Arthur Emmons Raymond
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Arthur Emmons Raymond (March 24, 1899 – March 22, 1999) was an engineer for the Douglas Aircraft Company and worked on designs from the DC-2 to the DC-8 and was a consultant on the Gemini and Apollo programs for NASA.
Raymond was the Chief Engineer on the DC-3, "The Plane That Changed the World." The DC-3 was the first plane that could make money just hauling passengers.
"In the DC-3, he did almost everything," said his grandson, Stephen Raymond. "He knew every bolt and screw in that plane." Arthur Raymond was one of the founders of the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California. In November 1991 he received the National Air and Space Museum Lifetime Achievement Trophy.
Raymond was also a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.[1]
Arthur E. Raymond died on March 22, 1999, two days short of his 100th birthday, in Santa Monica, California.
