[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 12 (Tuesday, February 4, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E136]
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                        TRIBUTE TO JIM ESHLEMAN

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                       HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR.

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 4, 1997

  Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask my 
colleagues to join me today in recognizing the achievements of Jim 
Eshleman, an aerospace engineer from California's Inland Empire. Jim 
was recently honored with 1 of 50 company-wide Nova awards by Lockheed 
Martin Corp. The award was presented during a ceremony at the Air and 
Science Museum here in Washington last summer.
  Jim was recognized as the flight sciences lead for a team that 
designed and built a large-scale model of an aircraft that may replace 
about 3,000 military jets of various designs by the year 2010. Called 
the ``Joint Strike Fighter Demonstration Airplane,'' a one-design-fits-
all aircraft that could replace diverse military aircraft. All would be 
variations of the same plane, with but few modifications for each 
aircraft.
  Jim brings to his work at Lockheed the history and values of his home 
town Fontana in my congressional district. Along with his family, 
including his six brothers and sisters, Jim worked in the Eshleman Meat 
Co. in Fontana. Jim belonged to the local 4-H Club. In high school, he 
took an aviation sciences class and earned his pilot's license before 
high school graduation. He was educated at California State Polytechnic 
University, Pomona and Stanford University. He worked at NASA Ames 
Research Center before coming to Lockheed Martin in 1986 to join the 
famed Skunk Works.
  At home in my district, we are proud of the contributions Jim is 
making in the aerospace field. I ask my colleagues to share this pride 
in an American whose work will make a difference in the way military 
avionics will develop in the next century.

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