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ARTHUR P. ADAMSON
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... After high school, he spent two years at a junior college in Coffeyville before packing his bags in 1939 and heading for Los Angeles. He moved in with his aunt and enrolled in the University of Southern California's mechanical engineering program, supporting himself with summer jobs in an aircraft plant and a part-time job in the engineering school's mechanical engineering lab.
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... A successful launch powered the first satellite into an Earth-orbiting trajectory on 24,000 pounds of thrust. "His creative genius led to several aircraft engine programs," said USC classmate and fellow GE engineer Robert Hoffman, a resident of Redwood City, California.
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... The team demonstrated its performance in flight tests on the Boeing 727-100 and MD 80 aircraft. When fuel prices dropped, interest in the fuel-efficient UDF engine waned and the unique engine never entered airline service.
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... Adamson, of Schenectady, and is survived by son David Adamson, daughter Judith Adamson, five grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, brother Charles Adamson, and five nephews and five nieces. He will be greatly missed.


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