Theodore (Ted) Koch is a donor to the Aircraft Engine Historical Society (AEHS).
Biographical Information (from 7 September 2025 email): "In my early career I worked as a Pratt & Whitney Aircraft [P&WA] experimental test development engineer. I developed and tested engines and [engine] components, and [was part of] the fuel cell development for the Apollo Space Program. I was part of the launch team for the first six Apollo launches at KSC [Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida].
As a P&WA Area Director, I became a customer technical representative covering Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.
After retirement from P&WA, I contracted to Martin-Marietta [Company] to develop and implement a Customer Service Department for their recently purchased engine nacelle manufacturing program.
Later I became a supplier to antique aircraft refurbishers making unique individual hardware pieces."
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Document Type: Periodical (Internal Newsletter).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Company (Manufacturer).Document Number: Volume 1, No. 8 (October, 1943).Scope: Periodic newsletter written and published by the United Aircraft Corporation as a "...Report of Performance at Home and Abroad by the Designers and Builders of Chance Vought Airplanes, Pratt & Whitney Engines, Sikorsky Helicopters and Hamilton Standard...
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Document Type: AdvertisementPurpose: Sales and marketing.Authority: Government Civil.Scope: Patriotic poster, likely from 1917 or 1918, urging Americans to "Buy War Savings Stamps". Poster was printed "Compliments of: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation.Contents: Features the poem "My Soldier" and a black & white photograph of a young girl and her mother saying prayers for a...
