Gavin D. Jenney: The Cold War Aerospace Technology History Project (original) (raw)

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Today we will talk with Gavin Jenney who is currently the President of Dynamic Controls Incorporated. A company that for many years was the "in-house" contractor at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base directing research in the areas of flight control systems, including among many "fly-by-wire." This interview is being conducted in the studios of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Wright State University as part of the Cold War Aerospace Technology History Project. The interviewer is Gino Pasi and as I said our interviewee today is Mr. Gavin Jenney. Mr.Jenney, thank you for taking some time to be with us this afternoon. 00:00:52 Gavin Jenney: You're quite welcome. 00:00:55 Pasi: If we could start, could you provide us with a brief synopsis of just some biographical information: where and when you were born; then maybe transition to your university education, and what might have prompted you to choose that particular path. 00:01:13 Jenney: Alright, I'd be glad to. Born in 1937, April 29 th. The education: Lafayette College, a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering; University of Rochester, a Masters in Mechanical Engineering; Ohio State University, a Ph.D. in Engineering with an emphasis in control systems. And then finally because I was at that time running a company, decided I'd better get an M.B.A. So I have an M.B.A from Wright State University which I got after the Doctorate, which gives a different perspective. It says there is a reason for engineering if you can sell it to somebody. As far as why I got into doing aerospace, I started out right out of college working for General Dynamics Electronics up in Rochester, New York. I was interested in HiFi, but they didn't have a job opening. They had a job opening in military products. I worked on several things at that point in time: a listening system for listening to-really-Russian radio transmissions, a wide

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