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Cornell Alumni News Volume 48, Number 11 January 15,1 946 Price 20 Cents Ficklin Hotels as fine as any you have ever seen anywhere, sun-drenched beaches, PLUS the color of Latin America . This is RIO DE JANEIRO . This is the place you can GO TO NOW for a two weeks' vacation by Clipper. Every day was as glorious as this! l (above) "Tom and I arrived in Rio just as daylight was break- ing—right on time. After break- fast we drove up to Vista Chinesa and looked out over that won- derful city . Here we were, hundreds of feet above sea level but it was quite warm and we were ςlad we had a swim sched- uled for . r 2. (right) " 11 A.M. at the world- famous beach called Copaca- bana. The white surf rolled in from the Atlantic. And the sun was so hot it didn't seem pos- sible that there was snow in Buffalo, New York. We just loved it! But we had a date for lunch up at Petropolis, so . ." N THE SWIFT, sure wings of a Pan American Clipper, Rio de Ja- neiro is now just a week end away from the United States! And in Rio, it's summer! For Rio lies South of the Equator and it's bathed in sunshine. See your Travel Agent or the near- est Pan American office for rates and schedules not only to Rio but also to anywhere else in Latin America, Ber- muda, the British Isles, Europe, Af- 3. "We drove up to the Hotel Quitan- 4. "At night we danced the samba rica, Alaska or Hawaii. dinha — one of the most magnificent to that Latin American music that brand-new hotels you ever saw! The really sends you. The more we saw New, 4-engined Quitandinha has its own swimming of the Quitandinha the more amazed Clippers now pool, golf course, riding stables, ca- we were . We'd had a glorious being readied sino—yes, even its own theatre, bigger day and we had ten more just like than the Metropolitan Opera House!" it before we came back rested." PAN AMERKΆN WORLD Sysfem o f/fflers FIRST across the Pacific (1935) FIRST across the Atlantic (Ί939) Volume 48, Number 11 January 15, 1946 Price, 20 Cents CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Subscription price $4 a year. Entered as second-class matter, Ithaca, N.Y. Published the first and fifteenth of every month. inson Aviation, Inc., of which Cecil Aeronautics Graduate School S. Robinson '21 is president, for the company's commercial flights in and out of Ithaca, and the University will Gets Curtiss-Wright Laboratory erect a hangar and engine laboratory IFT to the University of the specialized training in aeronautical on the site. This development, Dean G Curtiss-Wright Corp. Aeronau- engineering." Hollister says, will afford opportunity tical Research Laboratory at Buffalo, for the Graduate School of Aeronau- effective January 1, provides facilities New Airport in Ithaca tics to coordinate its work with actual for the new Graduate School of Aero- In addition to the facilities to be flight operations. nautical Engineering which are un- offered at the former Curtiss-Wright The Curtiss-Wright Research Labo- matched at any other university, ac- Research Laboratory in Buffalo, the ratory at Buffalo, now to be operated cording to Dean S. C. Hollister of the Graduate School of Aeronautical En- by the University, contains virtually College of Engineering. Nowhere ex- gineering will have use of a new air- every scientific and testing device cept in government laboratories are port to be built about three miles known to aeronautical research. It is to be found such complete and in- northeast of the Campus. A^site ap- a modern two-story brick structure of tegrated facilities for aeronautical proximately a mile square east of approximately 90,000 square feet of research and engineering training, Warren Road and about one mile floor space on a thirteen-acre plot Dean Hollister says. north of Hanshaw Road, above the adjoining the Buffalo Municipal Air- The Graduate School of Aeronau- Campus, will be developed as a mod- port. Designed specifically for re- tical Engineering was established by ern airport for commercial air service search and development of aircraft of the University Trustees November 1, to Ithaca and the University, and will the future, it was planned for flexibil- as a division of the College of Engi- also give the new School facilities for ity of equipment and working space neering. Students will be admitted flight research and testing. A 2900-foot to meet the needs of changing pro- who have a Bachelor's degree in an runway and flight operations building grams. appropriate branch of engineering, will be built there this spring by Rob- Opened in February, 1943, the beginning next fall. The School will provide instruction and opportunity for research in all phases of aero- dynamics, design of aircraft structures and power plants, mechanics of flight, materials, and aeronautical equip- ment. Alumni Consulted In planning the School, Dean Hol- lister