An obituary for Laurence D. Leavitt, who died on Jun 21, 2017, is presented. In 1975, Leavitt was employed as a research engineer at NASA Langley Research Center. While working as a researcher in the Propulsion Aerodynamics Branch, he was involved in research aimed at the improvement of aircraft performance, primarily military high performance aircraft. He worked on many technologies, but was known for his work in multi-axis thrust vectoring exhaust nozzles, thrust reversers, and propulsion simulation test techniques. Leavitt was involved in the development of an efficient propulsion airframe integration on the B-2 Stealth Bomber. In 1987 he became the group leader for the Advanced Nozzle Concepts Group within the Branch. In 1990, he became the assistant head of the Propulsion Aerodynamics Branch and was responsible for the research program and operations of the Langley 16 Foot Transonic Wind Tunnel.
Obituaries: AIAA Fellow Leavitt Died in June
Aerospace America ; 55 , 8
2017
Article (Journal)
English
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