www.aircrash.org.org/Burnelli-American Business Review, March 15, 1930
Really, it's not that much sifting through.
The quotes are short and to the point and dated.
Basicly, he was not apart of the "establishment".
www.aircrash.org.org/Burnelli- Charles F. Mullen Interview
In the late 1930's, after extensive examinations of flight test reports on
Burnelli aircraft and extensive wind tunnel tests of military models, Maj. Gen.
H.H. Arnold, Chief of United States Army Air Corps, signed a report to the
Secretary of War which extolled the excellence of the Burnelli Lifting Body
principle of design. The Arnold report ended with this quote: "in my opinion it
is essential, in the interest of national defense, that this procurement be
authorized." This report culminated in an invitation to Vincent J. Burnelli and
associates being invited to the Oval Office in the White House for a meeting
with President Roosevelt. The purpose was to celebrate the signing of a
presidential directive to order large quantities of Burnelli airplanes. However,
this meeting broke up without President Roosevelt signing the directive, and
it has been alleged that, in the midst of the meeting, President Roosevelt
learned that one of Burnelli's backers was Arthur E. Pew of the Sun Oil
Company. President Roosevelt threw his pen across the room and shouted that Burnelli would never receive any orders.
We at aircrash believe this was a pretext, a cover to destroy the Burnelli
Company for the purpose of transfering the technology to the Air Trust
discussed the introduction of this web-site as Burnelli was not part of the
establishment. This corruption prevented the production of the superior,
safer and less costly Burnelli airplanes for World War II. The result of this
corruption were many thousands of avoidable aircrew deaths and the waste of
billions of taxpayer dollars in the production of thousands of the inferior
conventional planes. This waste of lives and dollars came about because 1)
more aircraft were downed by the enemy and 2) since the carrying capacity of
these aircraft was less than that of the Burnelli, more of them (including
more aircrew) were required to achieve the same results.
Snoop aroung the index of the main website:
www.aircrash.org/Burnelli Introduction
I didn't know shit about this, until the story of Boeing starting a new "Blended Wing Body" as a "safer" passenger transport.
(And in the middle of the report, something about Burnelli's Wife fighting NASA.)
That small line got my ears up.
and then off we go.