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Alexander H. Flax: Highlights of an Engineering Career
Alexander H. Flax: Highlights of an Engineering Career
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These included the 0-52 a highwing, strut-braced observation aircraft and last of a line and an era; the P-40 fighter—the most advanced fighter available in quantity at the outbreak of World War IT; the XP-60 and XP62 experimental fighter aircraft never produced in quantity; the SB2C-l a Navy dive bomber that entered service in 1943; and the C-46 a military transport aircraft extensively used to "fly the hump" in the China-Burma-India theater. Flax's work 1 7
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Helicopter technology was then in its infancy even for single-rotor machines, and the additional complication of tandem rotors required starting from scratch on many questions of design, analysis, and testing. Nevertheless, Piasecki won two major design competitions—the HUP-1 for the Navy and HU-16 for the Army/Air Force.
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This work, which began with boron fibers in the early 1960s and quickly expanded to include graphite fibers and KevIar, has found particular application in helicopters and vertical takeoff aircraft, in some of which more than 40 percent of the structural weight may be in fiber composites. Other areas of research emphasized during Flax's service with the Air Force included the development of precision-guicled weapons and the corresponding aircraft targeting systems and their sensors.
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Flax is a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the Defense Intelligence Agency Scientific Advisory Committee, and a consultant to the Defense Science Board. He has been a U.S.
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Flax is a recipient of the Lawrence Sperry Award of the institute of Aeronautical Sciences, the Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal, the Defense intelligence Agency Exceptional Civilian Service Medal, the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, and the Von Karman Medal of the NATO Acivisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development. He was also a recipient of the General Thomas D
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