![]() ![]() “The wind blew in the winter, and it was cold and dusty,” she recalled. Working conditions were not what most people expected, although Love was not surprised. She started as a GS-1 – the lowest rung on the government pay scale – and recalled that “It was several years before my two-week paycheck would equal $100.” Her job was to take film from an X-plane after a research flight, time code the traces on that film, turn that data into numbers and graph the numbers so the engineers could see what the strain gages registered or how much the control surfaces had deflected. ![]() Love began working as a “human computer” barely six years after the first contingent of NACA engineers and technicians arrived at the remote desert base. She grew up not far from what is today NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, and can remember family bonfires on Rosamond Dry Lake and trips by car across Rogers Dry Lake at night in 1942. Unlike most of the employees at the NACA station at the time, Betty was a native Californian. Ronald Reagan, Jim Love, Betty Love and state senator Walter Stiern.īetty Love came to work for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High Speed Flight Research Station at Muroc Air Force Base, now Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in 1952. From left, state assemblyman Kent Stacey, Judi Dana, Bill Dana, Gov. Honors for X-15 work - X-15 research engineering technician Betty Love (on right) joined her husband, X-15 project manager Jim Love and test pilot Bill Dana for a ceremony honoring the program’s success in California Gov. Betty Love: A living link to the early X-planes The following profiles represent just a sample of people who have made a difference in the agency’s history. NASA’s 50-year legacy of pioneering the future is as much the product of quietly persistent innovators and unsung heroes as it is of the agency’s more high profile representatives.
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