Museum of Flight Archives
George Schairer Aeronautical Engineering Collection
2005-1-10.2006-11-20
Table of Contents
- Summary Information
- Schairer Obituary
- Container 1
- Container 2
- Container 3
- Container 4
- Container 5
- Container 6
- Container 7
- Container 8
- Container 9
- Container 10
- Container 11
- Container 12
- Container 13
- Container 14
- Container 15
- Container 16
- Container 17
- Container 18
- Container 19
- Container 20
- Container 21
- Container 22
- Container 23
- Container 24
- Container 25
- Container 26
- Container 27
- Container 28
- Container 29
- Library Books
- George Schairer Engineering Design Letter
- George Schairer Engineering Collection
- Administrative Information
- Controlled Access Headings
Summary Information
- Repository
- Museum of Flight Archives
- Creator - Engineer
- Schairer, George Swift
- Title
- George Schairer Aeronautical Engineering Collection
- ID
- 2005-1-10.2006-11-20
- Date
- 20th Century
- Extent
- 20.0 Linear feet consisting of four, four drawer file cabinets and 26 document boxes containing engineering documentation, published materials and correspondence from George Swift Schairer. One File Folder containing the 7 page letter documenting discovery of German WWII swept wing engineering design
- Language
- English
Schairer Obituary
Seattle Times November 2, 2004.
George Schairer wrote a letter in May 1945 to colleagues at Boeing that historians look back on now as a landmark of the jet age.
When he wrote his letter, in longhand, Mr. Schairer was part of a team of scientists scouting for technology in Germany as the Nazi regime was about to surrender at the end of World War II. He found wind-tunnel research that suggested hints of a breakthrough concept — that planes could be designed with 18 degree "swept-back" wings instead of straight ones, and matched with a jet engine rather than traditional propellers.
The research was quickly put to test at the Boeing wind tunnel — a facility the company had built years earlier, ahead of other companies, thanks in part to Mr. Schairer's advocacy. Other American companies were provided the same information, but only Boeing put it to work on a new jet-bomber program.
Mr. Schairer's discovery eventually took form in the B-47, and then the B-52, the military bomber that uses the "swept-wing" technology that's the foundation of today's jets.
Engineers from the period who worked for Mr. Schairer say his painstaking effort to perfect the aerodynamics of the planes was as important as any other single contribution in leading Boeing into the jet age.
Mr. Schairer died Thursday (Oct. 28) of complications from Alzheimer's at Evergreen Hospice Center in Kirkland. He was 91.
"He was a real technical powerhouse," said Joe Sutter, an aerodynamicist under Mr. Schairer who went on to be chief designer of the 747. "George's name should be on the wall at the Smithsonian. He's really an aviation pioneer."
Mr. Schairer was not one of aviation's household names, but his efforts have been recognized. He won numerous awards, including aviation's equivalent of the Nobel Prize, the Daniel Guggenheim Medal.
He was one of only five Boeing men whose pictures hung in the office of Boeing's legendary former chief T. Wilson, according to "Legend & Legacy," a Boeing history by Robert Serling.
Mr. Schairer came to Boeing in 1939 with a reputation as a top young aerodynamicist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He rose to vice president of research and development at Boeing, and retired in 1978. A favorite hobby, sailing, tested his mind.
Those who worked beside Mr. Schairer described him as a brilliant engineer, a demanding boss, a doer, and a sometimes mystifying communicator.
"In meetings, we'd all listen to George, and we'd have to go back to my office afterwards to figure out what the heck he said," said H.W. "Bob" Withington, an aerodynamicist who worked for him. "His communication skills weren't as good as his aeronautical thinking, but we could usually figure it out."
Mr. Schairer's son, Gus, said his father challenged both his workers and his children to think about every possible side of a problem before reaching a conclusion.
Gus Schairer said his father was always upset by plane crashes, wondering whether there was anything he could have done as an engineer to prevent them, even when they were caused by factors like pilot error.
"I spent my whole life being in awe of him," Gus Schairer said. "He wanted to produce the best and safest airplane in the world."
Container 1
Binder: Miscellaneous German interrogations 1945
Miscellaneous lists of different committees and groups along with member directories
Civil Aeronautics manual 1955
Civil Aeronautics Part 4b airplane airworthiness transport categories 1953
Civil Aeronautics Part 4b airplane airworthiness transport categories 1955 and 1956
Civil Aeronautics Regulations for transport aircraft 1943
Airworthiness Standards - Transport Categories 1954
Airworthiness standards 1983
Civil Air Regulations, Admendment 04-0, Effective November 9, 1945
Miscellaneous Airworthiness information and binder as well
Miscellaneous correspondence to GSS
Packet on New Wind Tunnel Complex 1991
Packet program review for the advisory team 1991
Binder: Report on visit to England in summer of 1945
Binder: wind tunnel investigation of model autogiro rotors 1935
Binder: Notes on Airplane design parameters 1945
Photo: presentation Transportation 1980
Air Progress Summer Edition 1961
Binder: 707 Jet Transport 1953
Binder: collection of aerodynamic information relating to supersonic flight 1945
Binder: Aeronautical design symposium 1989
Miscellaneous magazine articles
Book: Into the Unknown 1960
Progress Review Boeing Research Labs. 1962
Boeing Research Labs 1968
Binder: Flight test outline for positioning type cross-wind landing gear 1952
Binder: Flight characteristics at high mach number 1950
Binder: Low speed stalling characteristics 1952, Model XB-47
Binder: Elimination of B-47 pitch-up by means of vortex generators 1951
Boeing Magazine May 1951
Boeing Scientific Research Labs 1967
AMST prototype technical proposal 1972
Folder: Titles old records, full of blue prints data graphs and charts
Binder: Model XB-47 mock up conference 1946
Folder: Invitations, programs and itineraries for various events
Folder: Newspaper clippings, memos, and hand written notes
Folder: "Vertol". Full of charts and data with transparencies, Man vs. Machine, Aerospace Engineering Sept 1962
Several old panoramic style photos of old planes and a zeppelin
Photo of the famous Schairer model out of balsa
Container 2
Folder: Some Aircraft Design notes Feb 1985
Folder: Effects of various engine installations on the capabilities of Boeing Model 707 airplanes 1955"
Folder: Model 707 Design Notes 1955-65
Folder: Boeing and Competitor aircraft a performance and economic comparison
Folder: Summary of High-speed wind tunnel tests
Folder: Compilation of wind tunnel data Oct 1938
Folder: Large collection of graphs data on air foils
Notebook: Summary of Wind Tunnel Tests
Folder: General Propeller chart suitable for a wide range of propellers 1943
Staff list of England and France manufacturers and itineraries of trip to Europe 1960
Summary Flow Nacelle Exit Program FR-115
Notebook: Turbojet and turbofan performance in an isolated pod installation 1973
Paper by F.E. Culick "A brief history of the science and invention of Flying Machines" 1981
Notebook: Preliminary Design Data Boeing Model 464-49-0 1948
Medium bomber proposals: Project MX 948 Jan 1948
Notebook: History Boeing Model B-52 1952
Notebook: Turbojet and turbofan performance in an isolated pod installation 1973
Notebook: General propeller chart suitable for a wide range of propellers 1943
Folder: Presentation of propeller data in the form of thrust versus effective drag
