The Bureau of Aeronautics (BuAer) was the U.S. Navy's material-support organization for naval aviation from 1921 to 1959. The bureau had "cognizance" (i...
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of Transportation (2007). "A Citizen's Guide to MDOT" (PDF). Michigan Department of Transportation. Retrieved August 22, 2008. Bureau of Aeronautics....
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John S. McCain Sr. (category Honorary Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
air operations in support of the Guadalcanal campaign. He served as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics and Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air. In...
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Ernest J. King (category Recipients of the Order of Naval Merit (Brazil))
aviator in 1927, and was captain of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington. He then served as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. Following a period on the Navy's...
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purpose of the executive order was to accelerate the development of the civil aviation in the Philippines; it also resulted into the Bureau of Aeronautics taking...
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development, design and research for projects. NJDOT's Bureau of Aeronautics has general oversight of public use airports and restricted use facilities, including...
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Martin PBM Mariner (category World War II patrol aircraft of the United States)
The Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, 1944. Martin PBM-5 1947 Navy Model Pilot's Handbook (AN 01-35ED-1). Washington, D.C.: The Bureau of Aeronautics...
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had little association with the Cougar by the end of the project. The U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics placed order for two prototypes, initially designated...
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to jurisdiction; the Bureau of Aeronautics' work on unmanned aircraft, for example, overlapped to some degree with the Bureau of Ordnance's work on guided...
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William A. Moffett (category Battle of Veracruz (1914) recipients of the Medal of Honor)
Moffett. Biography portal List of Medal of Honor recipients (Veracruz) Bureau of Aeronautics Naval aviation U.S. Occupation of Veracruz, Mexico, 1914 Quirk...
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John Henry Towers (category Members of the Early Birds of Aviation)
organizational development of naval aviation from its beginnings, eventually serving as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics (1939–1942). He commanded carrier...
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John Glenn (category Recipients of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor)
series of physical and psychological tests began at the Lovelace Clinic and the Wright Aerospace Medical Laboratory. Because of his Bureau of Aeronautics job...
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It was designed in response to a 1957 requirement issued by the Bureau of Aeronautics for an all-weather attack aircraft for Navy long-range interdiction...
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for Aeronautics (NACA) was a United States federal agency that was founded on March 3, 1915, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research...
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Robert E. Dixon (category Recipients of the Legion of Merit)
as commanding officer of the USS Valley Forge from January to June 1953; and (3) for services as Chief, Bureau of Aeronautics from July 1957 to November...
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development of aerial weapons. This often led to friction with the Bureau of Aeronautics (BuAer), which had responsibility for the development of Naval aircraft...
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WAVES (section Creation of the program)
benefits of their male counterparts. Opposition delayed the passage of the bill until May 1942. At the same time, the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics felt...
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of pilots, certification of aircraft and investigation of accidents. In 1934, the Aeronautics Branch was renamed the Bureau of Air Commerce, to reflect...
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World War II and American animation (category History of animation in the United States)
Disney produced Four Methods of Flush Riveting for Lockheed Martin's engineers. The Army Air Force, Navy, and Bureau of Aeronautics also commissioned and supervised...
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to procure a pair of new, purpose-built airships, which originated in a set of design studies undertaken by the Bureau of Aeronautics in 1924 as BuAer...
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Aircraft" was the first issue in the Aerology Series produced by the Bureau of Aeronautics Training Division, Navy Department, Washington D.C. The issue does...
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Arthur W. Radford (category Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)
ships and in the Bureau of Aeronautics. After the U.S. entered World War II, he was the architect of the development and expansion of the Navy's aviator...
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Norman Kleiss (category United States Navy bomber pilots of World War II)
of Structures Branch, Bureau of Aeronautics, under command of Rear Admiral Melville Pride. When Pride retired in May 1947, Kleiss became the Head of Structures...
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total of 12 were produced for the United States Marine Corps. And in 1954, the Hiller Helicopters was selected by the US Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics to...
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jet research aircraft of the 1940s. It was designed in 1945 by the Douglas Aircraft Company for the U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, in conjunction with...
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Naval Air Station Patuxent River (category History of aviation)
of American involvement in World War II spurred establishment of the new air station. Rear Admiral John Henry Towers, Chief of Bureau of Aeronautics,...
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The Act merged the Bureau of Aeronautics (BuAer), which had responsibility for naval aircraft and related systems, and the Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd),...
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Alfred M. Pride (category Recipients of the Legion of Merit)
He served during the late 1940s as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics and during the Korean War as Commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet. Pride's career was...
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Norden bombsight (category World War II military equipment of the United States)
square outlined on the ground. Another change of management within the Bureau of Aeronautics had the effect of making the U.S. Navy more friendly to British...
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J-class blimp (category Airships of the United States Navy)
The J-class blimps were non-rigid airships designed by the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in the early 1920s for the US...
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