I'm Ed. I'm in my 60's. I'm a recovering aerospace engineer who now teaches physics in an urban high school in Connecticut.
When I was an aerospace engineer, I worked at Lycoming-Stratford, where I was a test engineer on the ALF-502 and QCGAT turbofans. Later, I was at Sikorsky, where I started as a test engineer and meandered, via work in LO, to aerodynamics, thence to Hamilton Standard, where I did prop aero for a few years. Since then, I worked as a software developer in the defense industry, and later, in the market research business (where the perqs were much better) until a restructuring resulted in my being laid off about the same week my father passed on (it was not a good January...)
I'm here to follow my interests into the details of aviation history and of almost-, never-, and thank-God-they-didn't do that-weres.