Chantilly and Erie and avenues left open
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 8:45 pm
Linda and Jo were heartbroken to be leaving Chantilly. They had been house shopping in the belief that they would be settling down at last.
But, Townsend was again, almost suddenly diverted to Meadville. This is where I too run out of steam. I won't even try to connect what was happening, except I assumed something critical was happening in the GE facility Erie, PA, or perhaps on some satellite subcontract.
Townsend impressed upon Linda, his strong dislike for co-worker Dr. Wang (not-word-processor Wang)
Townsend generally preferred to live close to his work, but was his work in Meadeville, itself? Or did he live there because it was equidistant between GE Engines R&D labs and the Cleveland lab that became NASA LEWIS?
https://www.nasa.gov/offices/history/ce ... rch_center
Seems to me that I uncovered an Alternate-Wang working with the NASA lab around that time.
I went to check my old TTB blog, surprised to find it was still there and this turned up: url]https://jansrose.blogspot.com/2013/03/b ... -6-10.html[/url]. It is part of a letter from TTB to Ed Hull, his future model maker, found in the archives of Gray Barker in the Charleston, W. VA, library. These records were located by a young, recently separated, Reconn Marine from West Virginia. "Plad" was another of the merry mystery chasers I met f2f in 2012.
(Noting for the record. Townsend mentions the unique qualities aluminum in this letter. Not saying that it is something that is connected or even relevant, but his consulting address he gave after his separation from the regular Navy in 1931, was in the same office building as the association of the Aluminum Manufacturers of America.)
But, Townsend was again, almost suddenly diverted to Meadville. This is where I too run out of steam. I won't even try to connect what was happening, except I assumed something critical was happening in the GE facility Erie, PA, or perhaps on some satellite subcontract.
Townsend impressed upon Linda, his strong dislike for co-worker Dr. Wang (not-word-processor Wang)
Townsend generally preferred to live close to his work, but was his work in Meadeville, itself? Or did he live there because it was equidistant between GE Engines R&D labs and the Cleveland lab that became NASA LEWIS?
The Center officially entered the space age in 1958 as NACA was reorganized into NASA by the National Aeronautics and Space Act. Under its new name, the NASA Lewis Research Center (LeRC) undertook additional responsibility in the fields of research and development in space power technology, launch vehicles and chemical and electric propulsion for space. The physical plant expanded again as the LeRC Cleveland site acquired an additional 139 acres and the Developmental Engineering Building, the Electric Propulsion Laboratory, the Energy Conversion Laboratory, and the Zero Gravity Research Facility were built.
https://www.nasa.gov/offices/history/ce ... rch_center
Seems to me that I uncovered an Alternate-Wang working with the NASA lab around that time.
I went to check my old TTB blog, surprised to find it was still there and this turned up: url]https://jansrose.blogspot.com/2013/03/b ... -6-10.html[/url]. It is part of a letter from TTB to Ed Hull, his future model maker, found in the archives of Gray Barker in the Charleston, W. VA, library. These records were located by a young, recently separated, Reconn Marine from West Virginia. "Plad" was another of the merry mystery chasers I met f2f in 2012.
(Noting for the record. Townsend mentions the unique qualities aluminum in this letter. Not saying that it is something that is connected or even relevant, but his consulting address he gave after his separation from the regular Navy in 1931, was in the same office building as the association of the Aluminum Manufacturers of America.)