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Joseph R. Chambers is an aviation
consultant who lives in Yorktown, Virginia. He
retired from the NASA Langley Research Center in
1998 after a 36-year career as a researcher and
manager of military and civil aeronautics research
activities. He began his career as a specialist
in flight dynamics as a member of the staff of
the Langley 30- by 60-Foot (Full-Scale) Tunnel,
where he conducted research on a variety of aerospace
vehicles including V/STOL configurations, reentry
vehicles, and fighter aircraft configurations.
He later became a manager of research projects
in the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel, the Langley 20-Foot
Vertical Spin Tunnel, flight research at Langley,
and piloted simulators. When he retired from NASA,
he was manager of a group responsible for conducting
systems analysis of the potential payoffs of advanced
aircraft concepts and NASA research investments.
Mr. Chambers is the author
of over 50 technical reports and publications,
including NASA Special Publication SP-514 on the
subject of airflow condensation patterns for aircraft,
and NASA Special Publication SP-2000-4519 on contributions
of the Langley Research Center to U.S. military
aircraft of the 1990s. He has made presentations
on research and development programs to audiences
as diverse as the Von Karman Institute in Belgium
and the annual Experimental Aircraft Association
(EAA) Fly-In at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He has served
as a representative of the United States on international
committees and has given lectures in Japan, China,
Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, France,
Germany, and Sweden.
Mr. Chambers received several
of NASA’s highest awards, including the Exceptional
Service Medal and the Outstanding Leadership Medal.
He also received the Arthur Flemming Award in 1975
as one of the 10 Most Outstanding Civil Servants
for his management of NASA stall/spin research
for military and civil aircraft. He has a bachelor
of science degree from the Georgia Institute of
Technology (Georgia Tech), Atlanta, Georgia, and
a master of science degree from the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University (Virginia Tech),
Blacksburg, Virginia.
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