George Rodney, a retired Central Florida Aerospace Engineer and Test Pilot who became NASA`s first safety chief after the Challenger accident, died Saturday, 5 Oct 1996. He was 75. Rodney, a Carnegie Institute of Technology mechanical engineer with an Aero option won his Army Air Corps wings at Liberal, Kansas during WW2. He started his aerospace career in Baltimore with Glenn L. Martin Co. in 1945 as an aerodynamicist and was soon talked into becoming a Test Pilot. George became one of Martin`s most skilled and famous Test Pilots and in 41 years figured prominently in engineering, test and quality control on most of Martin`s major programs. His favorite was the P-6 Seamaster Jet seaplane. George put on a P-6 demonstration for Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Arleigh BURKE and his guest First Sea Lord Earl MOUNTBATTEN at Middle River on the Chesapeke Bay in1954.
When Glenn Luther MARTIN died in 1955, George was honored with the task of flying MARTIN`s body in the company 204 aircraft from Baltimore to Los Angeles for buriel at the family plot in Santa Ana, CA. As the aircraft passed over Glenn`s Kansas birth place, George dipped a wing.
George was drafted by NASA in 1986 to become its Safety Czar.(NASA DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR for SAFETY and QUALITY)
When Glenn Luther MARTIN died in 1955, George was honored with the task of flying MARTIN`s body in the company 204 aircraft from Baltimore to Los Angeles for buriel at the family plot in Santa Ana, CA. As the aircraft passed over Glenn`s Kansas birth place, George dipped a wing.
George was drafted by NASA in 1986 to become its Safety Czar.(NASA DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR for SAFETY and QUALITY)
George Rodney, a retired Central Florida Aerospace Engineer and Test Pilot who became NASA`s first safety chief after the Challenger accident, died Saturday, 5 Oct 1996. He was 75. Rodney, a Carnegie Institute of Technology mechanical engineer with an Aero option won his Army Air Corps wings at Liberal, Kansas during WW2. He started his aerospace career in Baltimore with Glenn L. Martin Co. in 1945 as an aerodynamicist and was soon talked into becoming a Test Pilot. George became one of Martin`s most skilled and famous Test Pilots and in 41 years figured prominently in engineering, test and quality control on most of Martin`s major programs. His favorite was the P-6 Seamaster Jet seaplane. George put on a P-6 demonstration for Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Arleigh BURKE and his guest First Sea Lord Earl MOUNTBATTEN at Middle River on the Chesapeke Bay in1954.
When Glenn Luther MARTIN died in 1955, George was honored with the task of flying MARTIN`s body in the company 204 aircraft from Baltimore to Los Angeles for buriel at the family plot in Santa Ana, CA. As the aircraft passed over Glenn`s Kansas birth place, George dipped a wing.
George was drafted by NASA in 1986 to become its Safety Czar.(NASA DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR for SAFETY and QUALITY)
When Glenn Luther MARTIN died in 1955, George was honored with the task of flying MARTIN`s body in the company 204 aircraft from Baltimore to Los Angeles for buriel at the family plot in Santa Ana, CA. As the aircraft passed over Glenn`s Kansas birth place, George dipped a wing.
George was drafted by NASA in 1986 to become its Safety Czar.(NASA DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR for SAFETY and QUALITY)
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