Richard Joseph Framme was born February 7, 1905 in Carrollton, Kentucky. He was married to Blanche Anna Stanford May 8, 1937 and they had 2 sons and three daughters. Mr. Framme received a Bachelors of Science from the University of Kentucky in 1929. He continued his education and professional development at Bell Telephone Laboratories (1929-1933), Ohio State University (1948), University of Dayton (1958) and the United State Air Force Institute (1958).
Richard Framme enjoyed a long career, serving for such esteemed organizations as Bell Telephone Laboratory (1929-1933); Columbia University (1934-1935) and the USAF at Wright Patterson Air Force Base ARL under a variety of job titles from 1935-1973. In 1942 Richard Framme joined the Army Signal Corps as a Captain and rose to the rank of Lt. Colonel by 1948. He retired as the chief engineer of the aircraft instrument landing branch of the navigation division of ARL.
As an engineer Richard Framme participated in the development of the Automatic Radio Compass, (ILS) Instrument-Landing System and won a patent for an Aircraft Radio Navigator.
From the guide to the Richard Joseph Framme Papers, 1929-1973, 1940-1959, (Wright State University, Special Collections and Archives)
