Starr Truscott

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Starr Truscott was an engineer who worked in the US Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics.

Truscott graduated from MIT, worked in a shipyard, and then on the Panama Canal project. In 1916 he went to the Signal Corps then transferred the U.S. Navy, Bureau of Construction & Repair, where he was an assistant for LTA airships to the chief of the Aviation Division. He was "sent to England, France, and Italy to investigate methods of design and construction of rigid airships, 1918–1921".[1]



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Names Starr Truscott
Birth date 1998-04-27
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Countries US
Locations Cleveland, Ohio; Washington, DC
Occupations engineer
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Affiliations United States Navy, Cosmos Club, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
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