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John Stack (1906–1972) was an aerospace engineer. He won the Collier trophy, in 1947 and 1951.
Life
Stack was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked at Langley Research Center from 1928 to 1962, and Republic Aircraft Corporation, from 1962 to 1971. He died in 1972.
He worked on transonic flight. He was part of the Bell X-1 team. He worked with the Variable Density Tunnel, on compressible airflow.
Works
The Compressibility Factor National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1935
The Compressibility Burble National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1935
John Stack, Albert E Von Doenhoff, Tests of 16 related airfoils at high speed, NACA-report-492, 1935
John Stack, W. F. Lindsey, Tests of N-85, N-86, and N-87 Airfoil Sections in the 11-inch High-speed Wind Tunnel, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1938
References
External links
"John Stack - NasaCRgis". crgis.ndc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
John D. Anderson, Jr. "Research in Supersonic Flight and the Breaking of the Sound Barrier". history.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
"ch10". history.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2015-10-28.