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SEYMOUR M. BOGDONOFF
SEYMOUR M. BOGDONOFF
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MILES, ALEXANDER SMITS, AND SAU-HAI LAM SEYMOUR MOSES BOGDONOFF, Robert Porter Patterson Professor of Aeronautical Engineering Emeritus, died on January 10, 2005, his 84th birthday, at Helene Fuld Hospital, in Trenton, New Jersey, of injuries sustained in a fall in his home in Princeton. Professor Bogdonoff, known to many simply as "Boggy," was born in New York City in 1921.
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Boggy's interests were in supersonic and hypersonic aerodynamics -- highspeed flights that involve enormous mechanical and heat transfer loads on the vehicles and complex interactions with strong shock waves. Boggy pioneered this world and spent a lifetime exploring its challenges.
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He challenged the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission by bringing down from the back woods of Maine a vintage orange Citroën Deux Chevaux, a car that failed to meet almost all US safety standards, and he overcame all bureaucratic nightmares to drive it triumphantly to work. In his later years he worked to establish a driver education program for senior citizens.
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That legacy continues today, with the earlier researchers and students in turn training second, third, and fourth generations of aeronautical engineers. One can still go to such places as the Air Force Research Lab in Dayton, Ohio, or the von Karman Institute in Brussels, or DLR in Göttingen, and find wind tunnels that are copies of those designed by Boggy, run by people who were trained by him.
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, Zelda Bogdonoff (of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) , and Alan Bogdonoff (of New London, Connecticut)
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