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join an integrated research group. Hoover then worked directly with NASA engineer Robert T. Jones, who was known as "one of the premier aeronautical engineers of the twentieth century". By 1946, Hoover was completing calculations and was widely relied on by Jones; her work was increasingly recognized as important to the aeronautics field. Hoover became one of the first black women published out of NACA/NASA. She published two articles in 1951 with co-author Frank S Malvestuto addressing "thin sweptback tapered wings" on aircraft. These articles both moved the development of high-speed aircraft in military and civilian life. Today, every aircraft involved in supersonic speed utilizes her design concepts, including commercial planes, fighter jets, and the space shuttle.
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