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R.T. Jones dead at 89.

Staff August 16, 1999
R.T. JONES, a pioneer of swept-back wing designs, died last Wednesday at his home in Los Altos Hills, Calif. He was 89. A senior scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, Jones developed the swept-wing theory in 1944, for which he was awarded the Sylvanus Albert Reed Award in 1946. At Ames he...

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