- Charles Joseph Fletcher
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Charles Joseph Fletcher Born December 21, 1922
Franklin, New JerseyDied April 20, 2011
Franklin, NJResidence Freedon, NJ Citizenship US Fields Aeronautical Engineering
Inventing
BusinessKnown for Hovercraft Charles Joseph Fletcher, of Franklin, New Jersey,[1] is an American inventor and businessman, and holder of over seventy patents.
Biography
He is the president of Technology General Corporation, a small ($2 million annual revenue) manufacturer of drawn metal products, spray coating systems, power mixers, and commercial ice crushing equipment. Fletcher penned his autobiography, Quest for Survival, in 2002. Fletcher earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in aeronautical engineering from New York University in 1950. A contributor to the X-15 rocket, Fletcher also worked on the test version of the Lunar Landing Module, and holds seventeen aeronautical patents on vertical lift and rocket engines.[2][3] Fletcher was inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey in 1992 and the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame in 1993.
Publication
- Fletcher, Charles Joseph (2002). Quest For Survival. "My earliest recollection goes back to the age of four when my dad rented one of the New Jersey Zinc"
References
- ^ Manchester, Lee. "The resurrection of Wellscroft", from Adirondack Life, September/October 2002. Accessed October 2, 2007. "The new owner was Charles Fletcher, of Franklin, N.J. The retired Navy aviator and inventor was (and continues to be) president of a corporation that manufactures aeronautical equipment."
- ^ Fletcher, Charles (2002). Quest for Survival. Glenridge Publishing, Ltd.. ISBN 0-944435-50-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=cLKSAAAACAAJ&dq.
- ^ "Charles Joseph Fletcher". New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame. http://www.njinvent.org/1993/inductees_1993/fletcher.html. "While serving as a pilot in the U.S. Navy in Norfolk, Va., Charles J. Fletcher sketched the design for a vehicle envisioned to rise above the water or terrain (approximately 10 inches to two feet) depending on available horsepower. The vehicle would generate an airflow trapped against a uniform surface such as the ground or water, freeing it from the surface and eliminating friction. Positive control and movement would be attained using aircraft control techniques and the release of air."
Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey 1973 Amelia Earhart / Anne Morrow Lindbergh / Floyd Bennett / Clarence Duncan Chamberlin / Clyde Pangborn / Wittemann brothers · 1974 Anthony Fokker · 1975 Juan Terry Trippe · 1976 Bert Blanchard Acosta / Arthur Godfrey · 1980 Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. / Boland brothers / Charles Emery Rosendahl / Gill Robb Wilson · 1981 Robert Nietzel Buck · 1982 Walter M. "Wally" Schirra · 1984 Robert J. Collier · 1985 Malcolm S. Forbes · 1987 Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan / Oliver George Simmons · 1988 William Halsey, Jr. / Frederick Walker Castle · 1989 Charles J. Fletcher · 1993 Jean-Pierre Blanchard · 1996 Vincent Justus Burnelli / Kenneth A. Walsh · 1998 Richard E. Byrd · 1999 Terry Jonathan Hart · 2002 Oliver Colin LeBoutillier
Categories:- 1923 births
- Living people
- American inventors
- American aerospace engineers
- American manufacturing businesspeople
- American chief executives
- American autobiographers
- People from Sussex County, New Jersey
- New York University alumni
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