
Adolf Busemann, the German aerodynamicist who first expressed the advantages of wing sweep in a 1935 theoretical paper, came to work at Langley in May 1947 as a result of Operation Paperclip. Photograph published in Engineer in Charge: A History of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917-1958 by James R. Hansen. Page 283.
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LRC-1960-B701_P-05265
Date Created
August 20, 1960
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Photographer
NASA
Location
NASA Langley Research Center
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