Benjamin S. Kelsey

Benjamin Scovill Ben Kelsey was an American aeronautical engineer and test pilot who brought success in World War II to the United States Army Air Forces by initiating the manufacture of innovative fighter aircraft designs, and by working to quickly increase American fighter production to meet the needs of the coming war.

Benjamin S. Kelsey was born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1906, and was raised there. At the age ofhe completed a flying course with the Curtiss Flying Service at Garden City, New York. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering in June 1928, and stayed to teach and conduct research work in the aeronautics department. With fellow aeronautical engineering student Everard M. Lester, Kelsey wrote A Study in Cams as Applied to the Main Driving Member in Reciprocating Engines.

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