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NEW YORK, January 15, 2009 – A US Airways pilot ditched his disabled jetliner into the frigid Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after a collision with a flock of birds apparently knocked out both engines, but rescuers pulled all 155 people on board into boats as the plane sank, authorities say....(excerpted from an Associated Press story ) .
For much of the past decade, Professor Edwin Herricks has laid the foundation for a tool that may address one of the oldest problems facing aviation today,...
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Robert H. Liebeck (BS 1961, MS 1962, PhD 1968, Aerospace Engineering) attained world recognition for his novel designs of high-lift airfoils, referred to by the aeronautics community as the "Liebeck airfoils." He is co-developer of the... more