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1954181286Detroit: UAW -CIO Education Department 1954. 44p. stapled wraps 8.5x11 inches very good. UAW-CIO publication 321. Back cover design by Jack Maschoff designer of the UAW seal depicts a circle of realistic multiracial faces around the slogan "Guaranteed annual wage" with caption "Wages the year round because families live the year round.". UAW -CIO Education Department unknown books
1957129165n.p.: UAW 1957. 176p. wraps. UAW unknown books
197746908Detroit: UAW 1977. 316p. wraps neatly ex libris. UAW unknown books
1998243785Detroit: UAW-CIO 1998. Paperback. 224p. paperback very good. Also included is a worn copy of the 1995 constitution. UAW-CIO paperback books
1998261109Detroit: UAW-CIO 1998. Paperback. 152p. wraps 4x8 inches four page "Amendments to Article 16 initiation fees and dues" laid in very good condition. UAW-CIO paperback books
1963006384Edinburg Indiana: Amateur Rocket Assoc. 1963. SCARCE. First Printing. Very Good Plus 1/2" tear top edge front wrapper wrappers lightly soiled small stain bottom edge of page block. The first unit in a five part joint venture between NASA and the Amateur Rocket Association. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Amateur Rocket Assoc. Paperback books
17086Aerospace Archive of eight scarce courses and technical reports relating to Jet Propulsion and Aero-Elasticity published between 1945 and 1950 a key period in the development of these fields. Included material was published by the California Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology the US Air Force and Boeing Aircraft Company. These documents all belonged to Joseph Kelley Jr. who served in the Air Force during WWII as Director of the Structural Design Unit at the Wright Air Development Center in Dayton OH. This collection of reports demonstrates the high-level of importance that the US military placed upon the growing field of aerodynamics and jet propulsion; in the waning days of W.W.II and the early days of the Cold War Space Race this information was more crucial and critical than ever. All have ownership signature Kelly; few minor annotations in pencil. All in very good condition. <br/><br/>During WWII jet engine technology was of utmost importance for the US military as Nazi scientists had developed advanced fighter planes and bombers with jet technology; after World War II ended understanding and harnessing jet power was essential both for aviation and in early space exploration. As such jet technology was fiercely important cutting-edge top secret military information. The very rare 1945 course book on "Jet Propulsion" is even marked "Confidential" throughout; on the front cover though "Confidential" has been crossed out in pencil. This documents is published by California Institute of Technology Caltech home of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL. JPL was funded in by the U.S. Army's Ordnance Corps beginning in 1944 and the lab would eventually involve technologies for space flight secure communications spacecraft navigation and control and planetary exploration. By 1945 when this report was published JPL had a staff of almost 300 and the group had begun to launch test vehicles from White Sands New Mexico to an altitude of 40 miles 60 kilometers monitoring their performance by radio and war surplus radar equipment. Interestingly two of the lectures were taught by JPL co-founder Hsue-Shen Tsien Qian Xuesen who contributed to the Manhattan Project; later under the pressure of deportation for suspicions of association with Communists he returned to China where he made important contributions to China's missile and space program. <br/><br/>"High Speed Aerodynamic Lecture Series" 1948 features the research and writing of Dr. Bernhard H. Goethert a German scientist who developed German Nazi jets during WWII. Goethert came to the US via Operation Paperclip a secret US intelligence program in which more than 1600 German scientists engineers and technicians were brought to the US after WWII to work for the federal government. As Cold War tensions increased after the end of WWII both the United States and the Soviet Union were eager to work with German scientists who could help develop advanced engines in the early years of the Space Race. <br/><br/>After WWII MIT emerged as the nation's largest nonindustrial defense contractor and almost all major research in MIT's Department of Aeronautics was performed for the military. Four reports in our archive come from MIT's Aeroelastic and Structures Research Laboratory which led the design of aircraft structures for high-speed flight virtually creating the modern specialty of aeroelasticity. These documents evaluate wing loads elasticity and the effects of different forces or stressors on the aircraft. The Boeing Company was an essential WWII-era producer of military aircraft but after 1945 the company returned to the business of transporting goods and passengers. During World War II Boeing and its partners worked together to produce a staggering 98965 aircraft including the famed B-17 Flying Fortress. The momentum from the war effort served to launch the company's tremendous postwar advances in aerospace technology as seen in this 1948 report which examines how to best stabilize planes caught in a gust of wind. <br/><br/><br/>The following reports are included in the archive: <br/><br/>1 California Institute of Technology. "Jet Propulsion: A Course Given for Officers of the United States Army and Navy by the Staff of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory California Institute of Technology." Section I. Pasadena CA: California Institute of Technology 1945. Original paper wraps. 11.25 x 9 in. 492 pages. Table of contents lists lectures on topics such as: "Principles of Aerotherodynamics" "Chemistry of Combustion" "The Solid Propellant Rocket" and "The Liquid Propellant Rockets." Numerous technical diagrams graphs and illustrations throughout including some large fold-outs. Marked "Confidential" throughout with some pencil annotations by the owner. Copy number 20 of an unknown limited run. Very rare with 0 copies listed in any institutional or university collections per OCLC Worldcat.