About Otto C. Winzen
Lived 1917 – 1979 (aged 61–62). Otto C. Winzen was a military flight engineer and engineer.
Otto C. Winzen (1917–1979) was a German-American aeronautics engineer who made significant advances in the materials and construction of high-altitude balloons after World War II.
Winzen emigrated to the United States in 1937 and spent time during the war in internment camps.
He studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Detroit. After World War II, Winzen became involved in high-altitude balloon research, working with Jean Piccard. In 1949 he started his own company with his wife Vera Simons, called Winzen Research, Inc.
He created a number of plastic balloons, in particular of polyethylene, which he sold to the United States Army and Navy including the Skyhook balloon, and the Air Force's Project Manhigh.
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American aeronautics engineer
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Otto C. Winzen was born in 1917.
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Otto C. Winzen died in 1979.
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Otto C. Winzen was a military flight engineer and engineer.
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