Sheila Widnall

January 1, 1993 – January 1, 1997

4 quotes found

"Integrity is essential. It's the inner voice, the source of self-control, the basis for the trust that is imperative in today's military. It's doing the right thing when nobody's looking."

- Sheila Widnall

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"If women don't belong in engineering, then engineering, as a profession, is irrelevant to the needs of our society. If engineering doesn't make welcome space for them, then engineering will become marginalized as other fields expand their turf to seek out and make a place for women."

- Sheila Widnall

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"It's not easy being a pioneer. It's not easy having to prove every day that you belong. It's not easy being invisible or having your ideas credited to someone else."

- Sheila Widnall

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"Aircraft trailing vortices have little waves that are generated and then break up....If another aircraft intercepts that trailing vortex, someone can be killed, because it’s a swirling flow....People now know that if you land airplanes three minutes apart, that’s going to be safer."