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Ellis Sion has got it all backward. He studied aeronautical engineering and toils in jewelry stores, where most employees work on commission but he takes a salary. In a country where workers start planning for retirement in their 20s, he's plugging away at 84 and won't be shutting it down anytime soon. His golden years are about labor, not leisure; he wants to get up early and head to the shop, not get an early dinner and head to bed.
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Like any good quarterback who needs the most inexperienced freshman to understand his play assignment, Air Force's Tim Jefferson is trying to explain aeronautical engineering to a sports writer. He dumbs it down the best he can, explaining how air flow over and under the wings of an airplane affect the lift, and if the angle of attack gets too high, the plane will stall. Knowing his audience, he didn't bother getting into the mathematical formulas he had been writing out in preparation for his final.
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Arnold August "Zach" Zachow, 88, of Willow Valley Manor Retirement Community, formerly of Rosemont, PA, died on Saturday, November 5, 2011 at Arbor View in Lancaster, PA. He was born on August 31, 1923 in Pascagoula, MS and was the son of the late Arnold and Celeste Zachow of Gulfport, MS. Zach served with the US Navy during World War II and was assigned to the Navy's V-12 program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY where he studied aeronautical engineering and was awarded both bachelors and masters degrees in engineering. After the war, Zach worked for many companies including Bell Aircraft in Buffalo, NY where he designed and tested missile systems; Module Incinerators of Philadelphia, where he designed a unique commercial waste incinerator. At General Electric in Va...
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Annabel J. Corna was working as a bookkeeper during World War II when she heard a radio commercial offering women full engineering scholarships to Pennsylvania State University. All the men were at war, and engineers were needed," her daughter Deborah Corna said. Mrs. Corna, then Annabel Johnson, joined the first group of women admitted to the university's engineering department, and earned a certificate in aeronautical engineering.
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Richard Lugg moved SonicBlue's headquarters to Maine when he brought his family here about a year ago from California. But Lugg has had a long relationship with Maine - he's called it home a number of times during a life lived around the world. Lugg's father was in the military and worked on the United States' global ballistic missile defense system. Lugg attended some grade school in Massachusetts and during that time skied in Maine.
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Joseph A. Tramuta of the Town of Tonawanda, a flight engineer whose career spanned from World War II to the space age, died Wednesday in Millard Fillmore Hospital after a long illness. He was 92. A native of Fredonia, Mr. Tramuta was a graduate of Fredonia High School, where he was an all-conference guard on the 1937 football team. He received a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering in 1942 from Tri-State College, now Trine University.
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, 78, of Strasburg, died Sunday, July 24, 2011, at home after a long battle with lung cancer. He was the husband of Bonnie (McDonnell) Anderson since January 22, 1966. Joe was a Veteran of the US Air Force and trained pilots and crew on the B-29 Bomber during the Korean War. He retired from Smith's Aeronautical Engineering Company and had his own television sales and service business.
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NORFOLK - , 88, passed away Monday, Jan. 3, 2011 at the Showalter Center assisted living facility in Blacksburg, Va. He was born Jan. 4, 1922 in Philadelphia and grew up in Middletown, Del. In high school he was on the basketball and track and field teams, as well as being active in the Boy Scouts. Upon completing high school, he attended Tri-State College (now Tri- State University), but like many patriotic young men of his generation, he left college to serve in the military during World War II. He was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy and was trained as a fighter pilot. He flew many combat missions from Jeep carriers in the Pacific campaign and was decorated for his accomplishments, including the downing of an enemy combatant in an aerial battle. After th...
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HACKENSACK - Aspiring engineering, aeronautical and science students at Bergen County Academies got an early glimpse Wednesday of a career in space exploration, its hardships and challenges and rewards, along with an international perspective. Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev told about 350 students of some of the challenges he faced before becoming a cosmonaut, his participation in the international space mission of 2010 and the effect that weightlessness has on the human body.
