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Abstract This collection contains the papers of William Hewitt Phillips (1918-2009), an aerospace engineer for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and National Air and Space Administration (NASA). The collection includes lecture notes, reports and memoranda tracing the development of Phillips' theories while at the Langley Research Center and spans from his work on World War II-era aircraft to the early U.S. space program and beyond. These papers include calculations of various...