Notebook: General propeller chart suitable for a wide range of propellers 1943
Notebook: Folder Presentation of propeller data in form of thrust versus effective drag
Folder: Magazine clipping from the 1930s
Folder: Copies of figures in GSS's papers 1975 – Present
Folder: Copies of figures in GSS's papers 1937-1962
Folder: General propeller charts preliminary copy
Folder: copies of figures in GSS's papers 1963-1974
Miscellaneous magazine articles
Packet: Wing data with figure index
Paper: Theory of the Spratt Airplane 1937
Folder: Possibilities for lift increase by flaps with boundary layer control 1946
Binder: Notes on airplane design parameters 1945
Binder: Notes on airplane design parameters 1945
Container 3
Binder: "Analysis of direct-lift results of integrated jet wing tests in United Aircraft Research Laboratories' Pilot Tunnel 1963
Green binder report on wave induced capsizing
Folder of magazine advertisements
Slides of waves
Paper: "Observations and speculations on mechanics of wave generation by wind" by Erik Mollo-Christensen 1970
Report from Vassdrags - Og Havnelaboratoriet "Kinematics and Dynamics of Breaking Waves"
Bound collection of articles about waves
Boeing Annual report 1982, 1983, 1992-1994
Two copies of "Listen to Leaders in Engineering" 1965
Pamphlets "Meeting manpower needs in science and technology" Report 1 graduate training in engineering, math, and physical sciences 1962 (two copies)
Paper: Some opportunities for progress in aircraft performance 1964 (many copies)
Pamphlet: "Looking Ahead in V/STOL 1963
Paper for 5th Annual career conference for High schools of greater NY area "Man and his Fluid environment" 1968
Paper: Directional Stability and Vertical Surface Stalling" (many incomplete and complete copies 1941)
Paper: Role of Competition in Aeronautics 1968 (many copies)
Paper: Aircraft Design- Present and Future 1964 (many copies)
Paper: Design for Reliability 1957 by GSS and Herbet S. Clayman
Paper: “A designer looks at V/STOL” 1959 by GSS (many copies)
Paper: Transport aircraft operating economics 1974
Paper: Modern Aerodynamic design methods 1940
Report on A mathematical analysis of flight 1934 by GSS college assignment
Paper: Origin of New Products GSS 1961
Draft of Aeronautical and Astronautically engineering 1963
Draft “How the airplane designer can help the people in the cockpit” 1967
Paper: Technology and State-of-the-Art for Manned Aircraft in Future Warfare
Paper: Man and Machine in Space 1961
Paper: Economic considerations of a jet transport airplane 1953
Paper: Looking Ahead in V/STOL 1961
Paper: High Speed problems of large airplanes 1956
Paper: Scientific Education for America's future 1958
Paper: Perspective of SST aircraft noise and problem 1968
Paper: Why pod mounted engines make sense 1947
Paper: Evolution of Modern air transport wings 1980
Paper: Performance characteristics of Jet Nozzles
Catalog of all papers and speeches by GSS 1990
Bibliography of Aerodynamics of stalling and separation of swept aircraft wings 1982
Bibliography of Aerodynamics of stalling and separation of swept aircraft wings 1984
Paper: Looking Ahead in Transportation
Catalogue of Data in Files of GSS
General Management - Presentation File of GSS
Papers and Speechs by GSS
Paper: "A Projection of Airlines Aviation to Year 2000 by GSS, March 10, 1976
Paper: An airplane performance slide rule 1937
Paper: Background of Boeing 707 Jet Transport
Paper: Some on notes on the value of Flexibility 1972
Paper: Technology and The Bright New World Ahead 1973
Paper: Aircraft Propellers a Reminiscense by GSS, September 21, 1987
Paper: Commercial Air transportation- What's the Prognosis? 1971
Speech to Moses Lake Supervisors Club 1959
Paper: Airport Planning Airline Customer Viewpoint 1959
Paper: Davis Wing 1976
Paper: Flying Breakthroughs 1963
Paper: On Wave-induced capsizing 1984
Paper: Next revolution in electronics 1962
Paper: Designing for noise reduction 1975
Paper: Future of Aeronautical transportation as seen in the crystal ball of an airplane designer 1975
Transparencies
Speech about the XB-47 and presentation
Packet of images that may go with speech
Paper: Aerodynamics efficiencies of large landplanes
Container 4
George Schairer Biographical info(Who's Who and Biographical Sketch)
Boeing 1992 Annual report
Bound 'Selected Subsonic Wing Design Methods- A Survey and Evaluation', 1976-77
Handout: Aerodynamic Golf tournament
Small collection of mathematical charts & tables (R.A.F. 34, back-half roughened FF carborundum Page 45-56)
Photos of Von Karman's birthplace
Small collection of pamphlets, Aeronautical Research Committee (i.e. Wind Tunnel and Dropping Tests of Autogyro models) 1926-28
Presentation of propeller data in the form of thrust versus effective drag, Oct. 8 1965
Notebook: "Preliminary Jet Transport Performance Study" 2-3-1950
Jet Transport Study, May 9, 1947
Boeing booklet on Jet Transport, Aug 19, 1949
General Electric Review article, "The Basic Gas Turbine Plant and Some of its Variants" by J. Kenneth Salisbury, May 1944
Pamphlet: The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, "Future of Air-Breathing Engines in Aviation" 1959
Presentation at Durand Centennial Conference, Stanford, August 8, 1959, "The Advent of Astronautics" by W.B. Klemperer
Presentation at the SAE National Aeronautic Meeting, LA 1946, "Factors Producing Erratic Engine Operation" by A. Lewis MacLain, October 3-5, 1946
Presentation at the National Forum of the American Helicopter Society, D.C. May 1973 "Tail Rotor Performance in Presence of Main Rotor, Ground, and Winds" (Wayne Weisner and Gary Kohler, American Helicopter Society)
Pamphlet: "In-Flight Refueling and the World of the Eighties" 1978
Correspondence: September 17, 1993, GSS and Henry T. Nagamatsu (re: isentropic recompression schemes and tests)
Correspondence: 1993, GSS and Prof. T.A. Weisshaar, Purdue University
Pamphlet: "Importance of Research Directed Toward the Development of Ultimate Performance for Inertial System Components" January 1975, C.S. Draper, Draker Lab
Pamphlet: "Aircraft and Spacecraft Navigation" by Charles Stark Draper October 25, 1978 Collection of graphs
Design Sketch Wind Tunnel Model FR-62, 1944
Various sketches of airplanes and three angle views
Various sketches of the B-52
American Scientist magazine, March 1971
"Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions for Army Models B-29 and B-29A Airplanes" May 1945
Yellow envelope with engine transparencies
Pamphlet: "Second Report on Misc. Problems of Fuel Utilization in Aircraft" March 1945
Pamphlet: "Petroleum: Its use for Motive Power" Jan 1945
Various graphs and graph transparencies
Letter: subject "JT9D-3 Engine parameters" with attached parameter plot and transparency
JT9D3 Grids
Estimated performance of the Boeing model 473-60C Jet Transport, October 9, 1950
Folder with charts concerning fuel consumption, 1949
Notebook: "Factors affecting performance of simple-cycles turbo-jet and turbo-prop engines, 10-11-48
Photocopied article from Boeing News April 20, 1995 "A Look back at swept-wings"
Article: "The International Sailing Canoe: A Technical Review" Oct 1994
Article on Arthur Young, Vertiflite March/April 1995
Pamphlet: "The Boeing 367-80" Sept 1994 (2 copies)
Summary comparison of financial data major aircraft companies fiscal year 1954
Boeing News, Oct 23, 1947
Application and contract from Boeing to City of Seattle Dept. of Lighting, for use of electricity at plant #2, 1942
Magazine with no cover, Aviation Week & Space Tech. August 12, 1991 "The Pioneering of American Aviation Journalism - An Idea is Born 1916-1919"
Letter from Boeing to GSS regarding 40th Anniv. Of B-52
Trustees of Cornish phone tree from 1983/84
Various magazine clippings
Pamphlet: "Care of the Back" (the finer points of lifting heavy objects)
Photo from 1992, Ellis Levin and GSS?
