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Raymond L. Bisplinghoff
Raymond L. Bisplinghoff
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and the University of Missouri at RolIa; his career-Ion" contribution to the U.S. military services, first as an officer in World War IT and later as an adviser and leader of research programs; and his executive service at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Ray's real contribution cluring his MIT stay, however, was the renewecI life anct vitality given to the subject of aeronautical engineering through his leaclership in teaching, research, and writing and (departmental management. It was also in this perio that Bisplinghoff was principal coauthor (with his four stuclents- later professors and colleagues Holt Ashley, Robert
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With one of his colleagues, H Guyford Stever, Bisplinghoff conducted an extensive three-year research program on the effects of nuclear blasts on flying aircraft; their studies included participation in the Eniwetok Atoll bomb tests in 1951 and 1952.
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In these confusing times, NSF was asked to strengthen engineering research and its application of newly emerging science to useful technologies. As deputy director of NSF, Ray served with director William McElroy and later with Ray's former MIT colleague Guy Stever.
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Air Force, the Distinguished Service Award from NSF, the Extraorctinary Service Medal from the Federal Aviation Administration, the Distinguished Service Medal from NASA, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Cincinnati. He also received numerous medals and awards for his professional engineering work, including the Godfrey L
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He was also an honorary fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Most of all, Ray will be remembered by his many friends and colleagues for his thorough, professional engineering approach to his many jobs, a practice in which he had no superior.
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