Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame
Enshrined 1992
A. Howard Hasbrook was born in Trenton, New Jersey and grew up in DuBois, Pennsylvania. During World War II, he served as a civilian flight instructor and engineering test pilot for the U.S. Army Corps. He later became interested in flight safety and crash survival design as the result of being seriously injured in an aircraft accident. In 1950, Howard joined Cornell University’s Crash Injury Research Program and became its Director in 1955. He later moved the Program to Arizona. In 1960, he joined the FAA’s Civil Aeromedical Research Institute in Oklahoma City as a senior research scientist and chief of crash safety and flight performance.