An obituary for James A. Winker, who died on Apr 3 at the age of 88, is presented. Winker graduated from the University of Minnesota with degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and Business Administration. While in school, he worked part time at General Mills on their scientific balloon programs. In 1952, he joined General Mills and helped design scientific balloons and took part in a project that distributed pro-democracy leaflets behind the Iron Curtain. Called into the US Air Force in 1954, he was assigned to the balloon research group at the US Air Force Cambridge Research Center in Bedford MA and attained the rank of Major. From 1956 until he retired as company vice president in 1991, he worked for Raven Industries, Inc in Sioux Falls SD.
Obituaries: AIAA Associate Fellow Winker Died in April
Aerospace America ; 55 , 6
2017
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
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