Box 8
Container
Contains 2 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
Clippings and newspapers, 1913 - 1972
Series — Box: 8
Identifier: MSF 50, Series 6
Scope and Contents
In this series one can find a collection of clippings of planes and pilots dating from 1913-1972. There is also a collection of front page news stories from the Apollo 11 moon landing, with newspapers dated July 14-25, 1969. For preservation purposes, a few miscellaneous items have been added to this oversized box; a poster, Greater Rockford, "Rockford to Stockholm," Pilot B. R. J. "Fish" Hassell, departed Rockford, Illinois, August 19, 1928, arrived Rockford, May 13, 1969 (signed by pilot) and...
Dates:
1913 - 1972