Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center
The University of Maryland is home to one of only three national Vertical Lift Research Centers of Excellence carrying out multidisciplinary research on rotorcraft systems.
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Alfred Gessow
University of Maryland's rotorcraft center is named after former Department of Aerospace Engineering Chair Alfred Gessow (1922-2002). His pioneering work helped establish precise methods of rotor analysis, and the center was established with support from the U.S. Army Research Office and the U.S. Army, Navy, and NASA to carry out multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary research.
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