- Thomas Victor Jones
Thomas Victor Jones was the Chairman and CEO of
Northrop Corporation .He graduated
magna cum laude in engineering fromStanford University . He went to work atDouglas Aircraft Company in 1942. He worked for the Brazilian Air Ministry to create the Aeronautical Institute of Technology from 1947 to 1951. Around 1953 he went to work for theRAND Corporation where he published a study on transport planes for theU.S. Air Force . That same year he joinedNorthrop as assistant to the chief engineer, rose to be the president in 1959, chief executive officer in 1960 and chairman of the board in 1963.Jones retired as chief executive of Northrop in 1989 after being reprimanded by the
board of directors for his role in a bribery scandal surrounding the marketing the F-20 fighter toSouth Korea . [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE6DA173FF93AA35756C0A96F948260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fJ%2fJones%2c%20Thomas%20V%2e| New York Times, March 8, 1989] ]Honors
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National Aviation Hall of Fame (1999)
*Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy of theNational Aeronautic Association (1989)
*Reed Aeronautics Award (1985)References
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Time (magazine) ;October 27 ,1961 ; A Place in Space
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