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Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open to research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], C. Wayne Ottinger Papers, Ms1992-038, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Source of Acquisition

The C. Wayne Ottinger Papers was donated to Special Collections in 1992.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the C. Wayne Ottinger Papers commenced and was completed in 1992. Additional description was completed in May 2009.

Administrative History - PAT Projects, Inc.

From 1994 until about 2002, PAT Projects, Inc. existed as a not-for-profit company "providing research, technical and educational publications, and multimedia productions for the preservation of aerospace technology." The company also worked to provide materials for K-12 classroom education about applications of math and science.

Biographical Note - C. Wayne Ottinger

Aerospace engineer C. Wayne Ottinger (b. 1933) served as managing director of PAT Projects, Inc. In 1960, he joined NASA, eventually working on the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle project for the Apollo program. He left for Bell Aerosystems in 1966 to work on the Lunar Landing Training Vehicles project, also used in the Apollo program. In 2008, Ottinger founded Aerospace Legacy Engineering & Technology Recovery Organization (ALETRO), a non-profit that "help[s] locate, preserve, and present the technical information from America's space race."

External sources:

PAT Projects, Inc., "Exploring the Extreme: High Performance Learning Activities in Mathematics, Science and Technology," NASA, n.d., available online from NASA at https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/62553main_exploring.the_.extreme.guide_.pdf , accessed on Nov. 20, 2024.

Aerospace Legacy Engineering & Technology Recovery Organization, https://www.aletro.org/ , accessed on Nov. 20, 2024.

"Wayne Ottinger," American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, https://www.aiaa.org/detail/person/wayne-ottinger , accessed on Nov. 20, 2024.

Scope and Content

This collection contains of a draft of a proposal, "Concept Proposal for Preservation of Aerospace Technology Project (PAT) [Improving Technology Preservation Processes]" written by former NASA aerospace engineer C. Wayne Ottinger and others for what would become PAT Projects, Inc. It also includes an executive summary, cover letter, and slides of proposal presentation. The proposal suggests the need for documenting aerospace history. Primary goals of the project include providing "a lead role in improving and developing processes to identify, prioritize, acquire, preserve, and communicate information and artifacts that constitute Endangered Information in aerospace technology" and creating "a consensus for the establishment of an aerospace history discipline center."

Arrangement

The collection is arranged by material type.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Aerospace engineers
• Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (AAAE)
• Science and Technology

Rights Statement for Archival Description

The guide to the C. Wayne Ottinger Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).