Michael Goldberg has joined Bain & Co. in its Los Angeles office. He was a managing partner of Deloitte Consulting's Los Angeles office, specializing in aerospace and defense companies.
DEFENSE MARKET WIDENS Private companies are now allowed to move into assembly of frontline defense equipment. Nelco, a Tata company, has become the first to be permitted to assemble ground sensors in India under technology transfer from Israel. The army has a big demand for sensors planned for the 770-km. (478-mi.) Line of Control in Kashmir and a further 198 km. with Pakistan in Jammu. Nelco will begin assembly this year. State-owned Bharat Electronics has won the contract for assembly of French handheld thermal, as well as battlefield surveillance, radars.
I read with interest Ronald H. Barnard's letter advocating resurrection of the Saturn 5 (AW&ST Nov. 24, 2003, p. 6). Presumably, he also would be in favor of re-opening the production lines for the Douglas Dakota and North American Mustang, both of which were also effective pieces of technology in their time.
"Standoff" 15" x 20" David Flynt, Seattle, Wash. The mission of Gemini IX astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan in June 1966 was to rendezvous and dock with the previously launched Augmented Target Docking Adaptor (ATDA). Although Stafford and Cernan achieved rendezvous, docking proved impossible; a failed shroud separation had left the ATDA looking like an "angry alligator."
JOE M. JACKSON LIEUTENANT COLONEL, U.S. AIR FORCE 311th Air Commando Squadron JOE JACKSON ENLISTED IN THE ARMY AIR CORPS in 1941 because he wanted to be an airplane mechanic. He was made a flight engineer aboard a B-25; during a training flight, when one of the engines caught fire, it was Jackson who told the pilot what to do. Later, figuring that if he was going to have to give such advice, he might as well be a pilot himself, he went to flight school, became a fighter pilot, and spent the remainder of World War II as a gunnery instructor.
JAMES E. SWETT FIRST LIEUTENANT, U.S. MARINE CORPS Marine Fighting Squadron 221, Marine Aircraft Group 12, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing JAMES SWETT LEARNED TO FLY in junior college in San Mateo, California, and graduated from the Civilian Pilot Training Program just before Pearl Harbor with 450 hours in the air. He enlisted in the Navy and became an aviation cadet, but halfway through the program, one of his officers persuaded him to become a Marine Corps pilot.
THOMAS J. HUDNER, JR. LIEUTENANT JUNIOR GRADE, U.S. NAVY Fighter Squadron 32, USS Leyte THOMAS HUDNER HAD NO PARTICULAR INTEREST IN AIRPLANES when he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1946. He wanted only to serve aboard a ship. But in 1948, after he had been at sea for several months and had worked as a communications officer at Pearl Harbor for a year, he was ready for a new challenge and volunteered for flight training. He was briefly stationed in Lebanon before being assigned to the carrier USS Leyte as an F4U Corsair pilot.
ROBERT E. GALER MAJOR, U.S. MARINE CORPS Marine Fighter Squadron 244 WHEN HE WAS A BOY, Robert Galer's imagination had been so galvanized by Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic that when the commanding officer in his college Navy ROTC unit spoke to him about Marine Corps aviation, he eagerly joined up after his graduation in 1935.
Cohen's introduction to photography began in high school, and his studies continued into college where he majored in photojournalism. Cohen then became an assistant still photographer on a major motion picture set. He was appointed a staff photographer at Bell Helicopter Textron in July 1999, and continues to freelance for several news publications. His images have been published in numerous international periodicals, calendars and books. Cohen also is a charter member of the International Society of Aviation Photographers.
This is the 14th annual Aviation Week & Space Technology photo issue and our fourth to include aerospace paintings. In last year's photo issue, we ran rarely seen photographs and narrative of the Wright brothers' flying success at Kitty Hawk and their later achievements. Now, the celebration of 100 years of human flight is behind us.
HENRY R. ERWIN STAFF SERGEANT, U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS 52nd Bombardment Squadron, 29th Bombardment Group, 20th Air Force THE CREW OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES had completed eleven missions in the Pacific by the spring of 1945. At dawn on April 12, the B-29 took off from Iwo Jima as the lead bomber in the 52nd Bombardment Squadron's attack on Koriyama, Japan. Near the target, antiaircraft fire erupted from below and Japanese fighter planes swooped down from above.
NATHAN G. GORDON LIEUTENANT JUNIOR GRADE, U.S. NAVY Commander of Catalina patrol plane NATHAN GORDON HAD PRACTICED LAW FOR TWO YEARS when he decided to enlist in the Navy in 1941. He had always wanted to fly, and he figured that it would be more interesting to see the war he was sure the United States would become involved in from the air than on the ground.
PATRICK H. BRADY MAJOR, U.S. ARMY Medical Service Corps, 54th Medical Detachment, 67th Medical Group, 44th Medical Brigade PATRICK BRADY HATED HIS RESERVE OFFICERS TRAINING COURSE, which was mandatory at his college in the late 1950s, and eventually got booted out. But knowing that he'd eventually have to serve in the Army and figuring it would be better to be an officer than an enlisted man, he ultimately got back into ROTC. He was commissioned in the medical service corps after graduation.
