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3 unusual facts about Rockwell


Rockwell-MBB X-31

This revolutionary maneuver has been called the "Herbst maneuver" after Dr. Wolfgang Herbst, an MBB employee and proponent of using post-stall flight in air-to-air combat.

VECTOR is a joint venture that includes the US Navy, Germany’s defense procurement agency BWB, Boeing's Phantom Works, and the European Aeronautic, Defense and Space Company in Ottobrunn, Germany.

Weitek

By 1995 the company was almost dead, and in late 1996 the remains were purchased by Rockwell's Semiconductor Systems and quickly disappeared.


Blue Knob State Park

The mountains in the park are capped by the Mississippian Burgoon Sandstone, which is underlain by the transitional Devonian-Mississippian Rockwell Formation, consisting of crossbedded argillacious sandstone with some shale beds.

Bob Rockwell

Bob Rockwell (born May 1945, Miami, Oklahoma) is a jazz saxophonist.

Carmel, Indiana

Lifelike sculptures by John Seward Johnson II, "The Normal Rockwell of American Sculpture", ornament the streets of the District.

Chip Hilton

Chip was based on Seton Hall basketball player Bob Davies, and Chip's coach, Henry "The Rock" Rockwell, was based on Bee himself.

Christopher Titus

Chris Titus dedicated his entire Norman Rockwell is Bleeding special and an episode of his show Titus ("The Pendulum," where Christopher is in a coma following a racecar crash and Ken played by Stacy Keach narrated the episode, "Christopher's Neutral Space") to his late father.

Denis Leamy

After finishing school in Rockwell, Leamy went to CIT to study Leisure Management, and started to play for UCC in the second division of the AIL.

Dudley Willis Rockwell

Dud was the son of Ruth Gowdy Rockwell and Stanley Pickett Rockwell, inventor of the Rockwell scale.

Dwight May

May was born in Sandisfield, Massachusetts to Rockwell and Celestia (Underwood) May and moved to Richland, Michigan at the approximate age of twelve.

Edward J. O'Hare

As he approached the intersection of Ogden and Rockwell, a dark sedan rolled up beside him and two shotgun-wielding henchmen opened up on him with a volley of big-game slugs.

Hosea H. Rockwell

Rockwell was elected as a Democrat to the 52nd United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1893.

John J. Creedon

Creedon has served on the Boards of Directors of various business corporations over the years including ArvinMeritor, Melville, Nynex and New York Telephone Company, Praxair, Rockwell International, Sonat, St. Regis Paper and Union Carbide and on the Advisory Board of the Firemark Global Insurance Fund.

John P. Healey

During this period Healey was responsible for upgrading Rockwell’s civilian aircraft, the Commander 112/114, and bringing them to an efficient production level.

Katharine Lambert Richards Rockwell

Katherine Lambert Richards Rockwell married theologian William Walker Rockwell in South Orange, New Jersey on November 8, 1934 after a courtship at Lake Sunapee (New Hampshire).

Kathleen Rockwell

Kathleen Eloise Rockwell (1873–1957), best known as "Klondike Kate", and later known as Kate Rockwell Warner Matson Van Duren, gained her fame as a dancer and vaudeville star during the Klondike Gold Rush, where she met Alexander Pantages who later became a very successful vaudeville/motion picture mogul.

Kiera Bennett

After Leaving The Royal College in 2002 Bennett was involved in creating Rockwell, an artist run gallery and studios in the East End of London (other founding members include Alex Gene Morrison, Reece Jones, Gavin Nolan, Chris Davies).

Kiffin Rockwell

Without waiting for a reply, the Rockwell brothers boarded SS St Paul, American Line in New York City and on August 7, 1914 departed for Europe, where they enlisted in the French Foreign Legion.

Lilburn Boggs

Mormon writer Monte B. McLaws, in the Missouri Historical Review, supported Smith, averring that while there was no clear finger pointing to anyone, Governor Boggs was running for election against several violent men, all capable of the deed, and that there was no particular reason to suspect Rockwell of the crime.

Limeira

After the 1970s, the industrial section area started to grow faster and some multinational companies came to Limeira, such as: Ajinomoto; the American company Rockwell bought Fumagalli in 1974, and 'Freios Varga' joined the English Group Lucas in 2000.

M. C. Frank Chang

He also received Pan Wen-Yuan Foundation Award in 2008, Rockwell’s Leonardo da Vinci Award (Engineer of the Year) in 1992, National Chiao Tung University’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1997, and the National Tsing Hua University Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2002.

Mary Rockwell Hook

Mary Rockwell Hook was also the first architect in Kansas City to use cast-in-place concrete walls.

