The list begins with several papers on wind tunnels, but then moves on to such other subject matter as gas-tight airplane fabric, casein glue use in laminated construction, duralumin aluminum alloys, venturi airspeed meters, spruce airplane compression struts, similitude theory of aerial propellers, airplane rubber shock absorbers, airplane radiators, cavitation research, and a number of papers on static and dynamic stability.
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... In acIdition to his professional life as a scientist, Hunsaker showed a keen interest and competence in business and public affairs. He was a director of Shell Oil Company, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, ]
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