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SEP 01, 1948

DOI: 10.1063/1.3066139

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Herbert H. Hoover, research pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, received the Octave Chanute award for 1948 from the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences for “his contributions to the application of flight test procedures to basic research in aerodynamics, and development of methods for scientific study of transonic flight.”

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Volume 1, Number 5

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