Professor (Captain) George W.
Haskins (1929-37)

Professor George W. Haskins (left) and Richard Arnett with Curtiss Robin loaned by Curtiss Services Corp. for class work January 1930 (-20 degrees F).

  • Born 11 March 1892
  • Purdue BSME 1916
  • U.S. Air Service (1917-1922)
  • Drying Systems (1924-29)
    • Chicago, IL
    • "Representative"
  • Joined Purdue ME 1 Sept. 1929
    • Associate Professor
    • Aeronautical Engineering
  • Left Purdue 30 June 1937
    • returned to Air Corps
    • later Civil Aeronautics Board

Aeronautical Engineering Class - (September 1934)

Professor G. W. Haskins explains aircraft construction to Purdue students

Captain Haskins and class of students examining turbo charger.
Left to right: D. P. Keller, W. Rivers, R. Warren (kneeling), M. G. Haines,
and Captain Haskins