Arthur Merrick Blamphin Captain, United States Navy |
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Retired Navy Captain Arthur Merrick Blamphin, 95, a 23-year resident of Arnold, died of natural causes June 24 at his home. Born in Bellvue, Pennsylvania, a suburb of
Pittsburgh, on May 1, 1906, Captain Blamphin graduated from the University
of Pennsylvania in 1928 with a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering.
While working as a civilian draftsman at the Naval Aircraft Factory in
Philadelphia, he invented an antenna-kite for Navy pilots to deploy for
improved radio
In 1938, he and his family moved to Washington, D.C., where he began a career in aeronautical engineering and aircraft materials research. He joined the Navy in 1940. During his 20-year military career, he became an expert in the research and development of metal alloys and composites used in aircraft construction. He served four assignments in the Washington area, including a year at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, and held posts in Philadelphia, Alameda, California, and Kansas City, Missouri. In Philadelphia he was superintendent of the structures laboratory and was the Navy's project engineer during the development of the Martin-Baker pilot ejection seat. After retiring in 1960, he was secretary to the Materials Advisory Board, part of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. He retired again in 1971. His wife, Maude Elinor Hughes Blamphin, whom he married in 1933, died in 1979, a year after the couple moved from Arlington, Virginia, to Arnold. Captain Blamphin was an avid sailor, amateur historian, skilled woodworker and fan of humorist P.G. Wodehouse. Surviving are two sons, John M. Blamphin of Arnold and James E. Blamphin of Caledonia, N.Y.; one daughter, Elizabeth M. Mavraganis of West Windsor, N.J.; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. July 9 at
Arlington National Cemetery. Family and friends can meet at the Administration
Building there at 8:30 a.m. A service will follow at 11:30 a.m. at Woods
Memorial Presbyterian Church, 611 Baltimore Annapolis Blvd., Severna Park.
BLAMPHIN, ARTHUR MERRICK CAPT US NAVY WORLD WAR II, KOREA DATE OF BIRTH: 05/01/1906 DATE OF DEATH: 06/24/2001 BURIED AT: SECTION 8 SITE 7080 ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY BLAMPHIN, MAUDE HUGHES DATE OF BIRTH: 10/14/1911 DATE OF DEATH: 06/04/1979 BURIED AT: SECTION 8 SITE 7080 ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
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