"Absolut Brooklyn" ad
Article from Flight International, July 1975 "Disc Failures; a cause for concern"
Letter from V. Moore to GSS, "Variable Capacity Compressor Testing" and attached graphs
News article on Clayton Scott, "Seattle Flyboy…." 1992
News article, NY Times 1992, "Boeing Names President…"
Various news articles
Articles: Aeronautics and Astronautics, "On Course to Modern Guidance" by Charles Stark Draper, Feb 1980
Paper delivered before a section of the Nat. Industrial Conference Board, September 21, 1944 by Otto Schairer, "The Influence of Research on Product Development"
Article from 'Airliner' 1992 on B-52 Stratofortress
Paper: "Design of the Fan for the Transonic Modification of the Boeing High Speed Wind Tunnel"
Index of papers written by GSS
Article from Science Magazine May 1992 "The Advancement of Science" by Leon Lederman
Flyer and invitation to Symposium on Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics, 1993
Correspondence between Col. H.E. Warden and GSS, January 1993
Letter from the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Alain Enthoven, to GSS, May 18, 1963
Various correspondences
Articles on the Boeing Wind Tunnel
Paper from the International Conference on The Survival of Humankind: The Philippine Experiment, "Philippine Rice Production" 1973-76
AIAA article, "Beginning of an era- the big jets" - refers to GSS
Who's Who in American Aeronautics pages - third edition, 1928
Large "General Propeller Chart" 1943
Letter from GSS to W.M. Allen, March 1964, "Incentive Compensation and New Business Incentives"
Correspondence between GSS and Chauncey Starr, report on "Operating Experience in Technology Assessment Experiments” 1969
Article from NY Times, Jan 22, 1991, on B-52 bomber "Giant B-52 Grows Old Virulently"
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Presidential Address 1970-71
Copy of news article, "A valiant scientist on Boeing Co.'s team", refers to Eddie Allen
News article on death of Lawrence R. Hafstad
Stapled papers regarding an endowment for the sciences at Swarthmore College, October 1993
Office poem April 1953 by A. Non. Emos, signed by Bob Schreiber
Newspaper clippings on 50th anniversary of Boeing Wind tunnel
Newspaper clippings about Apollo 11 Astronauts 1994
Photocopy of a check to Guggenheim 1994 for 80.00
Article of oblique flying wing aviation week and space tech, October 10 1994
13th annual Pathfinder awards
Socioengineering and Augustine's Second law Thereof October 1993
Invitation and article on participation in scientific advisory board 50th anniversary
Technical article on battery tech. Electronics 1975
Science in the post cold war era article 1993
Lots of random newspaper clipping and magazine articles
Boeing V/STOL Wind tunnel pamphlet book circa 1960s
Large Folder full of charts and formulas on Helicopters
Notebook: Revised performance of the B 478 Airplane 1950
Notebook: aerodynamic development of the B-47 1952
Notebook: Investigation of B-47 bomb bay buffeting 1952
Notebook: XB-47 Elastic roll model data .01 scale 1948
Notebook: Flight information B 17G 1944
Engineering and Science periodical 1971
Notebook: Estimated performance of the XB -47 1946
Wind tunnel test No. 85
Notebook: flutter test of the XB-47 1952
Notebook: estimated performance of the B-478 1949
Notebook: Performance estimates based on Drag reduction from phase I flight tests 1948
Notebook: Huge- longitudal stabilities at high airspeeds 1952
Container 5
50th anniversary B-29 Superfortress hat
Roll of toilet paper with a flight chart on every section
Folder, "Airliner Sciences"- contains several photos of airflow on the Concorde, helicopter vortices, etc.
Black binder: Civil Air board regulations, copies from the Journal of Aeronautical Sciences
Miscellaneous science articles and notes, some in French
Large envelope with "Originals of 707 paper 8/1/84" (find it at the bottom of the file drawer)
Miscellaneous newspaper and magazine clippings
Brown bound folder - "Report 101 - Wind Tunner on a 1/18 scale model of the Boeing 307 Airplane" 4-4-1940
Bound F&R #64 Mock-Up Photos
Letter to GSS from F.R. Shanley on fatigue
Report: "Estimated Performance of the Boeing Jet Transport Model 767-200 with CF6-80A Engines, 1978
Booklet on the B-52 with stamp changing classification from Confidential to unclassified
Seattle-Renton Contact newspaper, Boeing's 50th anniversary, 1966
The Seattle Times Special Boeing Section, 1966
Report: "Visualisation Hydrodynamique D'Ecoulements Instationnaires", Henri Werle, 1971-72
Packet of figures with index
Report: "Cuve Hydraulique Pour La Visualisation Des Ecoulements Au Point Fixe", Henri Werle and Marc Gallon, 1969
Clipping from Aviation Weekly, F-16XL
Various articles and clippings- air visualizations, wing dynamics, and fluid mechanics
"Our Boys: The P.D. Team- If it flies, we designed it" booklet
Packet in French, "Courants et Couleurs"- Flows and Colors
Report: "Flow Visualization Techniques for the Study of High Incidence Aerodynamics", Henri Werle 1982
Unknown B&W photos- tanks, rockets, aerial view, planes
Piece of aluminum, "Boeing Vertol Model 234-SP (Designed to GSS Specs), autographed by many
Booklet: Pedigree of Champions: Boeing since 1916, 1963
"You & Boeing", The Engineering Division of Boeing, 1942
Brown folder: Employment apps and appointments, government, NASA, etc.
Brown folder: letters of scientific nature to several people
Brown folder: "Boeing Supersonic Wind Tunnel" 1951 stapled papers
Brown folder: list of GSS's membership in organizations, up to late 1970's
Brown folder: "Flight Sciences Laboratory 1969-1974" Arnold Goldburg
Bound, large collection of letters, 1971
B-17F Flight Computer/Slide rule
Folder of miscellaneous papers, reports, memorabilia titled "MEMORY"
Spiral notebook with some notes and sketches
Book: 'Aerodynamics Reference Book, Boeing' date unknown, possibly 1950’s
Container 6
Journal of Aeronautical Sciences 1935-51
Container 7
Brown vertical file folder: sections of autobiography? Most dated early 1990's
Vertical file folder, includes: Miscellaneous articles, "A Wind Tunnel Investigation of Model Autogiro Rotors" by GSS, B.S. Swarthmore College, 1934, Annual report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics 1958, Booklet, "The B-47 Stratojet in retrospect", Letter and article from Scientific Advisory Board, US Air Force, "USAF SAB Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Engine Development" 1973, Article on Tsien Hsue-shen, Chinese scientist, Directory of Research Advisory Committees of NASA 1959, Miscellaneous letters, Directory of members of National Advisory Committee for aeronautics and its committees and subcommittees, 1958, Letter from William Littlewood asking GSS to be a member on the ad hoc panel on target drones. 1956
Yellow folder, miscellaneous graphs and articles, vortex generators, wing dynamics, etc.
Blue binder: typed "Stories XX', conversation between GSS and his wife?, writings from Feb. 1995
Light blue binder - Story Course appendix- for the writing of his autobiography, stories, etc?
Massive white binder the variety of topics- post-it note dividers. Letters, science stuff, graphs, etc.
Gray binder: sweep/ swept-wing papers
Navy Blue binder: computer indexes
Red binder: drafts of his autobiography?
White binder: various notes, graphs, articles: Turb BL, reliability, cost, vortex generator, wind tunnels, etc.
Container 8
Journal of Aeronautical Sciences 1952-57
Journal of Aerospace Sciences 1958-1962
Container 9
Folder of drafts of papers 1990-1999
Folder of autobio documents
Folder of miscellaneous newspaper clippings from 1958-1977 about airplanes, people, GSS and family, Boeing Newsletters
Slides of aircraft and data charts/graphs
Grey Binder of data, calculations, tables of different aircraft, photos
Red Binder of paper drafts
Green Binder of computations/data about wings
Bound collection of data on BTWT 1714 Wind Tunnel 757
Small collection of air foil data
Proposed wind tunnel revisions for transonic testing
Boeing commercial plane data 1972
Large amount of miscellaneous computation charts/tables, transparencies Spec/Description packet on Cessna 1979
Paper: Pods vs. Submerged Engines by J.E. Steiner, January 25, 1951
Development of Wing Spoilers, August 1950
Designs for commercial aircraft graphs for cost vs. size
Data on low speed characteristics of arrow wings 1959
Data on B-47 bound together "B-47 Familiarization"
Packet: "Opportunities for new Programs" for presentation?
