John D. Anderson, Jr.

Curator for Aerodynamics, Division of Aeronautics

National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
NASM 3312 MRC 312
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

Email: andersonja at si.edu

Research Interests

History of Aerodynamics, History of Aeronautical Engineering. History of the Airplane.


Current Research Projects

Study of the intellectual evolution of the methodology of airplane design during the Twentieth Century, using some of the "Grand Designers" as case histories.


Recent Publications

"Inventing Flight", Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004; "The Airplane: A History of Its Technology", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2003, Introduction to Flight, 5th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2005, Modern Compressible Flow,3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2003.


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