George Wolfe Brady was born in Muncie, Indiana in 1903. He graduated from Yale University in 1925 and earned a Masters degree in Aeronautical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked a few years for Chance-Vought Aircraft and then 30 years for Curtiss-Wright Aircraft. He served as chief engineer of the propeller division helping to design the reverse pitch propeller, jet engines, and turbo-props. After World War II, Brady worked with Dr. Robert Goddard in developing liquid fuel rockets for the military. After Sputnik was launched by the Soviet Union in 1958, Brady moved to Washington, D.C. to assist NASA in the technical planning of the space program, and then to develop the space shuttle. He did this as a member of the Institute of Defense Analyses. He died in 1986.
From the description of George Wolfe Brady papers, 1910s-1976. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 67613073