Data on Basic aerodynamics information preceding the design of the model 450
Paper: "Pilot Error and Jet Transport Deisgn, November 1988 by W.H. Cook
Packet: "Airborne survival nuclear deterrent systems" for presentation
Container 10
First Brown Folder - Certificate for piloting Boeing Hydrofoil Jet-Craft GSS 1963
First Brown Folder - 1983/84 Advisory Council Stanford University daily agenda
First Brown Folder - Programs for Research Directors' Conference Cal. Tech 1973-1975
First Brown Folder - Certificate of election 1971, GSS office of Commissioner for Water District
First Brown Folder - Anglo-American Conference program 1951
First Brown Folder - AIAA newsletter 1991, 1987
First Brown Folder - Princeton University Guest Speaker schedule for Spring 1968
First Brown Folder - Program for 9th international council of Aeronautical Sciences 1974
Lots of invitations to meetings and functions
First Brown Folder - Newspaper clipping on Boeing doubling in size in 10 years
First Brown Folder - Graphs
First Brown Folder - Bound book Boeing Jet transport circa 1949
First Brown Folder - GCC Personal correspondence
First Brown Folder - Congratulations from various people on GSS becoming a member of National Academy of Sciences in 1968
Brown flap folder full of magazine/newspaper clippings on important figures in aviation history
Flight international magazine December 13, 1973
American Helicopter Society Newsletter Sept-Dec 1961
Short book on the autogiro
Scientific notebook GSS, aerodynamics started 1939
Notebook on Photography, symposium on frontiers of science and engineering circa 1959
Bound notebook full of computations and graphs, and telegraph from 1936
Brown folder full of graphs and charts, blue prints of aircraft and informational books on 707
Green folder - Paper Technology and the Bright New world ahead 1973
Green folder - Paper Some notes on the value of Flexibility
Green folder - Paper A New Approach to Systems Engineering for Commercial Products
Green folder - Charts Effect of design range and design passenger capacity
Green folder - Magazine article on Anglo-American conference "Flight" 1953
Green folder - Report on NASA committee on aircraft operating problems 1960
Green folder - Lots of sheets for of computations
Packet biography on Edwin Gilliland
Packet biography on William McLean
Letter on Vibration, Bobble and shuffle from GSS 1975
Green folder - AIAA newsletter 1990
Green folder - Packet on Wind tunnel facilities 1957
Green folder - Blue prints for wind tunnel
Green folder - Packet side investigations MX 2145
Green folder - Boeing News May 1944 about Wind tunnel
Green folder - Packet about the 707
Green folder - Paper aircraft design present and future 1964
Green folder - Book on the sonic boom 1967
Blue prints for assembly universal joint
Green folder - Scientific notebook GSS, stability 1939
Black Bound book filled with graphs and charts, performance and nomenclature
Gary-green bound book volume 1 & 2 from HC Borough full of calculating data
Information of earthquake in San Fernado Valley area
Information on Theodore von Karman foundation
Packet on Rotary wing aircraft fundamentals
Misc magazine clippings many invitations and agendas for events
Second brown folder - Certificate from WSU board of regents GSS, appointed to advisory board 1961
Second brown folder - Rough draft of paper new approach to systems engineering for commercial products
Second brown folder - Brochure for P&O Jet Ferries
CSecond brown folder - ertificate for honoring America’s leaders for community leaders and noteworthy Americans 1974
Second brown folder - Certificate for membership into American rocket society
Second brown folder - Boeing Magazine May 1947, April 1946
Second brown folder - Photo of a drawing of GSS
Second brown folder - Profile of a chief research and development executive compares statistics about position 1968
Second brown folder - Boeing Magazine Jan. 1952
Second brown folder - Biography paper on Theodore von Karman - October 1957 and May 1981
Second brown folder - Certificate NY Academy of Sciences outstanding contributions to aerospace engineering, December 6, 1979
Calculations on XB29 Power Tunnel Test at Cal Tech
Magazine clippings on landing gear
Packet of charts
Black Binder Paper on Unresolved Technology 1991, autobio stuff, wind tunnels as an aircraft design tool design vs. research 1993
Black photo album 1962 trip to Pakistan, GSS and wife, all of cocktail party
Folder photographs taken in Europe May 1945
Autobio information list of computer files
Packet concerning US Patent Office and Fluid Foil 1934
Paper on Upset, Recovery, Break-up and Flight Control Design 1979
Paper Notes on Rocket Experiments for Science Club 1959
Countless graphs, charts, data computation notes
Poem "My Life" by George Snyder November 15, 1997
Report on Landing Gear Length Requirements, September 1967
Paper Reverse Thrust Testing, November 1954
Report specs on Model 473 Jet transport
10 Year pin photo presentation
Configuration review for Model 1041
Newspaper clipping 747 engine mounting
Packet: flight control and integrity objectives description of each objective 1979
Newspaper clippings about crash of jet in Pittsburgh, Seattle Times 1994
Paper: Sweepback Theory
Computations charts B-29 1941
Packet of proposed wind tunnel revisions for transonic testing 1950?
Paper: Reconstitution of Product Economics Group within office of VP-Research and Development
Packet: Transport Aircraft operating economics
Large blue prints of general arrangement of Model 450
Bound First design requirements for B-52 1948 presented to GSS 1978
Book: Flugzeuge von HFB, in German
Book: Study of Technology Assessment 1969
Book: Flight and operational manual for B-29, July 1943
Pamphlet: The petoscope: a new principle in photoelectric applications 1936
Book: Jet Propulsion in Commercial air Transportation by Robert Hage 1948
Book: National Academy of Sciences membership directory 2000
Container 11
Folder with photos, charts and graphs regarding wings
Binder: A new commercial aircraft solution design for Lindbergh field
Packet on 757 approach climax altitude analysis
Biographical memoirs on Carl Soderberg
Photos
Packet: new analytical tools and techniques for high lift work
Letter to Professor Gharib
Papers on Slotted cruise airfoil
Packet on development of wing spoilers
Packet on DC 9/DC 10 Wing design 1976
Packet on compressible flow
Draft memos on the 7X7
Wind tunnel study of the effect of wing fuselage interference on the low speed characteristics of a 25 degree sweptback wing model 1969
Article and photos on B-47 strato jet March 25 19XX, Lake Okeechobee
Chapter from book chapter 15, airplanes
Notebook on career with USAF received 1995
737 Wing drop analysis
Final summary pages for Lttas study
Memo: Prospects for a Slotted Airfoil, August 27, 1992, Development of Wing Spoilers
Study Series: Vortex Wakes of Large Aircraft, June 15-16, 1974
High Speed Flow Fhysics
Memo: Induced Drag of Flapped Wings, June 14, 1956
Graphs: Turbo-jet Range, November 17, 1947
Speed Stability Criteria, December 5, 1978
Memo: Premliminary Summary of Leading Edge Boundary Layer Control Wind Tunnel Test Results, March 3, 1964
Blue Prints: General Arrangement - Model 747-261, June 2, 1966
Draft paper: Boundary Layer and m\Mixing Layer Structures
Copy of Article: Crew Cited For Saving Crippled, Burning B-47
Symposium - A New Commercial Aircraft Solution, April 19, 1997, "Design for Lindbergh Field Trans-Pacific Airplane Family"
Paper: "A New Approach to Systems Engineering for Commercial Products", March 6, 1967
Article: "The First B-29 Raid on Tokyo - SAN ANTONIO I", April 1999
Paper: "Correcting the Boeing 314 Directional Stablity" by Edmund T. Allen, January 1943 - The Sixth Wright Brothers Lecture from the Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences
Article: Airfoil Drag Prediction and Decomposition, July-August 1999
Paper: "Factors Determoning the Cost of Operating an Airliner", December 10, 1993
Paper: Stability and Control of the B-52, November 3, 1960
Translation of a German speech regarding the Messerschmitt A6, including graphs and photographs
Large white binder; biography, letters Jan 1970-Dec 1971, BSRL, articles by GSS
Pamphlets: Alberg 35
Boat sketches and diagrams
Pamphlet: Properties of High Explosives, 1945
Red binde:; illegible notes, photocopied articles on varying aircraft
Orange binder: science notes
Papers: Flow Field Studies of A Transport Airplane Configuration
Bound computations
Altitude Effects on survival and radar effectiveness
Report: "Flight profiles for the Nike-Zeus, HiBEX Super UpSTAGE, and Sprint Launch Systems, 1972
"The Accuracy Problem of Strategic Bombing" 1979
Report: Scanning Capabilities of radars, 1967
"Effect of aim point error"
767 Inboard double slot analysis
757 Flexible Krueger Design for short field version
Report: “the design of a low drag denver take-off leading edge flap" 1978
"Recollections" by Courtland Perkins
Wind tunnel tests on a high wing monoplane
Brochure: "vortex wakes of large aircraft"
Report: "Rolling moments due to rolling and yaw for four wing models in rotation"
Negative of a wing
"Transport aircraft operating economics" by G.S. Shairer
Ziploc bag with transparencies and barely legible index
Bound diagrams: Platform Comparison, August 1976
Report: "Attitude indication following in-flight upset- commercial transport airlines" 1979
Wing charts
File from UW Aeronautical Lab "Wind Tunnel Tests on a 1/18 scale model of the Boeing 307 airplane" circa 1939-40
Bag with photos- models in a wind tunnel?
