Hunsaker, Jerome Clarke, 1886-1984
Jerome Clarke Hunsaker was an aeronautical engineer and designer. Born in Creston, Iowa in 1886, he graduated from the United States Naval Academy and later received a Doctorate of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Hunsaker was posted as Chief, Aircraft Division, Bureau of Construction and Repair, Navy Department from 1916–1921. He became Chief of the Design Division in 1921, where he designed the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), the first rigid airship constructed in the United States. He served as Assistant Naval Attaché—Europe from 1923–1926 before resigning his commission in November. He later worked as Assistant Vice President and Research Engineer for Bell Telephone Laboratories and then the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation, where he superintended the construction of the airships Akron (ZRS-4) and Macon (ZRS-5).
In 1933, Hunsaker became Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT. Under him, graduate students were trained as aeronautical engineers. He designed the first modern airship built in the United States as well as the C and D class Navy airships, and with Westervelt and Richardson, also designed the Curtiss NC flying boats.
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