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The Rodney V. Smith industrial plant project materials consists of correspondence, interviews, and background materials for a student project on the layout of a gyrocopter industrial plant. Smith worked on this project with two other students, James Newhouse and Jerome Holmes. Smith, Newhouse, and Holmes conducted interviews with employees at Bensen Aircraft, and sent letters to more than 25 companies, including All American Engineering Company, the National Aeronautic Association, the Aerospace Industries Association of America, and Doman Helicopters, Inc. The background materials in the collection include the Directory of Hospital Heliports in the United States and issues of Aerospace News.
Rodney V. Smith, James Newhouse, and Jerome Holmes are 1969 alumni of North Carolina State University.
Rodney V. Smith, James Newhouse, and Jerome Holmes are 1969 alumni of North Carolina State University.
The Rodney V. Smith industrial plant project materials consists of correspondence, interviews, and background materials for a student project on the layout of a gyrocopter industrial plant. Smith worked on this project with two other students, James Newhouse and Jerome Holmes. Smith, Newhouse, and Holmes conducted interviews with employees at Bensen Aircraft, and sent letters to more than 25 companies, including All American Engineering Company, the National Aeronautic Association, the Aerospace Industries Association of America, and Doman Helicopters, Inc. The background materials in the collection include the Directory of Hospital Heliports in the United States and issues of Aerospace News.
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[Identification of item], Rodney V. Smith Industrial Plant Project Materials, MSS 00165, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Received from Key L. Barkley, 1983 July 20
Processed by Special Collections staff, 2005; updated by Susan C. Rodriguez, 2015 December.
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[Identification of item], Rodney V. Smith Industrial Plant Project Materials, MSS 00165, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.