Small brown folder - Dollar bill with several signatures, 1944, Boeing B-29 flight info preliminary Pamphlet, "A Brief History" the international council of the aeronautical sciences, 1980, Boeing B-29, some flying information, Harvard Advanced Management program Record, 1957 - Hawaii, Several programs from various Annual Anglo-American Aeronautical Conferences, various travel postcards, postcard of Boeing 707
Larger brown folder of letters, itineraries, and phone lists
Larger brown folder of magazine articles
Memo to Boeing from GSS "Disposition of My Files", January 27, 1986
The Boeing Company - Defense of Cities - February 3, 1969
Ballistic Missile Offense Memo, February 28, 1963
Container 12
Two Envelopes of Werle Color negatives, water flow pictures
Dark blue binder; for presentation on B-47? Papers in plastic covers, slide labels
Computer file index papers
Booklet on the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, 1989
Booklet: "The First Boeing High-Speed Wind Tunnel", by William Cook
Black binder: autobiography, sources on info
Bound collection of lined paper notes, 1986, Turb BL?
Bound collection of lined paper notes, 1983, "Separation, Stalling, and Related Phenomena"
Green folder, Fluid Mechanics - labeled "Fluid Mech"
Brown vertical file folder: collection of 8x10 B&W photos; airplanes, models, wind tunnel, planes in construction - labeled "BOEING"
Blue spiral notebook of notes
Brown vertical file folder of letters, most addressed to GSS, but does not contain THE letter - labeld "Letters"
Copies of "The Engineering Revolution Leading to the Boeing 707", by GSS, AIAA Aerodynamics Conference, Seattle 1989
Black binder with GSS retirement party pictures, letters, cards, etc.
Vertical file folder of obituaries
Brown vertical file folder labeled 'memories' random notes and graphs, news clippings of Schairer at 15
Various letters and articles
One page autobiography of GSS
GSS Resignation Notes, April 1987
Stapled collection of copies of GSS's Department of Defense Personnel Security Questionnaire, travel log, organization involvement, etc
Brown vertical file folder: Dept. of Defense info, letters, notes, etc. Articles.
Container 13
Book 'Bird Flight' 200 Action Photos by Gordon C. Aymar 1938
Various articles, arranged according to author's last name, A-G
Container 14
Various articles, arranged according to author's last name, Q-Z
Container 15
Various articles, arranged according to author's last name, H-P
Container 16
Boeing Annual reports 1987-91, 93, 94
Old scientific notebook of GSS
German book, "Abriss der stronmunglehre" by Ludwig prandtl 1931
Math book "Advanced Calculus" by Frederick Woods 1926
Report to Stockholders 1946, 1951
Boeing Annual reports 1952-1981, 1984-1986, 1995
Booklet The Boeing Company, "Defining Aerospace Leadership" 1997
Articles from J. Fluid Mech. 2000
Roll of negatives 1934
Wooden pen
The Boeing Logbook 1916-1991 (Boeing history - timeline and airplanes)
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents6/1/1983
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents10/1/1992
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents9/1/1992
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents1/1/1986
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents2/1/1986
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents3/1/1993
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents1/1/1993
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents12/1/1992
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents9/1/1985
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents8/1/1985
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents7/1/1985
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents6/1/1985
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents3/1/1985
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents2/1/1985
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents1/1/1985
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents5/1/1985
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents8/1/1992
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents11/1/1985
J.Fluid Mech articles unbound with hard cover table of contents
Container 17
Multiple copies of "The Engineering Revolution Leading to the Boeing 707", by GSS, AIAA Aerodynamics Conference, Seattle 1989
Multiple copies of "The Role of Competition in Aeronautics", GSS, Wright memorial lecture, London 1968
The Next Revolution in Electronics by GSS, presented to the Western Electronics Manufacturers Association, June 1962
"Pod Mounting of Jet Engines" GSS Anglo-American Aeronautical Conference 1953, multiple copies
Multiple copies of "On Wave Induced Capsizing" GSS, 1984
Container 18
Stratford Diffusion Air Foils 1954
Breakthroughs. Diffusers and Confusers. Large collection of bound papers
Maroon Whitman binder: GSS Stories catalog, 1-20
Booklet, "Pod Mounting of Jet Engines", GSS, 1953, 2 copies
"The Role of Competition in Aeronautics", GSS, Wright memorial lecture, London 1968
"Some Opportunities for Progress in Aircraft Performance" by GSS, 27th Wright Bros. Lecture, AIAA meeting, 1964, New York
A Study of Factors Which Limit the Use of Military Aircraft (B-29 and B-17) not dated
"Carburetion" by GSS 1932
"Looking Ahead in V/STOL" by GSS, presented at IAS-RAeS Meeting, London, 1961
"Transport Aircraft Operating Economics", GSS, date unknown, for Boeing
Schematic diagram of Stromberg injection carburetor with fuel head enrichment valve, Bendix Aviation Corp. 1946
Notes on VTOL climb performance, 1958
Draft of "Airplane Performance", early 1943
Collection of notes, articles, and papers on industry, manufacturing, etc. 1960's
Booklet 'The Engineering Revolution Leading to the Boeing 707' by GSS, presented at the AIAA 7th annual applied aerodynamics conf., 1989, Seattle
"Schairer's Airplane Slide Rule for the estimation of airplane performance" by GSS, copyright 1937
"On Wave-Induced Capsizing", GSS, 1984
"The Next Revolution in Electronics" by GSS, presented to the Western Electronics Manufacturers Association, June 1962
"Perspective of SST Aircraft Noise Problem" by GSS, J.V. O'Keefe, and P.E. Johnson, 1968
Stapled transparencies: acceleration, particle velocities, etc.
Boeing Management Perspective, Volume 2, Number 6, November/December 1996
Stapled papers on Meteorology
"Industry Requirements for Creativity Training of Graduate Engineering Students" by GSS, 1966?
"Notes on Rocket Experiments for Science Club", GSS, 1959
"Design for Reliability", GSS and Herbert Clayman, 1957
Paper clipped papers on wind shear, accidents, etc, 1983
Collection of graphs
Analysis of the TWA N840TW Maneuver Incident, 1979 over Michigan
"Summary of Blowing Nacelle Data", John Foster and Philip Kirk, 1966, Boeing report
Boeing report, "A Two-dimensional wind tunnel study of advanced high-lift concepts with boundary layer control- phase 1", A.S. Mahal, 1967
Nacelle Blowing test results, 1966
Container 19
Large vertical file: articles, organized according to author's last name
Maroon binder: articles, photos, graphs, about planes
Multiple copies of "Aircraft Design- Present and Future" by GSS, presented at first annual meeting of AIAA, 1964, WA D.C.
Multiple copies of "Some Opportunities for Progress in Aircraft Performance" by GSS, 27th Wright Bros. Lecture, AIAA meeting, 1964, New York City
Multiple copies of "A Summary and Overview of V/STOL Concepts" by GSS, V/STOL Tech. and Planning Conference, Las Vegas, 1969
8x10 sepia tone photo of a young woman - no identification on photo
Container 20
NASA Contractor Report "Rotary-Wing Aerodynamics Vol. 1 Basic Theories of Rotor Aerodynamics (With application to helicopters)" 1979
NASA Contractor Report "Rotary-Wing Aerodynamics Vol. 2 Performance Prediction of Helicopters" 1979
Black leather 7-ring notebook, GSS, notes, from time he lived in Bronxville, NY
Green binder: drafts and edited articles/reports/autobiography
Black binder: book 10 of autobiography drafts
Red binder: Handling Characteristics, etc. plus autobiographical papers
Black binder: propellers, A and B, 1995
Maroon binder: for autobiography- roll upset A, B, and C, unresolved, aero membership
Gray binder- some notes concerning aircraft performance and the control of an aircraft's flight path
Black binder: writings on European airliners, by GSS, and some news clippings
Large black binder: autobiography rough drafts, 1995
Blue binder: rough draft of auto bio, 1996
Container 21
George S. Schairer' brass plaque, 1978 Honoring his Boeing accomplishments (bottom of the box)
Torn article on the 'Consolidated Model PBY-2 5-place patrol bomber'
Small collection of photos of planes and components- most swept wing, 707, XB-47
Miscellaneous photos
Negative of the Convair XB-46 Bomber
Invitation to Museum of Flight's "Wings over the Pacific" exhibit, 1993
8x10 photo of the Boeing 767-300
8x10 photo of the Boeing 757
Financial notes: stocks, Otto S. Schairer Trust, 1976-77
Folder of papes: school notes (?) "Airplane Performance Estimation -Airplane Slide Rule-" GSS 1935, "Airplane Performance Predication, "An Airplane Slide Rule", Schairer Rudder Control for Aircraft memo to Bendix Products Corporation, Patent Department
Graphs and transparencies
List of GSS inventions and patents, and more info on each.
