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Summary

Abstract:
Edward Henry Heinemann, (14 March 1908 – 26 November 1991) was a noted military aircraft designer for Douglas Aircraft.
Extent:
5 Cubic Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Edward Heinemann Personal Papers at the San Diego Air and Space Museum

Background

Scope and content:

The Edward Henry Heinemann Collection is contained in seven archival boxes collection measuring 16 ½ x 13 x 10 ¼ inches. The majority of this collection consists of business and corporate correspondence. There is also a box that contains index cards that correlate to the correspondence (in box 1), several speeches, personal correspondence, newspaper articles, periodicals, drawings and designs, seven oversized books of aircraft designs, and hundreds of photographs. The oversized books will be placed separate from the main collection due to the size of the books. The collection was previously distributed among fourteen smaller boxes by year and by topic. The collection has maintained the same order, but placed into larger boxes, and there are cardboard dividers labelling each section.

There is a CD in the first box containing JPEG images of the photographs.

The aircraft drawing designs are stored in three blue clamshell oversized boxes.

One oversized foreign magazine has been placed in the Oversized Material Special Collection, OMSC_00001.

Biographical / historical:

Edward Henry Heinemann began designed aircraft in 1926 as a draftsman with Douglas Aircraft Company. He moved to International Aircraft, and then to Moreland Aircraft as chief engineer. Heinemann took an active role in proving many of his concepts by being the test pilot on some of the aircraft he designed. In 1930 he joined Northrop Aircraft Corporation as project engineer, but it was as vice president for Military Engineering of the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1936 that he achieved his greatest design triumphs. In 1962 he became corporate president of Engineering with General Dynamics, a position he occupied until his retirement in 1973.

Heinemann was responsible either totally or in part for the design and development of more than 20 outstanding military aircraft. Just some of the aircraft include the SBD Dauntless dive bomber of World War II fame, of which 4982 were built; the A-20 and A-26 light bombers, of which over 8000 were built; the A-I Skyraider; the F4D Skyray; the supersonic research aircraft D-558 Skystreak; and his crowning achievement, the outstanding A-4D Skyhawk which is still current in the Navy’s operational arsenal and is in use worldwide.

In addition to aircraft designs, Heinemann and his staff were responsible for the development of a number of aircraft components and weapons such as ejection seats, cartridge ejector bomb racks, low-drag streamlined bombs, fuel tanks, autopilots, and flight data computers.

Edward Heinemann’s career was devoted to solving engineering problems in aeronautical science. A genius of the times, his intellect and creativity contributed greatly to the advance of world aero science.

Acquisition information:
The collection was donated to the San Diego Air and Space Museum
Physical facet:
The Edward Henry Heinemann Collection is contained in seven archival boxes collection measuring 16 ½ x 13 x 10 ¼ inches. There is a CD in the first box containing JPEG images of the photographs. The aircraft drawing designs are stored in three blue clamshell oversized boxes.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open to researchers by appointment.

Terms of access:

Some copyright may be reserved. Consult with the library director for more information.

Preferred citation:

Edward Heinemann Personal Papers at the San Diego Air and Space Museum

Location of this collection:
2001 Pan American Plaza, Balboa Park
San Diego, CA 92101, US
Contact:
(619) 234-8291
archives@sdasm.org
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