Memorial Tributes Volume 5 (1992) / Chapter Skim
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William B. Bergen
William B. Bergen
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At the time, GLM was developing the PBM-l flying boat, using the then new concept of large extrusions in an innovative wing design in which all bending loads were taken by the spar caps with a thin skin acting mainly as a torsion box. The intent was to avoid the weight 27
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The company was understandably skeptical of these complex analyses but authorized the construction of a dynamically similar flutter model after Bergen had demonstrated the phenomenon of flutter with a simple tabletop wince tunnel driven by a cooling fan. A dynamically similar model of the PBM-1 was quickly constructed, probably the first scaled flutter model ever built, and tested at NACA, Langley.
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Aircraft developed cluring this period included the Martin 404, the XB-5l, and the XP6M-~. Bill Bergen left Martin Marietta early in 1967 and joined North American/Rockwell shortly afterward.
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He was also a member of the Association ofthe U.S.Army (IndustrialAclvisoryGroup) ;Armed Forces Association; Air Force Association; Society of Automotive Engineers; Delta Tau Delta, of which he was a member at MIT; the National Space Club; and the Conquistadore del Cielo.
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He enjoyocl horseback riding, golf, tennis, hunting, particularly cluck hunting on the Chesapeake, and fishing. He held both single and multiengine pilot certificates.
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