Response to GSS's request for disposition of his files, stapled to GSS's rough draft of request
Letter regarding checks for bonuses payable, stapled to diagrams of propeller components?
Swarthmore college report, "A Mathematical Analysis of Flight" W.E. Boeing Scholarship, GSS, 1934
Polaroid picture, 1999, airplane models on wall (of office?)
Published copy of "Schairer's Airplane Slide Rule for the Estimation of Airplane Performance" by GSS, copyright 1937
Boxed set, "Articles and Addresses of Theodore P. Wright" Volume 1: Aeronautical Engineering, "Articles and Addresses of Theodore P. Wright" Volume 2: Aircraft Production, Uses of Aviation, "Articles and Addresses of Theodore P. Wright" Volume 3: Impact of Aviation, University Activities
Book 'Boeing's Ed Wells', by Mary Wells Geer, 1992. Inside cover has a news clipping of author's obituary
Book 'Flying High: The Story of Boeing and the Rise of the Jetliner Industry', nby Eugene Rodgers 1885
Booklet: 'Voyager 1 Encounter With Jupiter', NASA, 1979
Book: 'NASA Technical Translation: Theory of the Lifting Airscrew' February 1972
Book: 'Vol. 4 Articles and Addresses of Theodore P. Wright: A Post Retirement Miscellany' Volume IV, 1970
Book: 'Die deutsche Luftfahrt: Willy Messerschnitt- Pionier der Luftfahrt und des Leichtbaues' by Hans J. Ebert, Johann B. Kaiser, Kalus Peters 1992
Booklet: 'Past and Present', by G.S. Schairer, Engineering Education Unit, 1953
Collection of Boeing Travel Expense reports and travel vouchers, 1950's-70's
Container 22
Royal Blue binder: many sections, all containing articles, graphs, and equations- some topics: spiral stability, tailspin, sweep, vortices, propulsion systems, etc.
Dark Blue binder: drawings of planes, pictures, wind tunnel, zero sweep model, etc.
Red binder: no index, collection of photos, ads, letters, performance reports, graphs, etc.
White binder: collection of articles and reports, wide variety of topics- vortices, turbulence, flow, etc.
Bound papers: articles and graphs on flow, airfoils and tails
Black binder: more physics papers, early 1990's
Light blue folder: landing gear
Red folder: typed and handwritten notes 1993ish
Small dark blue binder: wind tunnels
Green binder: typed notes and reports, from the 1990's
Container 23
Large file of wave papers, data and charts (in an envelope at the bottom of the box)
Presentation boards/cards "The engineering revolution leading to the 707 1989
Old aerodynamics notebook organized by model
Bound collection of wing data, charts, tables
Invoices as member of Model 650 Advisory Committee 1980
Miscellaneous correspondence and data
Folder of hand written information about waves difficult to read
US yacht racing union, interim report of the directors April 1983
US yacht racing union, 2nd interim report of the directors June 1984
More articles and reports about waves
Paper: "Optimum design of Airfoils" by F.X. Wortmann 1976
Photo of Boeing Jetfoil with Space needle in background
Vertol Aircraft Corp. 1959 financial information
Packet: "Passenger load factors and market penetration of competing airplane types 1970
Boeing external blown flap stol demonstrator wind tunnel tests 1970
Green pamhplet: "Behind An Air Victory: A Case History of One Company's Contribution to the W inning of World War II (2 copies)
Boeing Magazine June 1955
Booklet: "Voyager 1 encounters Saturn" Dec 1980
Photos of airfoil made to demonstrate upper and lower surface blowing 1971
Boeing Magazine July 1966 50th anniversary edition
General Electric Magazine "Project Cirrus" Nov 1952
Notebook: A meteorological analysis of the 720 airplane incident at O'Neill, Nebraska 1967
Aramco World May-June 1992 "The Middle East and The Age of Discovery"
Paper by M.S. Longuet-Higgins "The trajectories of particles in steep, symmetric gravity waves 1978
Airliner Jan-Mar 1997 737-700 First Flight
Notebook: "A General propeller chary suitable for a wide range of propellers 1943
Miscellaneous months from a calendar with sketches of aircraft for each month
Packet: "Flight control and integrity objectives" 1979
French brochure of recommendations for airline 1991 "L'avion de transporte a haute vitesse"
Small booklet about the Red barn
Container 24
Articles from many different journals and years about waves
Newspaper clippings about capsizing accident 1982
NASA book "Wave climate model of the mid-Atlantic shelf and shoreline 1974
"Fastnet Race Inquiry" 1979 Royal Yachting association
"Measuring Ocean Waves" symposium and workshop 1981
Container 25
White binder of airfoil data and calculations
White binder of tables, charts and graphs (starts with standard altitude table)
White binder organized by Action Item of data and calculations - named "Result of George Schairer Meeting" December 2, 1997
Green Binder with diagrams, transparencies, calculations September 15, 1998
Binder of correspondence copies 1959-1979
White binder of journal articles and papers about air foils
Purple binder of graphs charts data on airfoils
White binder with bibliography, data charts and graphs
Green Binder aircraft design notes, data and articles, presentation on 707 given at 7th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics conference 1989
Orange/Red binder titled Some Rocks to Look Under in a Search for a Superior "150" Twin Turbofan Transport (various versions)
Container 26
THIS IS MOSTLY A BOX OF WAVE RELATED ARTICLES (except first three items)
Bound data on Strip theory and stability in Aviation
Bound wing data on B-52
Very large bound collection on Limitations of strip theory Stability in Aviation
Green Binder with long bibliography and data/paper on particle trajectories in the highest wave Research bulletin I-37 Maximum Wave Conditions for Design, Society of Naval Architects1978
Copy of Science June 1979
Journal article: of Geophysical research, about white caps and wind speed Jan 1974
Journal article: of Geophysical research, about Wind dependence of Radar Sea Return June 1974
Paper by David LeVine Spectrum of Poser scattered by a short pulse from a stochastic surface Aug 1974
Paper by Calvin Swift Simulation of synthetic aperture radar imaging of ocean waves Oct. 1974 Nasa Tech Memorandum
Paper by David LeVine Scattering of obliquely incident plane waves from a corrugated conducting surface, April 1975 NASA TM
Table of contents for book Ocean Wave Spectra May 1961
Chapter One: on observations of the directional spectrum of sea waves using the motions of a floating buoy May 1961
Chapter Two: What can data analysis and statistics offer today
Chapter Five: Some engineering aspects of wave spectra
Chapter Six: radar sea return and ocean wave spectra
Paper for International Symposium on Hydrodynamics in ocean engineering, in Norway 1981 "Numerical calculations of forces from breaking waves
