An obituary for Robert Benton Brown II, who died on Jan 14, 2015, is presented. From an early age, Brown was fascinated by flight, participating in the Free Flight Model Airplane Contest as a teenager--his first project in a lifetime of design. Brown was inspired by his professors at the University of Washington (UW) where his favorite class was three-dimensional geometry. Ties were close between the UW aeronautical engineering department and Boeing, and he worked college summers as a mechanic at the Renton plant. His studies were interrupted during World War II, when he served as an Army Air Force lieutenant in India, overseeing maintenance for a 100-plane fleet. He returned to Boeing and the UW after the war, graduating with a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering in 1947 and an M.S. in 1950.
AIAA Fellow Brown Died in January
Aerospace America ; 53 , 4
2015
Article (Journal)
English
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