Hagedorn, Dan
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Dan Hagedorn served as Senior Curator and Director of Collections at The Museum of Flight from 2008 until his retirement in 2016. Prior to his tenure at TMOF, he was Adjunct Curator and Research Team Leader at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Hagedorn is a graduate of Villa Maria College, the State University of New York, and the Command and General Staff College, and served in the U.S. Armed Forces for almost three decades. He has written numerous books and articles about aviation history in general and Latin American aviation in particular. For his work in documenting Latin American aviation history, he received the Orden Merito Santos-Dumont from the Brazilian Government in 2006. Since his retirement in 2016, Hagedorn has served as a Curator Emeritus at the Museum.
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Taylor, Dick -- oral history interview, 2014 February 13
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Interview Summary
Aeronautical engineer Richard W. “Dick” Taylor is interviewed about his 50-year career at the Boeing Company, which spanned the 1940s to the early 1990s. He discusses his experiences as a test pilot and design engineer for the company and describes notable projects from his career, including his work on the B-47 Stratojet, Boeing Model 377 Stratocruiser, and Model 737 and his development of ETOPS (Extended Range Twin Engine Operations). He also touches on his service as a U.S Army liaison pilot...