Paper for 14th symposium of Naval Hydrodynamics in Mich. August 1982 "Numerical approach to nonlinear ship-motion
Paper: Lamont Poole, Transformation of apparent ocean wave spectra observed from an aircraft sensor platform NASA Tech Note June 1976
Paper: J.W. Dold and D.H. Peregrine "Steep Unsteady Water Waves: An efficient computational scheme: 1984
Paper: R.S. Johnson "On the oblique interaction of a large and small solitary wave Feb. 1981
Paper: O.M. Phillips "Nonlinear dispersive waves" 1974
Paper: Teresa Kathleen Chereskin "The Development of nonlinear surface and internal wave groups" 1976
Paper: Daniel Meiron, Philip Saffman and Henry Yuen "Calculation of steady 3D deep-water waves 1982
Journal of Waterways and Harbors Division "Shoaling of Solitary waves on small slopes: Feb. 1969
Report from Norwegian Hydrodynamic Laboratories "Design Waves" 1981
Dozen photos of waves in the ocean
Article from Marine Tech Oct 1978 "Application of Seakeeping Analysis
Society of Naval Architects and Marine engineers 1981"Risk and Operability Analysis in the Marine Environment
Transactions 1990 "Seakeeping Studies: A status report"
Transactions 1990 "The Reconstruction of the Exxon Valdez"
Transactions 1990 "Design and Construction of the US Coast Guard's 47ft self righting, Heavy Weather Rescue craft
Transactions 1990 "Hydrodynamics of Remotely sensed surface ship wakes"
Journal of Ship Research 1991"The Transient Capsie diagram-A new method of Quantifying stability in waves"
Marine Tech. 1991 "Ship Maneuverablity analysis using steady-state techniques"
Marine Tech. 1989 " Design and Hydrodynamic Performance of Sailboat Keels"
Journal of Ship Research 1990 "Numerical Modeling of Ship Motions and Capsizing in Severe Seas"
Journal of Ship Research 1991 "Nonlilnear local analysis of steady flow about a ship"
Transactions 1990 "Sailing Yacht Design- A New Appreciation of a Fine Art"
Journal of Ship Research 1991 "Forces on Surface-Piercing Propellers with inclination"
Journal of Ship Research 1991 "A review of the Kelvin Ship Wave Pattern"
Wavelet Analysis Annotative Bibliography
Journal of Ship research Sept 1990
Marine Tech. 1990 "Boundary-Layer explorations over a 2D Mast/Sail geometry
Journal of Ship Research 1990 "On Optimum large Amplitude Sculling Propulsion by Wings of Finite Span"
Journal of Ship Research 1990 "Diffraction Waves About an advancing wedge model in deep water"
Journal of Ship Research 1993 "Modern Nonlinear dynamical analysis of vertical plane motion of planning hulls"
Transactions 1993 "Predicting the Speed of Sailing Yachts"
Transactions 1993 Naval Architecture Technology used in Winning the 1992 American's cup match
Marine Tech. 1993 "A Resistacne Study of a Systematic Series of Low L/B vessels
Norwegian Hydrodynamics Laboratories Report on Stabilty criteria for wessels operating in a seaway 1985
Norwegian Hydrodynamics Laboratories Report Stabilty for vessels balanced on a wavecrest in following waves. Hydrostatical calculations-model tests 1985
Misc data charts
Marine Tech. 1990 "Design of a 40ft Multihull Sailboat for Offshore racing"
Transactions 1992 "Correlation studeis on Propeller cavitation making use of a large cavitation tunnel"
Transactions 1992 "D-Series systematic experiments with models of fast twin-screw displacement ships
Journal of Ship Research 1992 "on the Hydrodynamics of Vertically Oscillating Planing Hulls
Journal of Ship Research 1992 "Mean Flow Measurements in the eboundary Layer and Wake and Wave Field of a Series 60 Cb=.6…"
Marine Tech 1989 "Sailing Vessel Stability0with Particular reference to the Pride of Baltimore casuality"
Skip I Sjogang Ships in Rough Seas Report "Forecast of Breaking Waves on the Norwegian Continental shelf 1981
Paper Soren Peter Kjeldsen "2 and 3 Dimensional deterministic freak waves" Nov 1982
Journal of Ship Research 1981 "From Bulbous bow to Free-Surface Shock Wave-Trends of …"
Marine Tech. 1996 "Sailing Ship Intact Stability Criteria"
Marine Tech. 1992 "Dynamic Stability of Planing Boats
Paper: Joseph Salsich and John Zseleczky "Experimental studies of Capsizing in breaking waves" 1983
Paper: Ming-Yang Su and Albert Green "Wave Breaking and Nonlinear Instablity coupling" 1984
J. Fluid Mech. 1977 "Directional slope and curvature distributions of wind waves"
Paper: Erik Mollo-Christensen "Surface signs of internal ocean dynamics" 1973
Newspaper clipping NY Times May 22 1985 Oil Rig Capsizing in Louisiana
Newspaper clipping about coast guard expanding service circa late 1960s early 70s
Applied Ocean Research 1984 "Parametric modeling of joint probability density distributions for…"
Norwegian Maritime Research 1984 "Dangerous Wave Group"
Skip I Sjogang Ships in Rough Seas Report "Forecast of Breaking waves on the Norwegian Continental shelf 1981
Paper: Richard Lee Storch et al. "Natural environment stability tests of an industrial vessell hull form" 1982
Paper: Michael Triantafyllou and Marc Bodson "Real Time Prediction of Marine Vessel Motions, using Kalman filtering techniques 1982
J. Fluid Mech. 1976 "A numerical model of the air flow above water waves"
J. Fluid Mech. 1975 "Wind-generated gravity-capillary waves: laboratory measurements of temporal growth rates…"
Journal articles from geophysical research 1964-1972
Report from Marine Exploration limited 1974
Paper: S.P. Kjeldsen "the experimental verification of numerical models of plunging breakers" 1984
Science 1990 Imaging Radar
J. Fluid Mech 1971 airflow and waves
MIT paper: Theodore Loukakis "Extreme wave hieghts and ship responses in a seaway" 1970
Marine Tech 1982 Waves
J. Fluid Mech 1977
Container 27
Stapled book Airplane Upsets, full of charts and data, September 1979
Report on Gust intensity tolerance of the B-52G & H
Correspondence between GSS and K.F. Holtby 1983 lots of expense information
Correspondence between GSS and M.T. Stamper 1982 lots of expense information
Correspondence between GSS and M.T. Stamper 1981 lots of expense information
Correspondence between GSS and M.T. Stamper 1980 expenses
Aviation Week 1/20/1958
Aviation Week 1/20/1969
Packet on Predicting the Grounding strength of Ships
Aviation article from Time Magazine April 1980
Aviation Week 8/4/1969 and 8/11/69
Red Binder: Minutes from Retire Breakfast 9/27/97 with charts and data from discussion
Nomination and application for Ludwig Bolkow to win Daniel Guggenheim Medal 1993
Correspondence between GSS and Library of Congress division of Aeronautics 1936
Paper: Critical military vehicle technology
Newsletter: Air Museum News, Pacific Museum of Flight, Vol. No. 2, August 1979
Engineering matrix, charts on wind for B-52
Newspaper clipping from Tokyo Newspaper in Japanese?
