Via Certified RRR mail # Z 428 390 063

July 29, 1999

Mr. Daniel S. Goldin
Administrator
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
300 E. Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20546

Dear Mr. Goldin,

In our letter of January 8, 1998 among several on the same subject we pointed out two historical errors in the contents of a NASA Facts On Line publication entitled: "The Blended-Wing-Body". Namely, that publication claims that the ".. configuration called the BWB was conceived by the McDonnell Douglas Corporation." And that "The BWB program is examining a new method for engine installation that promises to increase safety and fuel efficiency."

We then pointed out that the BWB configuration is a copy of a Burnelli design laid in the 1940s. Mr. Burnelli invented the engine installation in the early 1940s and applied for a patent on September 11, 1945. Patent #2,586,299 was issued to Mr. Burnelli on February 19, 1952.

Mr. Burnelli's inventions were revolutionary in the 1940s so it is preposterous for NASA and McDonnell Douglas, fifty years later, to claim Burnelli's evolutionary proprietary and intellectual property rights.

We wrote to you on January 8, 1998 via Certified Mail, RRR#Z 689 257 975 and on February 11, 1998 via Certified Mail, RRR# Z 428 484 464, and despite reminders you failed to answer and/or correct the record per our previous requests. We must once again insist that you correct the factual errors in the NASA Facts On Line document mentioned above. Your continued silence in the matter can only mean that you have no argument with the contents of our letters.

Further, if you continue to maintain the statements in the Facts On Line document as true it will only point out that you are trying to cover up the fact that your organization is spending billions of dollars to "re-invent" or steal what was invented decades ago by Mr. Burnelli. This of course, should warrant some kind of investigation for the extreme waste of public funds associated therewith.