Box 2
Container
Contains 8 Collections and/or Records:
Paul E. Stanley papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 50
Scope and Contents
The Paul E. Stanley papers document the earliest years of the School of Aeronautics and the planning that went into creating the school. Other material among the papers pertain to the early years of the Purdue Airport and Division of Engineering Sciences. Neil Armstrong was a student of Stanley's, and there are clippings, front pages of newspapers, reports, an invitation sent by Armstrong to Stanley for his homecoming celebrating in Wapakoneta, Ohio, along with other pre and post-Apollo 11...
Dates:
1909 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1947 - 1969
School of Aeronautics reports and records, 1945 - 1972
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 50, Series 1
Scope and Contents
This series contains some of the initial planning documents for the Schools of Aeronautics and Engineering Sciences. Within this series are School of Aeronautics annual reports for 1947-1949, compiled by then Head, E. F. Bruhn. "Preliminary Report of the Advanced Planning Committee of the Division of Engineering Sciences, Purdue University," December 1959; "Aeronautical Engineering, abstracted from the History of Aeronautical Engineering at Purdue University, by Professor H. B. Knoll," June...
Dates:
1945 - 1972
Air Transportation, 1945 - 1972
Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: MSF 50, Series 1, Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents
Includes information related to the Air Transportation program; journals containing articles about the program, brochures, curriculum information and programs from conferences. Also includes an "Aviation at Purdue" brochure which contains historical information.
Dates:
1945 - 1972
Air Transportation, 1945 - 1949
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSF 50, Series 1, Sub-Series 2, File 1
Scope and Contents
Folder one of three, includes journals containing articles about Purdue's Air Transportation program, brochures and information about the Air Transportation curriculum, and programs from conferences.
Dates:
1945 - 1949
Air Transportation correspondence, 1945 - 1949
File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSF 50, Series 1, Sub-Series 2, File 2
Scope and Contents
The correspondence is related to the Second Annual Air Transportation Conference, and an "Aviation at Purdue" brochure (folder two of three, brochure contains historical information on the general plans of Purdue University for aeronautical engineering and aviation education in the post-war period and gives information on the aviation facilities at Purdue, pre and post-war expansion).
Dates:
1945 - 1949
School of Aeronautical Engineering, Air Transportation Division, Field Trip to Chicago, Illinois, by H.M. DeGroff, November 29-30, 1955
File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSF 50, Series 1, Sub-Series 2, File 3
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Includes information related to the Air Transportation program; journals containing articles about the program, brochures, curriculum information and programs from conferences. Also includes an "Aviation at Purdue" brochure which contains historical information.
Dates:
November 29-30, 1955
Air Transportation, 1968 - 1972
File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSF 50, Series 1, Sub-Series 2, File 4
Scope and Contents
Includes various documents related to air transportation, including; AIAA paper, "Establishment of a Center for Research and Development in Aviation Education/Training," by Victor E. Rothe, Arizona State, 1969; a "Summary of Aircraft Control Systems Research and Development at Purdue University," and "Aerospace Curricula in Transition, School of Aeronautics, Astronautics, and Engineering Science, Purdue University," by Dr. Robert L. Swaim (folder three of three).
Dates:
1968 - 1972
Proceedings of the Air Transportation Conference, Purdue University, sponsored by the School of Aeronautics, the Division of Education and Applied Psychology and the Technical Extension Division, May 5-6, 1948
File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSF 50, Series 2, Sub-Series 2, File 5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Includes information related to the Air Transportation program; journals containing articles about the program, brochures, curriculum information and programs from conferences. Also includes an "Aviation at Purdue" brochure which contains historical information.
Dates:
May 5-6, 1948