Program and speech from Bill Allen dinner May 20, 1977
Magazine article International Science and Tech. April 1965 competition brings out brightest to perform
Packet :Profile Deltoid Pumpkin seed 3
Packet: Profile Center of a new World
NY Times clipping of Declaration of Independence 1961
Packet: Aspects of instrument development for all-weather operation
Packet: on considerations of safety in automatic flight control
Pamphlet: Simulation of an economy with development and trade problems 1962
Packet: Appendix A on classroom, lab, thesis direction statistics 1965
Packet: development of scientific and technical manpower resources 1965
Pamphlet: in German Die Geschichte der Me 262 1962
Article from AIAA journal Aerodynamic properties of a Two-Dimensional Inextensible flexible airfoil 1984
Packet: of charts and data
Members of United Engineering Foundation 2000
Article from Aviation week and Space Tech. 1999
Book in German Messerchmitt Flugzeuge on various German aircraft
Chapter from Aerospace Proceedings on Britain's influence on World Aviation 1966
Packet full of GSS notes
Transparencies of charts and graphs
Pages on quieting the noise level of aircraft silencing noggels
Information on Pakistan airline and who to contact
Many magazine articles on varies things
Many newspaper clippings too
Long articles photocopied concerning turbulence
Paper: Andre A Baudat BioEgineering Flight, an hypothesis on bird flight mechanism and its possible application to aircraft, August 22, 1980
Articles from AIAA 8/2000
French report on visual hydrodynamics by Henri Werle 1971
Pamphlet: "How Decisions are made for aircraft programs 1982 Wright Bros. Lectureship in Aeronautics
Case study in Aircraft design 727 1978
Bound charts, data concerning 2D stall and fluid mechanics
Selected Financial Data on Boeing 1935-1959
Theoretical and Experimental contribution to the study of boundary layer control by blowing Dec. 1960
Misc chart data graphs
Fortune, September 1951, Boeing's Bombers
Yesterflight pamphlet, Pacific Northwest Aviation Historical Foundation, Vol. 3, #1, Spring 1978
AIAA 1982 Sources and Detection of Atmospheric Wind Shear
Large graph of Boeing analysis of flight recorder data NWA-N730 US Albany GA
Large graph of Boeing analysis of flight recorder data UAL-N7213U O'Neill, Neb
Data concerning 30 degree elliptical gate
Data concerning force summaries for Runs 12-260
Data concerning configuration summaries 20-260
Expense Reports and Contracts between Boeing and GSS early 80s
Wing notes and data and letter from US Patent Office
IAS Journal May 1941 Directional Stability and Vertical Surface Stalling
Paper: Davis Wing and the problem of airfoil design by Walter Vincenti
Data, limited according to letter on top about the PT-19 program 1977
Paper: Directional Stability and Vertical surface stalling 1941
Data on fluid foil and wing development
Paper: Notes on Upset, Dive recovery and Break up 1979
Report on United Airlines Flight 746 1963 by Capt. G T. Henderson Flight Manager for United
Paper: Aircraft Design Present and Future
Journal article Systematic Wing Section Development Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences Jan 1947
Journal article Hydrodynamic Longitudinal stability Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences Aug. 1950
Pictures of the interior of jet engine
Paper: Society of Flight test engineers, September 18, 1969
Paper: “How the Airplane Designer can Help the People in the Cockpit” April 26, 1967 (two versions)
Paper: Transports by GSS, September 17, 1959
Speech to Purdue Branch Institute of Aeronautical Sciences
Papers: Technology and State-of-the-Art for Manned Aircraft in Future Warfare April 17, 1968, Part 1 & 2
Paper: Systematic Wing Section Development by GSS
Speech at Corporate Management Meeting, August 25, 1966
Paper: Role of Research in Stimulating Industrial Research and Community Growth by GSS, May 15, 1964
Paper: Design for Reliability by GSS and Herbert Clayman 1957
Paper: Remarks at Opening of Wellwood E. Beall exhibit at Pacific Museum of Flight by GSS September 28, 1979
Paper: Continuing Education and Retraining January 6, 1965
Paper: to President Science Advisory Committee "Retraining" of Scientific and Technology Manpower, August 3, 1964
Paper: Education, Research and Community economic Health 1960
GSS Commencement Address to Marysville HS 1963
Paper: Aeronautical and astronautical engineering 1963
Paper: Man and Machine in Space August 7-8, 1961
Paper: "Technology and the Bright New World Ahead" October 25, 1973
Statement to the Senate government operations committee 1975
Paper: “Designing for noise reduction” 1975
Paper: “Some Performance Considerations of a Jet Transport Airplane” 1953
Luncheon Speech 1969 to Armed Forces Management Association "Flying Article Competitions Can Save Money"
Paper: Airframe Propulsion Compatibility Symposium 1969 Communication Between System Engineers
Paper: Next revolution in electronics, June 21, 1962
Paper: University/Govt/Industry relations to aeronautics
Paper: Background on 707 Jet 1953
Paper: Supersonic Transport 1971
Container 28
Newspaper clippings
Copies of misc memos report of fuselage construction - copies of memo's written by Bendix
Party invitation to 85th birthday of HW Liepamann
Article: "Rotary wings at the beginning" from Flight journal, April 1999
National Academy of Engineering public directory list, March 17, 1999
Disposition of GSS files
Letter by GSS to fluid mechanics about importance of airflow
Article presentation at 16th Israel annual conference on aviation 1974
Boeing News 1997 sweep wings
Notebook: Study of atmospheric turbulence 1966
Notebook: Meteorological aspects of atmospheric turbulence 1966
Misc papers, photos, graphs very unorganized may have been together at one time, all hole punched - some subjects: Flow Separations, vortex lateral positions, lift annomolies, invention of the DC-9 supercritical airfoil
Stapled packet V-22 Flight test aerodynamic Refinements
Paper: Invention of the super critical air foil
Paper: 767 Denver Take off L/D Improvement
Paper in German
Misc newspaper articles
Series of articles by rev. Dale Turner, Seattle Times
Rough draft on flight control and integrity objective 1979
US air wake encounter scenario stapled packet
Pamphlet: Solid propellants for rockets and other jet propelled devices 1945
Binder on the 767
Folder on fatigue cracks
Folder complete bibliography
Folder titled wind tunnel pamphlet, eddie allen memorial labs, misc. notes B 52 info.
Folder titled "Effect of design cruise mach number" of graphs, jet engine performance, Pakistan itinerary for GSS and family dated October, 1962
Folder of photos of non Boeing aircraft and personal photos
Stapled packet static and dynamic testing of a 1/25th scale model 360 chopper flotation gear system 1981
Light blue Notebook Boeing and competitor’s aircraft a performance and economic comparison 1972
Boeing & competitor's aircraft - A Performance & Econonic Comparision 1971
Green Binder collection of journal articles from air nautical sciences 1950-51
Green Binder aerodynamic theory
Container 29
Color poster of B-29 and test pilot Eddie Allen
Navy blue Binder of slides; graphs, planes, test flights
Navy blue Binder with diagrams and info on vortexes and fluid mechanics. Slides of vortexes, fluid motion, and currents over planes in wind tunnel
Red binder; copy of autobiography of Otto Schairer, bio sketch of GSS, and indexed autobio of GSS
Navy blue binder with GSS bio sketches, bio info, education, foreign countries visited, papers written by GSS
Purple binder; more bio info, charts, engineering articles, more autobio info
Navy blue Binder of handwritten stuff (can't read it) and printed papers on Stalling
Black binder; inflow, handling characteristics, "an aerodynamycist encounters fluid mechanics, plus more bio of GSS
Library Books
Two books '50 Jahre Turbostrahlflug' 1989
Book 'Publications in Aeronautical Science' 1955
Book 'Aviation in Transition? Aircraft to be of different type?' by Grover Loening, May 21, 1969
Book 'Mathematical Methods in Engineering' by Karman and Boit 1940
Book 'The Iliad of Homer'
Book 'Von Gleitflug Zum Segelflug' by von Gustav Lilienthal 1923
Book 'Principles of Physics series: 'Mechanics' by Keith R. Symon January, 1957
Book 'Mathematics of Statistics' Part One by John F. Kenney September 1948
Book 'Airplane Performance, Stability, and Control' by Courtland D. Perkins and Robert E. Hage 1949
Book 'Of Flight and Life' by Charles A. Lindbergh 1948
Book 'John A. Brashear; An Autobiography' Edited by Lucian Scaife, C.E.,PhB 1924
Book 'Wide-Body: The Triumph of the 747', by Clive Irving First Edition 1993
Book 'Superfortress: The B-29 and American Air Power', by General Curtis E. LeMay and Bill Yenne 1988
Book 'Airplane Structures' by Alfred S. Niles andJoseph S. Newell 1929
Book 'The Wind and Beyond: Theodore von Karman Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Space' by Theodore von Karman with Lee D\Edson First Edition 1967
Book 'Not much of an Engineer' Sir Stanley Hooker, an autobiography Assisted by Bill Gunston 1984
Book 'Vision: The Story of Boeing', by Harold Mansfield 1966
Book 'The Challenge', by Harold Mansfield (The Tumultuous Story Behind America's Forts and Jets, First Impression, May 1958
Book 'Listen to Leaders in Engineering' Albert Love and James Saxon Childers, Editors 1965
Book 'Boeing The First Century', by Eugene E. Bauer 2000
Book 'The USAF Scientific Advisory Board: Its First Twenty Years 1944-1964' by Thomas A. Sturm, February 1967
Book 'Thermodynamics' by J.E. Emswiler, Revised by F.L. Schwartz, Firth Edition, Second Impression 1943
Book 'General Chemistry: An Elementary Survey' by Horace C. Deming, Third Edition 1930
George Schairer Engineering Design Letter
Eight notebook pages detailing German WWII swept wing design information
George Schairer Engineering Collection
The file cabinets and boxes are as they were when they arrived from Mr. Schairer. Two Seattle University student interns created the index of the materials.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Museum of Flight Archives
9404 East Marginal Way SouthSeattle, WA
206-764-5700
Archives@museumofflight.org
George Schairer Collection
Files and Cabinets are stored in the back in the passway for bay 43. The letter is stored in the safe.
Controlled Access Headings
Genre(s)
- Archival Ephemera
- Book -- Published Material
- Photographs
- Portrait
- Publications - Serial
Subject(s)
- Airplane Design
- Brochures
- Correspondence