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July 9, 1996
Mr. Daniel S. Goldin
Administrator
N.A.S.A.
300 E Street, S.W.
WASHINGTON, DC 20546
Dear Mr. Goldin,
In view of the recent correspondence directed to you commencing
with my letter dated March 29, 1995, which pointed
out the misappropriation of Burnelli rights by the NASA-funded megajet
project, we are quite astonished to learn that NASA has now funded Lockheed
Martin to pirate the same Burnelli rights in the X-33.
Surely this represents unprecedented arrogance and confirms that the military-industrial
complex is entirely devoid of any morals, ethics or common decency.
You will see by the enclosed Burnelli-Lockheed correspondence commencing
with my letter to Lockheed's President, Courtland
S. Gross, dated March 14, 1961, that Burnelli has repeatedly shown
diligence in keeping Lockheed appraised of Burnelli rights. The Lockheed
letter to me dated June 5, 1961, signed by Senior Vicepresident Hall
L. Hibbard, discloses that Lockheed has always been fully aware of Burnelli
importance in VTOL and multi-mach capability. It must be remembered that
Mr. Hibbard made his positive remarks during the same period when the Department
of Defense was repeatedly disseminating the fallacious technical asseverations
from the fraudulent 1941 U. S. Army Air Corps proceedings of the Board
of Review. One of these technical falsifications is quoted herewith:
"That the Burnelli emphasis upon the 'lifting fuselage' is
not in accordance with best aeronautical practice based upon best aerodynamic
information, since such a fuselage has a relatively low critical speed
which definitely limits the future development of this type of airplane."
This despicable practice by the Department of Defense persecuted
the great Mr. Burnelli into a pauper's grave and has kept the Burnelli
company prostrate for fifty-five years.
The current emergence of the X-33,
on top of the 1995 emergence of the McDonnell
Douglas megajet, poses this question: Why has the
military-industrial complex wasted so many hundreds of billions of
taxpayers' dollars on costly unsafe conventional air transports and space
shuttles when it was known in 1961 that the Burnelli configuration and
power plant installation offered much superior, safer and less costly technology?
Under the circumstances and as a matter of principle and honor we
trust that NASA will find it obligatory to request Lockheed Martin to negotiate
a license agreement with the Burnelli Company for the use of its proprietary
and intellectual property rights.
From the correspondence and phone calls I have received from your
attorney, Mr. Alan Kennedy, it is obvious that he does not comprehend the
significance, the implications or the magnitude of the scientific fraud
and criminal negligence involved in the Burnelli conspiracy by the military-industrial
complex.
May I kindly have a response from you, Sir, as the accountable authority?
Thank you .
Enclosures
cc: Mr. Norman Augustine, [Vice-Chairman & CEO, Lockheed]
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