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society, GISS is part of the Earth Science Director at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and a component of<br />
Columbia University’s Earth Institute, a university-wide initiative whose mission is to understand our planet so as to enhance<br />
its sustainability. In 1994 Jim Hansen, several of his GISS and Columbia University colleagues and Fitzgerald Bramwell, the<br />
former Director of the New York City Alliance for Minority Participation at City University of New York, launched the ICP.<br />
ICP contributes to NASA education and minority outreach goals by directly involving underrepresented college, high school<br />
and junior high school students and their educators in research. ICP takes advantage of the interest of many civil servants and<br />
Columbia University research scientists at GISS to involve students and educators on multi-level research teams working on<br />
problems at the core of NASA’s Earth Science Enterprise - advancing our understanding of Earth s climate, climate variability,<br />
and climate impacts.<br />
Author<br />
Students; Universities; Minorities; Education; Climate Change<br />
20030025776 NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA<br />
The Contributions of Vincent Justus Burnelli<br />
Wood, Richard M.; [2003]; 12 pp.; In English; 41st AIAAAerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 6-9 Jan. 2003, Reno, NV,<br />
USA; Original contains black and white illustrations<br />
Report No.(s): AIAA Paper 2003-0292; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; A03, Hardcopy<br />
A review of the contributions and the professional life of Vincent Justus Burnelli are presented. Burnelli was an inventor,<br />
aircraft designer and a leading pioneer in early aviation within the USA. A discussion of many of his leading accomplishments<br />
are discussed, including his design of the first commercial twin engine transport, invent of the lifting-body/lifting-fuselage<br />
aircraft. He was one of the first to put into practice retractable landing gear, variable area and camber wings, winglets, and<br />
full span flaps for twin engine aircraft. A review of a number of his sixty patents is presented and discussed as they relate to<br />
his eleven aircraft designs that were produced. A brief discussion of his accomplishments and contributions, as they relate to<br />
present aircraft design trends is also presented.<br />
Author<br />
Biography; Aircraft Design; Inventions<br />
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