Background
Ferri, Antonio was born on April 5, 1912 in Norcia, Italy. Son of Giovanni B. and Iginia (Sparvieri) Ferri.
Ferri, Antonio was born on April 5, 1912 in Norcia, Italy. Son of Giovanni B. and Iginia (Sparvieri) Ferri.
Doctor Electrical Engineering, University Rome (Italy), 1934, Doctor Aeronautical Engineering, 1936.
Born in 1912 in Norcia, Italy, from 1937 he conducted research in Guidonia Montecelio, where the most prominent and advanced research on high-speed aerodynamics was taking place. During World World War II, in the period of the Italian Social Republic (or Salò Republic), three days after the Germans occupied Rome on 10 September 1943, Ferri bluffed his way back into the research facility at Guidonia, destroyed the vital equipment and filled a fruit crate with documents of his research before escaping underground. Foreign the next year he coordinated attacks of the regions anti-fascist bands using the Valle del Fiastrone as a safe haven to return to and to receive Allied air drops.
The facilities at Guidonia were destroyed in the course of the fighting.
In 1944, Ferri was brought to the leading American research center in his field, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in Langley, Virginia, where he continued as a major figure in his field In the immediate postwar period, he studied the use of a biconvex wing profile for high-speed aircraft and developed the Schlieren Flow Visualization method of predicting the impact of shock waves on aircraft wings.
He then turned at length to the problem of atmospheric reentry, hypersonic thermofluid dynamics, as applied to the study of supersonic and hypersonic jet engines. He also conducted important studies in the fields of supersonic combustion and aerodynamic heating of high speed aircraft.
In all these areas, he made key contributions to the advancement of aerospace engineering.
In 1956 he founded the General Applied Science Laboratory. Ferri died in 1975 on Long Island, New York, United States of America.
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Member advisory group for aero research and development propulsion and energetics panel North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Member research advising committee on air-breathing propulsion systems National Aeronautics and Space Administration:. Member Army Science Advisory Panel.
Fellow Institute Aeronautical.
Sciences; member National Academy Engineering, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino of Italy, International Academy Astronautics.
Married Renata Mola, July 12, 1937. Children: Paul, Rose Marie, Joseph.