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The Naval Air Experimental Station was a research and testing facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during World War II. Though the exact details of the work done there were secret, from the lone extant example of the papers published at the time, it was a station which dealt with the structure and ergonomics of aircraft wing designs.

Three prominent science fiction authors worked at the station:

• Isaac Asimov
• L. Sprague de Camp
• Robert A. Heinlein

Heinlein was Asimov's supervisor, but DeCamp, a Naval Lieutenant, outranked them both.

Heinlein met his future wife Lieutenant Virginia Doris Gerstenfeld there.

Tony, a blind machinist who worked at the facility, a man whose safety and production record equalled that of sighted machinists, inspired Heinlein to write The Green Hills of Earth.