1919–2014
News Writer:
Douglas Smith
![Puckett JPL supersonic wind tunnel](http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/www-prod-storage.cloud.caltech.edu/styles/article_photo/s3/10.10-5_Puckett_JPL_WInd_Tunnel.jpg?itok=wEKA-buL "JPL engineer Dalton Bergan (at left) and Allen E. Puckett with JPL's 12" supersonic wind tunnel in an undated photo.")
Allen E. Puckett with JPL's 12" supersonic wind tunnel in an undated photo.
Allen E. Puckett (PhD '49), the engineer who helped father the delta-winged airplane, the guided missile, and the communications satellite, and who turned Hughes Aircraft into the nation's top provider of radar systems and other defense-related electronics, passed away at his home in Pacific Palisades, California, on March 31, 2014, at age 94.