Mellon Financial

Alcoa, Gulf Oil (now Chevron-Texaco), Westinghouse (now CBS Corporation and Siemens) and Rockwell, all were directly founded and managed by the bank.

Meservey, Iowa

As of the 2008-2009 school year, Thornton is part of the West Fork Schools, along with students from then neighboring towns of Thornton, Sheffield, Chapin, Rockwell, Swaledale, and the surrounding area.

MPTA-098

On June 24, 1977, MPTA-098 was delivered by Rockwell International to the National Space Technology Laboratory (NSTL), in Hancock County, Mississippi, where it was mated with the Main Propulsion Test Article External Tank (MPTA-ET), mounted in a launch orientation and used for static engine tests.

National Socialist Party of America

Collin, a follower of Rockwell, developed differences with his successor Matt Koehl.

Nauvoo Expositor

:Joseph Smith, Samuel Bennett, Councilor John Taylor, William W. Phelps, Councilor Hyrum Smith, Marshal John P. Greene, Stephen Perry, Dimick B Huntington, Jonathan Dunham, Stephen Markham, William Edwards, Jonathan Holmes, Jesse P. Harmon, John Lytle, Joseph W. Coolidge, Harvey D. Redfield, Porter Rockwell and Levi Richards

Norman Rockwell Museum

Founded in 1969, the museum is located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where Rockwell lived the last 25 years of his life.

North Carolina Highway 152

Established in 1930 as a new primary routing, from NC 150, east of Mooresville, to NC 80, in Rockwell.

Paw Oo Thet

He won a scholarship in 1959 that let him and Win Pe undertake Norman Rockwell's correspondence course, the Famous Artists School, in the United States.

Red Bull Road Rage

7 riders have successfully won both the qualifying run and the final at the same event: Miles Rockwell – Tuna Canyon, Malibu, California (2005); Frédéric Moncassin – Saint-Lary-Soulan, France (2009); Birgit Braumann and Thomas Schäfer – Moritzberg, Germany (2009); Janos Köhler – La Redoute, Aywaille, Belgium (2010); and Ivita Krūmiņa – Sigulda, Latvia (2010); David McCook - Guanella Pass, Georgetown, Colorado (2013).

Robert F. Rockwell

Rockwell was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward T. Taylor.

Rockwell Automation

Rockwell Automation was initially founded in 1903 as the Compression Rheostat Company by Lynde Bradley and Stanton Allen with an initial investment of $1,000.

On January 31, 2007, Rockwell Automation sold off their PowerSystems Division which consists of Dodge mechanical and Reliance Electric motors with headquarters in Greenville, South Carolina, to Baldor Electric Company.

Rockwell D. Hunt

Rockwell Dennis Hunt (1868–1966) was an eminent California historian, a professor at the University of Southern California and the University of the Pacific, and prolific author.

TACAMO

The French Navy operated four Transall C-160H aircraft using the Rockwell/Collins TACAMO gear from the E-6.

The Trafalgar Hotel

Located on the south side of Trafalgar Square, the hotel is a contemporary boutique hotel, containing Rockwell Restaurant and notable roof gardens called the Vista Bar.

Thornton, Iowa

As of the 2008-2009 school year, Thornton is part of West Fork Schools, along with students from then neighboring towns of Meservey, Sheffield, Chapin, Rockwell, Swaledale, and the surrounding area.

Tod Rockwell

Rockwell was a backup quarterback for Michigan at the start of the 1923 season but got the starting quarterback job after Irwin Uteritz broke his ankle in a game against the Quantico Marines.

Virginia Opera

Some notable performers who have sung with the company or been presented in concert include: Luciano Pavarotti, Beverly Sills, Renée Fleming, Barbara Dever, Jeannine Altmeyer, Ashley Putnam, Cristina Nassif, Frederick Burchinal, John Aler, Rockwell Blake, Randy Locke, Jake Gardner, Sujung Kim, Frank Porretta, Grant Youngblood, Fabiana Bravo, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Randall Scarlata, and Thomas Rolf Truhitte.

Walker-Turner

It was acquired by Rockwell in 1956 and Walker-Turner branded machines continued to be sold into the 1960s.

William J. Winslade

William J. Winslade, Ph.D., J.D. (born 18 November 1941) is the James Wade Rockwell Professor of Philosophy of Medicine at the Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law and Associate Director for Graduate Programs, Health Law & Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center.

World Union of National Socialists

Following Rockwell's assassination in 1967, control of the WUNS passed to Matt Koehl, who attempted to extend the influence of the group by appointing Danish neo-Nazi Povl Riis-Knudsen as general secretary.


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