<br/><br/>2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Report On An Investigation Of Stresses In Aircraft Structures Under Dynamic Loading." January 21 1949. Report by R.L. Bisplinghoff G. Isakson T.H.H. Pian H.I. Flomenhoft and T.F. O'Brien. Quarto. Original blue covers. Spiral bound. 377 pages Filled with diagrams mathematical equations and illustrations throughout. Chapters on: Basic mathematical Approach to the Problem of Determining transient Stresses in Unrestrained Elastic Structures Characteristics of the principal Oscillations of the Aircraft Structure and The Landing Problem The Gust Problem and The Gun Blast Problem. Only 3 copies listed in institutional or university collections in the United States per OCLC Worldcat.<br/><br/>3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Report On Gust Loads On Rigid And Elastic Airplanes." August 15 1949. Report by: R.L. Bisplinghoff G. Isakson and T.F. O'Brien. Quarto. Original blue wraps. Spiral bound. 112 pages. Filled with diagrams mathematical equations and illustrations. Includes chapters on "The Rigid Airplane in Incompressible Flow" and "Gust Loads at Supersonic Speeds" among others. Authors notably thank 3 women who worked as computers for the project in the Acknowledgement section. Per OCLC Worldcat only 1 copy of this report at MIT Libraries is held by any institutional or university collection.<br/><br/>4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "A Two-Dimensional Study Of The Impact Of Wedges On a Water Surface for the Bureau of Aeronautics." March 20 1950. Report by R.L. Bisplinghoff and C.S. Doherty. Original blue wraps. Spiral bound. 115 pages. Filled with diagrams mathematical equations and illustrations. Per OCLC Worldcat only 1 copy of this report at MIT Libraries is held by any institutional or university collection.<br/><br/>5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The Prediction Of Stresses In A Structure Under An Arbitrary Dynamic Loading. Technical Report for Contract N5 ori-07833 to Office of Naval Research." July 15 1949. Report by T.H.H. Pian and J.N. Siddall. Quarto. Original blue wraps. Spiral bound. 32 pages. Filled with diagrams mathematical equations and illustrations. "An experimental method of predicting the stress at any point in a complete elastic structure under an arbitrary dynamic loading is described." Only 3 copies of this report is listed in any institutional collection per OCLC Worldcat.<br/><br/>6 United States Air Force Air Material Command. "AF Technical Report 5706. Prediction Of Wing Loads Due To Gusts Including Aero-Elastic Effects. Part I. Formulation of the Method." A.T.I. No. 24322. Dayton OH: United States Air Force Air Material Command 21 July 1947. Quarto. Original paper wrappers staplebound. 90 pages. Filled with scientific mathematical equations and diagrams. No copies of this document listed in any institutional or university collections as per OCLC Worldcat.<br/><br/>7 Dr. Bernard H. Goethert. "High Speed Aerodynamic Lecture Series / Part I. Experimental Facts On High Speed Aerodynamics And Brief Comparison With Theory." Given at Air Force Institute of Technology Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton OH. Winter Quarter 1948. Quarto. Original paper wraps stablebound. 76 pages. Filled with 117 illustrations listed in Index. Goethert was a German aeronautics scientist who developed Nazi jets during World War II; he later became chief scientist for the Air Force Systems Command near Washington. From the Foreword: "This series of eight lectures delivered during the period from 16 February 1948 until 5 March 1948 .was intended to provide a demonstrative picture of the characteristic of high-speed aerodynamics." Lectures topics on Continuity Law from Compressible Fluids and Some Applications; Shock Waves and Propagation of Pressure Disturbances; Pressure Distribution Lift and Center of Pressure on Airfoils; Drag of Airfoil Section sand Flow Separation Due to Shock Wave Formation; Supersonic Flow Around Sharp Corners and Characteristics of Airfoils at Supersonic Speeds; Wave Reflection in Supersonic Flow; Interaction Between Shock Waves and Boundary Layer; and Longitudinal Stability and Trim of Airplanes. <br/><br/>8 Boeing Aircraft Company. "Document No. D-9065. Stability Equations For An Airplane In A Gradient Gust." Dated 3-30-48. Quarto. Original report cover. Screw bound. 35 pages. 14 pages are mimeographed from a handwritten manuscript on blueprint paper including several hand-drawn diagrams and scientific formulas. Sections on "Stability Equations Neglection Unsteady Lift" "Stability Equations Including Unsteady Lift" and "Other Unsteady Lift Methods." Rare internal document from Boeing with No known copies of this document is listed in any institutional or university collections per OCLC Worldcat. unknown books
1973210406Detroit: UAW 1973. Pamphlet. 6p. wraps 8.5x11 inches very good. UAW unknown books
1984147781Washington DC: Kelley Press 1984. Paperback. 275p. lightly worn wraps; second printing. Pocket book format. Kelley Press paperback books
1960168847San Jose / Salinas: I. A. of M. and A. W. 1960. Respectively 26p. and 7p. similar 5.5x3.5 inch staplebound wraps format the one laid into the other. A rear blank for "Notes" has been torn out causing its signature opposite title leaf to be loose. Staples are a tad rusty centerfold of the longer booklet has sustained a small tear and blue-pencil smears pencil used as bookmark. Fully usable copies. The pair. I. A. of M. and A. W. unknown books
1970216453Washington DC: The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers 1970. Hardcover. Twenty four professionally bound volumes of the newspaper a complete run up to Feb. 1970. Large folios 11.5x19.25 inches all bound in maroon or brick red buckram with spine titles the newsprint is evenly browned without any chipping and still flexible some issues have mailing labels no other flaws. Illustrated. A very large and heavy set international shipping will be expensive. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers hardcover books
