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Philip Bono was born on 13 January, 1921, is an A 20th-century American engineers. Discover Philip Bono's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?
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Philip Bono Net Worth
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Philip Bono (13 January 1921 – 23 May 1993) was a Douglas Aircraft Company engineer.
He was a pioneer of reusable vertical landing single-stage to orbit launch vehicles.
As a visionary designer, he is credited with inventing the first version of a recoverable single-stage spacecraft booster, and his contributions influenced spacecraft design.
Bono pursued single-stage space launch as simpler and cheaper.
He realized to do this he would need to use high specific impulse liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen rocket engines.
Afterwards he proposed to make these vehicles reusable.
From his ROOST design onwards Bono advocated space launch vehicles without wings, usually using rocket assisted vertical Takeoff and landing (VTVL).
According to his estimates, wings consisted mostly of dead weight that decreased launch payload mass.
He patented a reusable plug nozzle rocket engine which had dual use as a heat shield for atmospheric reentry.
Philip Bono was born in Brooklyn, New York on 13 January 1921.
He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1947 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
After graduation, Bono worked as a research and systems analyst for North American Aviation.
His early 1960s concepts influenced later designs like the 1990s Delta Clipper, also from Douglas.
Bono began working for Douglas Aircraft company in 1960.
Among Bono's visionary designs was a 1960 Boeing design for a crewed Mars spacecraft capable of carrying eight.
Hyperion was HTVL, the others VTVL.
After the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and the Douglas Aircraft Company, he worked for McDonnell Douglas Astronautics from 1966 until 1988.
Philip Bono died on 23 May 1993 at the age of 72.
He was a resident of Costa Mesa, California at the time of his death.
Less than three months after Bono's death, the first launch vehicle based on his designs, the McDonnell Douglas DC-X (Delta Clipper) began a largely successful series of test flights.
The DC-X was a vertical-Takeoff and vertical landing vehicle.
The series of test flights began on 18 August 1993 and continued until the upgraded version of the launch vehicle (renamed the DC-XA) tipped over on landing on July 31, 1996.
