Jack G. Real
Jack Real began his aviation career two years after graduating
from MTU with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1937. He
joined Lockheed Aircraft as a design engineer in 1939, flew
for Pan Am during World War II, then worked as a test pilot
and flight test engineer for Lockheed until 1965, when he
became vice president and general manager of the Lockheed
Rotary Wing Division. He became Howard Hughes chief aviation
advisor and left Lockheed to join the Hughes organization
in 1971. He served as president of Hughes Helicopter from
1979 until 1984, when he supervised the sale of the company
to McDonnell Douglas. He remained as president of the new
McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company until retiring in late
1986. Real received an honorary doctor of engineering degree
from MTU in 1968, received the MTU Alumni Association's Distinguished
Alumnus Award in 1995, is a member of the Presidents Club,
the Second Century Society, is a life trustee of the Michigan
Tech Fund and holds honorary degrees from Selma College in
West Virginia, and Northrup University in California.
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