TomCassuttGrandson
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Hello!
My name is Justin Lemon. Tom Cassutt is my Grandfather. He was a self-taught autodidact Aeronautical Engineer, TWA Pilot, as well a midget pylon racing plane designer/builder/pilot.
I am currently going through his GIANT meticulously detailed archive of his personal Aviation Library of Books, files, documents, designs, historical articles, etc. b/c there is a WEALTH of relevant and extremely useful knowledge & information pertaining to Aeronautical Engineering, Airplane Design, Physics, amd Formula 1 Pylon Racing.
Because Tom was self-taught, he relied on available resources such as M.I.T. Grad-School level textbooks on Airplane Design & Aerodynamics, those which he started memorizing by the age of 11. So in the 1930's, he started consolidating the most useful Physics/Calculus/Math Formulas that are most relevant and effective towards airplane design and aerodynamics; Formulas he always found himself utilizing & referring to throughout his years as a premier airplane designer. These are formulas that I constantly see all throughout his personal files and archives. When I first came across copies of it in a different folder, I didn't understand the relevance & importance. Now after all the time researching and exploring his files, I understand exactly what it is. He used them as a KEY Quick Reference Guide to use during his time in the U.S
Army Air Corp. Cadet Training, his time as a World War 2 Air Transport Command Pilot "Flying the Hump" in the China-India-Burma Theatre, during his 25yrs as a Senior Pilot & Engineering Technical Advisor to TWA & Howard Hughes, and also during all his years designing, building, and racing midget pylon racing planes.
The following 6 pages are from Tom's personal aviation archives & were found grouped w/ his original Cassutt Special 111M Design Files from 1956.
Tom Cassutt's DEVELOPMENT of USEFUL PHYSICS FORMULAS (KEY QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE)
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My name is Justin Lemon. Tom Cassutt is my Grandfather. He was a self-taught autodidact Aeronautical Engineer, TWA Pilot, as well a midget pylon racing plane designer/builder/pilot.
I am currently going through his GIANT meticulously detailed archive of his personal Aviation Library of Books, files, documents, designs, historical articles, etc. b/c there is a WEALTH of relevant and extremely useful knowledge & information pertaining to Aeronautical Engineering, Airplane Design, Physics, amd Formula 1 Pylon Racing.
Because Tom was self-taught, he relied on available resources such as M.I.T. Grad-School level textbooks on Airplane Design & Aerodynamics, those which he started memorizing by the age of 11. So in the 1930's, he started consolidating the most useful Physics/Calculus/Math Formulas that are most relevant and effective towards airplane design and aerodynamics; Formulas he always found himself utilizing & referring to throughout his years as a premier airplane designer. These are formulas that I constantly see all throughout his personal files and archives. When I first came across copies of it in a different folder, I didn't understand the relevance & importance. Now after all the time researching and exploring his files, I understand exactly what it is. He used them as a KEY Quick Reference Guide to use during his time in the U.S
Army Air Corp. Cadet Training, his time as a World War 2 Air Transport Command Pilot "Flying the Hump" in the China-India-Burma Theatre, during his 25yrs as a Senior Pilot & Engineering Technical Advisor to TWA & Howard Hughes, and also during all his years designing, building, and racing midget pylon racing planes.
The following 6 pages are from Tom's personal aviation archives & were found grouped w/ his original Cassutt Special 111M Design Files from 1956.
Tom Cassutt's DEVELOPMENT of USEFUL PHYSICS FORMULAS (KEY QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE)
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