George S. Schairer

George Sorg Schairer ( born May 19, 1913 in Wilkinsburg, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, † 28 October 2004 in Kirkland, Washington ) was an aerodynamics expert at Boeing.

His father, Otto Sorg Schairer (* 1879 in Saline (Michigan), † 1976) was a founder of KDKA and a TV pioneer.

Schairer attended Swarthmore College and studied at MIT, where he invented Schairer 's Airplane Performance Slide Rule and his master with a test of four helicopter rotors acquired in the wind tunnel. He started at the Bendix Corporation and later moved to the Consolidated Aircraft, where he designed the wing and tail surface of the Consolidated B -24. He then moved to Boeing, where he worked on the B- 17, B -29, B -377 Stratocruiser, C -97 Stratofreighter, B -47, B -50, B -52 Stratofortress, KC -135, 707 and 727.

1944/45, he was a member of the U.S. Army Air Force Scientific Advisory Group under the direction of Theodore von Kármán and Hugh Latimer Dryden. During this time he began to be interested in swept wings. At the end of the war he was one of a group of scientists who searched German research institutions. The test results, which he found confirmed the usefulness of the sweep, reduced the shock waves when approaching the speed of sound. After his return he built at Boeing flyer such as the Boeing B -47 with up to 35 ° sweep.

From 1959 to 1973 he was vice president of research and development department. In 1978, he went into retirement. He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Defense Intelligence Agency. In 1957, he received the Daniel Guggenheim Medal.

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