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|File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|1977: Signed illustration of space pilot and alleged time-traveller [[Henrietta Bolt]] sells for seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
|File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|1977: Signed illustration of space pilot and alleged time-traveller [[Henrietta Bolt]] sells for seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.


||1983: Felix Bloch dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1983: Felix Bloch dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1984: Jerome C. Hunsaker dies ... aeronautical engineer who made major innovations in the design of aircraft and lighter-than-air ships, seaplanes, and carrier-based aircraft. His career had spanned the entire existence of the aerospace industry, from the very beginnings of aeronautics to exploration of the solar system. He received his master's degree in naval architecture from M.I.T. in 1912. At about the same time seeing a flight by Bleriot around Boston harbour attracted him to the fledgling field of aeronautics. By 1916, he became MIT's first Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering. He designed the NC (Navy Curtiss) flying boat with the capability of crossing the Atlantic. It was the largest aircraft in the world at the time, with four engines and a crew of six. Pic.
||1984: Jerome C. Hunsaker dies ... aeronautical engineer who made major innovations in the design of aircraft and lighter-than-air ships, seaplanes, and carrier-based aircraft. His career had spanned the entire existence of the aerospace industry, from the very beginnings of aeronautics to exploration of the solar system. He received his master's degree in naval architecture from M.I.T. in 1912. At about the same time seeing a flight by Bleriot around Boston harbour attracted him to the fledgling field of aeronautics. By 1916, he became MIT's first Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering. He designed the NC (Navy Curtiss) flying boat with the capability of crossing the Atlantic. It was the largest aircraft in the world at the time, with four engines and a crew of six. Pic.

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