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Narrator: Dr. Wayne Johnson is a rotorcraft
pioneer and visionary.
His legacy of rotorcraft research at NASA Ames
continues to be of fundamental importance to the
U.S. Army and to the international
rotorcraft community.
He was a key figure with the U.S. Army
Aeromechanics Laboratory at Ames and with the
Ames Aeromechanics Branch.
During his tenure, Ames became a world leader in
rotary wing technology.
Over four decades his contributions spanned
aeromechanical theory, computational codes,
design tools, and wind tunnel and flight-testing.
He wrote a series of detailed computer codes, most
notably CAMRAD-Two, used for comprehensive
analysis and N-D-A-R-C, which is used worldwide as
the primary design tool for rotorcraft.
He effectively devised a new area of research as a
result of coupling computational fluid dynamics of
rotors with their aeroelastic structural dynamics.
One of Dr. Johnson's key contributions to tilt-rotor
aircraft was the design of a
wing-pylon-rotor system to avoid whirl flutter.
This helped NASA Ames to validate the tilt rotor
concept and enabled the success of
the V-22 Osprey.
Dr. Johnson received many awards from the
U.S. Army, NASA, and aerospace
professional societies.
His theoretical work on the development of a
comprehensive analysis for rotorcraft earned him
the prestigious Ames H. Julian Allen Award.
He is a Fellow of the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics and won its 1986
Pendray Aerospace Literature Award for his
comprehensive and classic textbook
"Helicopter Theory".
To this day it remains widely used in industry and
academia.
He is a Fellow of the American Helicopter Society,
which awarded him its highest honor, the 2010
Alexander A. Nikolsky Honorary Lectureship for his
distinguished career in vertical flight research.
He infused the power of physics-based and
comprehensive analysis to the design of rotorcraft
like no other in his field.
No individual in the world has made a greater impact
on rotary wing technology than Dr. Wayne Johnson.
He truly exemplifies what it means
to be an Ames Fellow.
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