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Rob Ransone, an aeronautical engineer from Texas A&M, flight tested some unusual aircraft as a project flight test engineer during his eleven years at the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, California, and later as Development Engineer, VSTOL Technology for American Airlines in New York City. As a commissioned officer at Edwards he flew 106 hours of performance and stability & control flight tests of the YB-58A Mach 2 bomber, and tested the NC-130 Boundary Layer Control aircraft and the YH-41 helicopter. As a civilian, he was Chief Flight Test Engineer for the Tri-Service fight tests of the XC-142A tilt-wings transport and the X-19. As a recognized VSTOL technology expert, he was the DoD’s flight test expert on its 13-person team that evaluated West Germany’s ability to develop VSTOL aircraft in 1964. In 1968 he left the Flight Test to study VSTOL aircraft for American Airlines in New York City as a means of relieving air traffic congestion in the Northeast Corridor. For American Airlines he evaluated several STOL aircraft concepts, and tested the French Breguet 941/MacDonnell MDC-188 STOL transport. He defined STOL field length criteria, defined comprehensive STOL Airlines System Requirements, and evaluated the feasibility of a floating STOLport in the Hudson River to serve Manhattan Island. He was recognized by all US airlines, aircraft and engine manufacturers as the US leader in VSTOL technology. His work with a citizens protest group was documented in the display Confrontation of Technology with Society at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. His Society of Automotive Engineers paper, "Chelsea STOLport The Airline View," documenting the floating STOLport controversy, was published in the prestigious SAE Transactions For 1976 for its “high quality, lasting value, and contribution to the art.” Only 10% of SAE papers presented each year are awarded that honor.
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