American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Organization

Staff Only

Historical Note

The AIAA was founded in 1963 from the merger of two earlier societies: the American Rocket Society (ARS), founded in 1930 as the American Interplanetary Society (AIS), and the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences (IAS), founded in 1932 as the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Pomer Family Scrapbook

Collection — Box Scrapbook Box 42

Identifier: 2007-05-11-A

Contents of the Collection

The collection is comprised of a scrapbook with primarily black-and-white photographs featuring women and men in Navy uniforms, aircraft in flight, and military personnel and civilians in both casual and posed settings, circa 1930s-1950s. Most of the images are military-related with some depicting members of the Pomer family. The scrapbook also has a certificate of membership for the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences and three Pomer family children's report cards.

Dates: circa 1930s-1950s

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Wayne Wiesner Helicopter Collection

Collection

Identifier: 2010-06-24

Contents of the Collection The Wayne Wiesner Helicopter Collection primarily contains materials related to Wiesner's 1960-1990 engineering career with the Boeing Company. It contains textual and visual materials mostly focused on Wiesner's work with helicopters, although a small amount of photographs are representative of his time in Boeing Vertol's wind turbine program. Due to its small size, it has been arranged alphabetically by subject. The collection includes documents related to Wiesner's membership...

Dates: 1940-1991; Majority of material found within 1980-1985

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Series I. Model Rocketry, 1957-2008

Series

Scope and Contents There are six subseries that make up the Model Rocketry Series: Subseries A. National Association of Rocketry, 1957-2007; Subseries B. International Model Rocketry, 1959-1981; Subseries C. Safety Codes and Regulations, 1958-1997; Subseries D. Corporations, 1957-2008; Subseries E. Designs, 1957-1989; Subseries F. Assorted Materials, 1957-1990.This series represents the bulk of Stine’s professional work in model rocketry and the development of the hobby beginning with the foundation...

Dates: 1957-2008

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives / G. Harry Stine Space History and Model Rocketry Collection

Series II. Writings, 1948-1995

Series

Scope and Contents The Writing series is made up of the professional written works by Stine associated with sports model rocketry, non-fiction aeronautical writings, and science-fiction works under the pennames Lee Correy, George H. Shearer, and Gregory Hamilton Stone. When Stine used a penname for the work, it is noted alongside the folder title. The types of material that make up this series are galley proofs, typed manuscripts, photographs, illustrations, tear-sheets of magazine articles, notebooks, and...

Dates: 1948-1995

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives / G. Harry Stine Space History and Model Rocketry Collection

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