Rumberger

As he started working on the wing stow problem, Rumberger got along well with the Bell engineers, even the notoriously difficult Ken Wernicke.

The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

Gordon Leishman, Alan Ewing, and Bill Rumberger for their patience.

The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

The diplomatic solution, Rumberger decided, would be to try to combine the best features of some of the dozens of designs both companies had already proposed, and thus win hearts and minds.

The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

Rumberger modeled it, Grina, Peck and Bell approved it, and Boeing Vertol had a subcontractor fabricate a prototype.

The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

Rumberger had grown up down the road from Ridley Park in Essington and gotten his engineering degree from what was then Drexel Institute in Philadelphia.

The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

Rumberger showed it to other engineers at Boeing Vertol and they liked it.

The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

While the SWAT team was at Ridley Park, Rumberger had been off on his own, quietly working on a new idea.

The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

Many teachers are not adequately prepared to work with a linguistically diverse student population (American Federation of Teachers, 2004; Fillmore & Snow, 2002; Gándara, Rumberger, Maxwell-Jolly, & Callahan, 2003; Menken & Antunez, 2001; Nieto, 2003).

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Rumberger, though, never gave up on his flex ring.

The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

“When he said jump, all we said was, ‘How high?’” remembered William Rumberger, an engineer who worked for him.

The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010