Aircraft Engine Laboratory, planning documents, budget, floor plans, curriculum plans/charts, and related documents , 1941 - 1947

File — Box: 9, Folder: 4

Identifier: MSF 50, Series 7, File 4

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series is comprised of plans for the expansion of the Purdue Airport and Aeronautics labs to accommodate the new and growing School of Aeronautics. One can find the reports; "A Program for Training Aviation Mechanics at Purdue University," 1939 (includes photographs of Engineering Shops and Michael Golden Labs), and "Improvement of Facilities for Instruction in Aeronautical Engineering," by K. D. Wood and Joseph Liston, June 3, 1940 (includes blueprints); various floor plans, and related documentation. Other reports include, "Survey of Possible Wind Tunnel Requirements for School of Aeronautics, Purdue University," 1941-1947, and Aircraft Engine Laboratory, planning documents, budget, floor plans, curriculum plans/charts, and related documents, 1941-1947. There is also an initial "Aviation at Purdue," brochure, 1945 (includes edited text and inserts), and a School of Aeronautics Annual Report to the President, Purdue University, 1951-1952, to back-up plans for expansion, along with the resulting, "Specification for Complete Construction, Aeronautical Engineering Laboratory, Purdue University Airport, Walter Scholer and Associates, Architects, Lafayette, Indiana," circa 1959-1960.

The documents were originally in four manila envelopes marked, "sketches and floor plans," and were arranged as found in, hence the organization of four pairs of "folder 1 of 1, 2 of 2." The last two folders have been placed in a flat archival box to accommodate the larger floor plans, sketches and blueprints.