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define the program for a larger research effort in the future. Also, plans to modernize the IRT had been initiated. Finally, feasibility studies were underway for the design of a much larger icing tunnel with higher speeds and variable altitude capability; although, the eventual outcome of these studies to convert the AWT “will be highly dependent on budgetary restraints.”14 To manage the IRT, Beheim selected Harold Zager. Already a section head in Beheim’s Wind Tunnel and Flight Division, Zager’s responsibilities included the 8’ x 6’, 9’ x 15’, and 10’ x 10’ wind tunnels. But he had never before seen an icing tunnel. His first look at the facility was not encouraging. The IRT had been used rarely and was not being maintained. Fred Murray, an experienced mechanic, had been looking after the tunnel, but he had lacked the authority to get much done. The ceiling had rotted and had fallen down on the air exchange doors, which could not be moved. Zager told Beheim that he was not prepared to take responsibility for the IRT until repairs had been made so that it could be safely operated. It was “a good time” to make such a request, Zager recalled, and Beheim agreed to the necessary expenditures.15 Beheim, with the assistance of branch chief Roger Luidens, also recruited the first four researchers to staff the tunnel. To form the core group of researchers, Beheim used his power of “persuasion” on William A. Olsen, Jr., a talented experimentalist; Bernard J. Blaha, an accomplished wind tunnel research engineer; Peggy Evanich, an experienced aeronautical engineer who had worked for Lockheed before joining NASA; and Robert J. Shaw. Shaw’s experience was more-or-less typical of what happened. Shaw recalls that Beheim called him into the office shortly before the workshop concluded and asked him to become part of the icing research group that was being formed. There was no money at present, Beheim allowed, and the decision had been made to start out as a section rather than at the higher level of branch. (The section would become a branch in 1987.) Shaw, who was working on V-STOL inlets, was not exactly excited at the prospect of a transfer. Icing was not in the mainstream at Lewis. During the 1970s, however, one did not turn down “requests” by management. “You did what you were told,” Shaw com- mented. As it turned out, the transfer to icing research became “one of the best breaks of my career.” It was “a fascinating experience,” he recalled in 2001, and “the most fabulous ten years of my thirty-one-year career with NASA.”16 Beheim still had to find someone to head the section. Advertisements for the position produced a number of applicants. In the end, he opted for John J. Reinmann. This would prove a happy choice. After graduating from Case Institute with a B.S. (1954) and M.S. Industry in the IRT 14 Beheim, “Executive Summary of Aircraft Icing Specialists Workshop,” ibid., pp. 1–12. 15 Leary interview with Zager, 27 June 2001. 16 Leary interview with Robert J. Shaw, 26 June 2001. 73PDF Image | History of NASA Icing Research Tunnel
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