Aviation Collections in the Special Collections
Department
Iowa State University Library
Beverly
E. Golemba, 1935-
Human
computers: the women in aeronautical research: typescript, 1994
MS
307
.21
linear ft.
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The
collection contains a variety of materials which document the early
days of flight in Iowa, including photographs, newspaper clippings,
correspondence, and scrapbooks. Robert
C. Mikesh, native Iowan, Air Force pilot, author, and Curator at the
Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, collected
these materials.
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Curtiss
JN-4 crash in an Iowa corn field, n.d.
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Greeting
card issued by the Ottumwa Chamber of Commerce to commemorate the
resumption of flight in Ottumwa, December 1, 1947
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Sunset
Patrol, 1940
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Alexander
Lippisch, 1894-1976
Papers,
1900-1990
MS
243
69.87
linear ft.
Alexander
Martin Lippisch was born in 1894 in Munich, Germany, to Franz and
Clara (Commichau) Lippisch. Alexander was educated at schools in
Berlin and Jena; and enlisted in Germany's armed forces in 1915. He
served as an aerial photographer and mapper. In 1943,
he was awarded a doctoral degree from the University of Heidelberg.
From 1918-1945, Lippisch held various positions in aviation in
Germany: as a designer, aerodynamicist, and director of research. In
1946, he emigrated with his family to the U.S., where he worked for
the Dept. of Defense. From 1950-1964, Alexander worked for the Collins
Radio Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and after his retirement, was
employed as a design consultant. Lippisch worked on a variety of
research projects throughout his career, including smoke tunnel
visualization, remote powered vehicles, delta shaped wings, and
aerofoil boats.
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Alexander M. Lippisch, n.d.
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This
collection contains biographical materials, subject files, research
files, publications, correspondence, patent materials, photographs and
other visual materials, drawings and blueprints, and films. The
records document Lippisch's life and work, including biographical and
career items, the history of aviation, research materials focusing on
human powered flight, data tables, delta wing plane information, test
results, the work of Lippisch in aerodynamic theory, and
correspondence regarding his research. The visual materials, including
the films, also document his research in aviation. A 1997 accretion
also records the work of Lippisch at Collins Aeronautical Research
Laboratory (CARL) and Collins Marine Laboratory, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Some materials are in German.
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Conceptual
drawing of Delta winged jets flying in formation, 1934
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Delta
IV single engine, one seat prototype, 1935
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Delta
IV single engine, two seat, n.d.
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Collins
Aeronautical Research Laboratory (CARL), 1959
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United
States patent issued to Lippisch for his design of the Aircraft
Aerofoil, 1933
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Ann
Holtgren Pellegreno
Papers,
1845-2000
MS
360
11.85
linear ft.
[N.B. access to this collection requires permission; please contact Special Collections]
Ann
Holtgren Pellegreno was raised in the Chicago area and graduated from
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a degree in music. In 1967, while an English teacher in Michigan, Pellegreno
piloted a rebuilt 1937 Lockheed Electra 10A around the world in
commemoration of the thirty-year anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s
historic voyage. She documented the experience in her 1971 book, World
Flight: The Earhart Trail (ISU Press). Pellegreno moved to
Iowa in 1969. In 1980,
she published the first volume of Iowa
Takes to the Air (Aerodrome Press), and six years later the
second volume was published. Pellegreno
was inducted into the Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame in 1990.
This
collection consists of Pellegreno's research material: correspondence,
clippings, manuscript drafts, and biographical files relating to the
history of aviation. Among
the paper records, photographs, audiotapes, and ephemera is
information about Lincoln Beachy, Clarence Chamberlin, Ellen Church,
the Donaldson Brothers, Carl H. Duede, Ila Fox, Neil J. McCoubrey,
Clarence Norton, Eddie Rickenbacker, the Wright Brothers, and several
Iowa air shows.
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Lloyd
Royer and Babe Reed barnstorming in West Liberty, Iowa, 1920
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Brochure
for the Weeks Aircraft Corp. of N.C., n.d.
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Part
of a page from Jack Kirstein’s scrapbook, 1940s
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Milton
Sage Robertson, 1892-1987
Papers,
1930-1987
MS
325
.42
linear ft.
Milton
S. Robertson was the inventor of a rotary brush atomiser for crop spraying
in 1930, and he organized the Independent Crop Dusting Company of San
Francisco, California, in the early 1930s. His business was centered in the
farm and fruit lands around San Francisco, Modesto, Fresno, and Brentwood,
California. Robertson was inducted into the National Agricultural Aviation
Museum Hall of Fame in 1983 and was later presented the National
Agricultural Aviation Association's Agrinaut award.
Collection
contains ten 8mm films made by Robertson in the 1930s to show farmers the
advantages of aerial crop dusting and to teach pilots the techniques of the
business. It also includes five photocopied articles (1933, 1984, 1987)
regarding Robertson's pioneering work in crop dusting and his invention of
the crop-spraying device.
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