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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Windecker Projects Collection
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0176
- Creators:
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Windecker, Leo J., 1921-
- Dates:
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1917-1966
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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2.18 Cubic feet(2 records center boxes)
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
This collection contains research data from Windecker's experiments with composites. The material includes market evaluations of the light aircraft manufacturing industry, and reports from the 1940s concerning the use of wood in aircraft production. The collection also includes correspondence between Dr. Windecker and Dow as well as project records.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
In the years following World War II, Dr Leo J Windecker (1921- ) worked for the Dow Chemical Co as a dentist in one of their company clinics. Windecker became interested in aircraft structures and began to research and design plastic aircraft forms. Eventually Dow saw promise in his designs and sent Dr. Windecker to Hondo, Texas in the mid-1960s where he was placed in charge of an experimental research laboratory, Windecker Research Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dow Chemicals. There he experimented with composite materials and developed aircraft structures built completely from them.
Administration
Immediate Source of Acquisition
No donor information, Gift, unknown, XXXX-0176, unknown
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Use
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
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General
General
NASMrev
Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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Composite materials | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Aeronautics | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Aeronautics, Commercial | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Aeronautics -- Research | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Publications | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Photographs | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Correspondence | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Reports | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Windecker, Leo J., 1921- | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Dow Chemical Company | Corporate Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Dow Chemical Company. Windecker Research Inc. | Corporate Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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