Education
Covert graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1946 and received a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering in 1948.
Covert graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1946 and received a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering in 1948.
In the 1970s he was the chief scientist of the United States Air Force and technical director of the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development. In 2005 it was announced that he would receive the Daniel Guggenheim Medal for aviation. In 1958, he received a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.