John Stack (engineer)
{{short description|American aerospace engineer}}
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John Stack (1906–1972) was an aerospace engineer. He won the Collier Trophy, in 1947{{cite web|url=https://naa.aero/awards/awards-and-trophies/collier-trophy/collier-1940-1949-winners|title=Collier 1940-1949 Recipients - NAA: National Aeronautic Association|publisher=naa.aero|accessdate=2015-10-28}} and 1951.{{cite web|url=https://naa.aero/awards/awards-and-trophies/collier-trophy/collier-1950-1959-winners|title=Collier 1950-1959 Recipients - NAA: National Aeronautic Association|publisher=naa.aero|accessdate=2015-10-28}}
Life
Stack was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked at Langley Research Center from 1928 to 1962, and Republic Aircraft Corporation, from 1962 to 1971. He died in 1972.{{cite book|author=John David Anderson|title=A History of Aerodynamics: And Its Impact on Flying Machines|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OeCJFJY3ZYC&pg=PA394|year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-66955-9|pages=394–}}
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He worked on transonic flight. He was part of the Bell X-1 team. He worked with the Variable Density Tunnel, on compressible airflow.
Works
- The Compressibility Factor National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1935
- [http://naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk/report.php?NID=1168 The Compressibility Burble] National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1935
- John Stack, Albert E Von Doenhoff, [http://naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk/report.php?NID=1214 Tests of 16 related airfoils at high speed], NACA-report-492, 1935
- John Stack, W. F. Lindsey, Tests of N-85, N-86, and N-87 Airfoil Sections in the 11-inch High-speed Wind Tunnel, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1938
References
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External links
- {{cite web|url=http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/John_Stack|title=John Stack - NasaCRgis|publisher=crgis.ndc.nasa.gov|accessdate=2015-10-28}}
- {{cite web|url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4219/Chapter3.html|title=Research in Supersonic Flight and the Breaking of the Sound Barrier|author=John D. Anderson, Jr.|publisher=history.nasa.gov|accessdate=2015-10-28}}
- {{cite web|url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4305/ch10.htm|title=ch10|publisher=history.nasa.gov|accessdate=2015-10-28}}
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Category:Collier Trophy recipients
Category:People from Lowell, Massachusetts
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
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