Metz, Henry I.

Henry I. Metz was an aviation radio engineer and federal aviation official during the twentieth century. A 1927 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Metz spent the early part of his professional career as a radio engineer for Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. He later joined the Civil Aeronautics Authority and went on to hold a number of positions with this federal agency and its successors, the Civil Aeronautics Administrations and Federal Aviation Agency between the 1930s and 1960s, serving as Assistant Radio Engineer at Birmingham (Alabama) Municipal Airport (1930s), Chief of Experimental Station in Indianapolis, Indiana (1940s), Chief of Maintenance Engineering Division (1950s), and Chief of Personnel and Training Division in Kansas City, Missouri (1960s). In the course of his career, Metz was a noted expert on aviation communications and air traffic control.