consulted many Cornellians and others who are leading figures in avia- tion; such men as J. Carlton Ward, Jr. ;14, president of Fair child Engine & Airplane Corp. and member of the University's Engineering College Council; Leroy R. Grumman '16, president, and Leon A. Swirbul '20, vice-president and general manager, of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp.; University Trustee Victor Emanuel '19, chairman of Aviation Corp.; and William Littlewood '20, vice-president of American Airlines in charge of engineering and member of the National Advisory Committee for AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY TO BE RUN BY CORNELL Aeronautics. Describing the funda- Curtiss-Wright Corp. Airplane Division gives this completely equipped laboratory in mental purpose of the School, Dean Buffalo to become a part of the Graduate School of Aeronautics. Large convoluted struc- Hollister says: "It is our conviction, ture at rear is the huge wind-tunnel for testing model planes, one of which is seen mounte d based upon the experience of many of in the cutaway working section in center of picture. Two openings at rear of tunnel go into its cooling tower, and at right are the 14,000 horsepower motors that drive the huge our graduates who have risen to high fans. From left in front of tunnel are the area for preparation of models for testing, with positions in the aviation industry and model building shop in cutaway below; control room for tunnel; and computing room upon the opinion of many other prom- with punched-card equipment for recording and tabulating test data. Cylindrical con- inent engineers in it, that the need of struction in right center is the altitude chamber for studying effects of high-altitude pres- sures and temperatures; behind it, the metal processes laboratory and at its left, the aeronautical engineers of the future is electrical equipment laboratory. Large area at right is for static tests of planes and parts, for a broad, fundamental engineering with materials-testing laboratory at front of building. Detached structure at rear is the training to which is added advanced fuels laboratory. Several other research and experimental divisions are not shown. building contains a wind-tunnel with combined record of scholarship and train aeronautical engineers in the working section eight and one-half by athletics. After teaching mathematics surroundings and through the use of twelve feet, where model airplanes and coaching track at Shattuck Mili- facilities which are involved in the can be tested under wind velocities tary Academy in Minnesota, he did front-line problems of aeronautics. up to 740 miles an hour and pressures research on blast furnaces for US Our students will have the background from one-fourth to four atmospheres; Steel Corp. at Gary, Ind.; went to to contribute greatly in aeronautical fans driven by two motors of 14,000 University of Michigan and received research, design of airplanes and horsepower. It has also three smaller the PhD in 1926; then for five years equipment, and all other phases of wind-tunnels where air is driven faster was a physical chemist for the US aeronautical engineering. The Univer- than the speed of sound, which can be Bureau of Mines in Minneapolis, sity has great opportunity to make rigged as required for specific tests; an Minn. For ten years from 1931, he outstanding contributions, not only in altitude chamber thirty-four feet long was associate professor of chemical research, but in preparing men further and ten feet in diameter, with oxygen engineering at Yale, and in 1941 and to develop this great professional field equipment for twelve persons and 1942, he organized and supervised de- of aeronautical engineering." where pressures and temperatures fense research for the National De- simulating those up to 80,000 feet fense Research Committee before he War Casualties Mount are automatically controlled, with joined Curtiss-Wright as director of ALUMNI NEWS "Necrology" de- lowest temperature 85 below zero and research in September, 1942. Purdue "£*• partment has thus far reported observation and control devices for awarded him the honorary Doctor of the deaths of 301 Cornellians in the studying effects of high altitude on Engineering last October 28. armed forces during World War II, both equipment and personnel; a To Aid Entire Industry including seven pre-Pearl Harbor shop and preparation area for con- training accidents. Some sixty other structing models for testing; well- Under the University's operation, the Laboratory will be made avail- alumni are still listed as prisoners of equipped laboratories for studying war or missing in action. In the first materials, metal processes, fuels, elec- able to the entire aircraft industry, thus contributing to both military world war, 264 Cornellians lost their trical equipment, static tests of air- lives in service.