Bailie, Kim

Bailie, Kim
▪ 2009
John Alexander Hope Bailie 
      South African-born aerospace engineer

born Feb. 2, 1929, Johannesburg, S.Af.

died Aug. 29, 2008, Palo Alto, Calif.
earned a global reputation as a designer of missile bodies. After training as an engineer in England, he immigrated in 1956 to the U.S., where he worked for Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (now a division of Lockheed Martin). There he did pioneering design work on Polaris, the world's first ballistic missile capable of being launched by a submarine while submerged. Later he helped develop the Trident submarine-launched ballistic missile and was involved in designing the experimental X-30 National Aero-Space Plane.

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