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John L. Bailey Boeing B-52 Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2023-10-02
Content Description The John L. Bailey Boeing B-52 Collection is a small collection of records and technical drawings from John Bailey's work designing instrument panels on the B-52 at the Boeing Company from the late 1940s to early 1950s. The collection consists of two of Bailey’s notebooks during his employment with the company. The first notebook, "B-52 Instrument Panels Change Record” includes technical drawings and notes. The second notebook titled, “B-52 Instrument Panels” includes technical drawings and...
Dates: 1949-1954

Abraham L. Brearcliffe Jr. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1984-08-30-B
Abstract

Abraham Lincoln Brearcliffe, Jr. (1899-1984) was born in Washington state and worked for Boeing from 1930-1945. The collection features photographs, clippings and newsletters, foreman's materials, labor union membership books, and assorted ephemera from Brearcliffe's time at Boeing, most of which are almost exclusively from the war years (1941-1945).

Dates: 1921-1945, 1967-1970 ; Majority of material found within 1941-1945

William Hough "Bill" Cook Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2017-10-26
Abstract

The William Hough “Bill” Cook, Jr. Papers are comprised of documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia pertaining to the life and work of Bill Cook, Jr. A significant portion of this collection is made up of correspondence, both personal and professional. Major topics include the Boeing high speed wind tunnel, the B-29, B-47, and B-17 bombers, the development of the YC-14 short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft, and research on supersonic transport.

Dates: 1925-2012; Majority of material found within 1938-1974

David L. Davidson Jr. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-07-11
Abstract David L. Davidson was an electrical engineer at The Boeing Company and worked on the Saturn V Rocket and the Lunar Rover projects. He served in the U.S. Marines from 1942-1946 and in the U.S. Army Reserves Engineer Corps from 1957-1962. This collection, which dates from 1941 to his retirement from Boeing in 1988, consists of textual materials, photographs, and one digital audio recording. It includes administrative records, notes, Boeing managerial training materials, photographs that depict...
Dates: circa 1937-1988

Ralph B. McCormick Boeing Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2024-02-08-A
Content Description Ralph B. McCormick Boeing Collection is a small collection of materials relating to McCormick’s career as an aeronautical engineer with the Boeing Company from 1951 to 1989. The collection dates from 1944 to 1989 and is comprised of personnel records, reports, program schedules, technical diagrams, hand-drawn preliminary designs with accompanying hand-written notes, clippings, as well as lantern slides of a professional presentation. In addition to the materials noted above, there are...
Dates: 1944-1989

SHANNON Engineering, Inc. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1995-09-07
Content Description The SHANNON Engineering, Inc. Collection is comprised predominantly of textual documents and a small number of visual materials that describe the work of Jack Shannon, the founder of the company, and his business’s engineering designs and aircraft manuals from 1970-1992. The textual materials are made up of company reports, hand-drawn technical designs, aircraft manual drafts, charts, certificates, correspondence, hand-written notes, clippings, and articles. The visual materials consist of...
Dates: 1970-1992

Harold W. Zipp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1992-11-12
Abstract

Harold W. Zipp was an engineer at the Boeing Company for forty years. The collection documents his career, particularly his tenure in Wichita, Kansas, with diaries, photographs and other documents.

Dates: circa 1930-1971; Majority of material found within 1930-1951

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Boeing Model 747 Family 3
certificates 3
notes (documents) 3
Airplanes -- Flight testing 2
Boeing B-17 Model 299 Flying Fortress ("XB-17") 2
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Boeing Model 707 Family 2
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World War, 1939-1945 2
aerial photographs 2
booklets 2
brochures 2
diplomas 2
employees' manuals 2
logs (records) 2
newsletters 2
notebooks 2
Aerodynamics 1
Aeronautical engineers 1
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Aerospace industries 1
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Airlift, Military 1
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Airplanes -- Air refueling 1
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Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter Family (Model 367) 1
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Boeing Model 367-80 (707 Prototype) 1
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Boeing Model 727 Family 1
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Bucholz Army Airfield (Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands) 1
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Douglas DC-1 1
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Douglas DC-3 Family 1
Elmer A. Sperry Award 1
Engineering 1
England Air Force Base (La.) 1
Forrest Sherman Field (Fla.) 1
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Grumman G-44 (Widgeon) Family 1
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Learjet 24 Family 1
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Allen, Edmund Turney, 1896-1943 2
Beall, Wellwood Edmeston, 1906-1978 2
Wells, Edward C., 1910-1986 2
Wilson, T. A. (Thornton Arnold), 1921-1999 2
Allen, William M., 1900-1985 1
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Antietam (Aircraft carrier) 1
Argentina. Armada 1
Boeing Company. Wichita Division 1
Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 1
Brackin, Harl V. 1
Brazil. Fôrça Aérea Brasileira 1
Brearcliffe, Abraham Lincoln, 1899-1984 1
Cook, William Hough, Jr., 1913-2012 1
Cuba. Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias 1
Davidson, David L., Jr., 1922-2008 1
Garrett AiResearch 1
Gates Learjet Corporation (1969-1987) 1
Goodmanson, Lloyd 1
Great Britain. Civil Aviation Authority. Safety and Airspace Regulation Group 1
Hamilton Field (Calif.) 1
Hennings, Tandy Cook 1
International Association of Machinists 1
Johnson, Philip G. (Philip Gustav), 1894-1944 1
Johnston Atoll Airport (United States Minor Outlying Islands) 1
Knoll 1
Levy, David "Deed" 1
Martin, George C., 1910-2003 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
McCormick, Ralph B. , 1927-2013 1
Minshall, Robert J. 1
Pan American World Airways, Inc 1
Project Apollo (U.S.) 1
Reed, A.C. 1
Russell, John H. 1
SHANNON Engineering, Inc. 1
Schaefer, Julius E. 1
Schairer, George Swift, 1913-2004 1
Shannon, Jack 1
Sheet Metal Workers' International Association 1
Short, Mac 1
Showalter, N.D. (Noah David), 1925-2012 1
Stearman (1927) 1
Stearman, Lloyd, 1898-1975 1
Stoner, George H., -1971 1
Tibbets, Paul W. (Paul Warfield), 1915-2007 1
Townsend, Guy M., 1920-2011 1
United States. Air Force 1
United States. Air Force. Far East Air Forces 1
United States. Army Air Forces 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Service Command 1
United States. Army. Air Corps 1
United States. Department of Defense 1
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1
United States. Navy 1
West, Harry 1
Whitehead, Ennis Clement, 1895-1964 1
Zimmerman, John 1
Zipp, Harold W., 1906-1991 1
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