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Ashley served on committees and advisory boards of NACA [NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics], NASA, the Air Force, the Navy and the National Research Council as well as of the aerospace industry. "From his work on the NACA subcommittee on vibration and flutter to a review of space-shuttle tile safety, Ashley has applied fundamental approaches to a wide array of practical engineering problems," Kroo said.
Ashley was born Jan. 10, 1923, in San Francisco. His father, Harold, had served in World War I and was a prominent businessman by the time World War II broke out. Nonetheless, he reenlisted. The younger Ashley felt intense guilt that it was his father, and not he, who was serving, and took leave from the California Institute of Technology, where he had been a sophomore, to join the Army Air Corps. He served in the war as a weather forecaster and reconnaissance officer, flying with squadrons over the North Atlantic and Europe. The experience spawned his first paper, "Icing in North West Europe," and earned him six military medals.
After earning master's (1948) and doctoral (1951) degrees in aeronautical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ashley rose through the faculty ranks there to become an associate professor in 1954 and a full professor in 1960.
In 1964, he helped establish the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur. "He nurtured deep and sincere friendships with scientists from far, far away," Stanford Professor Sanjiva Lele, an IIT graduate, wrote in an e-mail read at the memorial. "He served as first head of the department. He taught there during the very first year of the institute, wrote a classic book and inspired a generation of young Indian engineers."
Ashley returned to his native California in 1967 to join Stanford as a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His students remember him as a patient mentor whose door was always open and whose meticulous lectures were models of clarity.
"Professor Ashley encouraged us to work on hang gliders or to take a summer off to think about sailboats or to think about flapping vehicles, whatever, but to think independently and to think deeply," Kroo said. "He was the only member of the faculty to be a specialist in every discipline of the PhD qualifying examinations."
As much a father as a teacher to some of his students, Ashley "instilled in us a love for flight and the elegant mathematics that helped us understand it" as well as shared his love for Stanford, the Bay Area, basketball games, big cigars and fine wine, Kroo said. "He took us to the Faculty Club for dinners and to meetings that would make our careers."
Many recalled Ashley's sense of humor. At the end of a committee's first meeting, he would make a motion to terminate the committee to stimulate the discussion that would test its worth. With Bob Halfman, one of his co-authors, he formed a consulting company to work on aircraft design—they called it Half-Ash Aeronautical Consultants.
Ashley became emeritus in 1989. "[He] took early retirement to enable the department to hire new young faculty," former Aero/Astro Chair George Springer, the Paul Pigott Professor of Engineering, said. "He then proceeded to carry a full load of teaching and research for the [following] years without pay."
Ashley's honors include the 2003 Daniel Guggenheim Medal, which is jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the 2006 Reed Aeronautics Award of the AIAA, the highest award in aeronautics and astronautics.
His work has been published in about 100 journal articles and five books: Aeroelasticity, Thickness and Boundary Layer Effects, Principles of Aeroelasticity, Aerodynamics of Wings and Bodies and Engineering Analysis of Flight Vehicles.
Since 1962, he was a member of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco. He also served on the board of the civic association for the town of Woodside.
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