Henry McDonald

Henry McDonald - Writer

Henry McDonald is a writer and is the Irish Editor for the Observer, the Sunday edition of The Guardian (UK). McDonald has written extensively about The Troubles, its precedents, its consequences, its demographics, etc. He was born in the nationalist Markets area of Belfast and graduated from St. Malachy's College. McDonald was formerly involved in the Sinn Fein the Workers Party a left republican party that emerged out of the Official IRA in the early 1970s. He travelled to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) with the youth wing of SFWP around 1980. Much of his writing concerns Northern Irish paramilitaries, like the UDA and the INLA. He has written a book on the Irish National Liberation Army - "INLA - Deadly Divisions", which he co-authored with the now deceased Jack Holland. The book was first published in 1994 and has since been re-printed. More recently, McDonald has written on loyalist paramilitary groups and has co-authored books on the Ulster Volunteer Force and Ulster Defence Association with Jim Cusack. He also wrote a biography of Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble. He was, for a period, a security correspondent for the BBC in Belfast and has since criticised the BBC for burying stories which raised doubts about the intentions of the Provisional Republicans in the peace process. In this regard, he specifically cited the killing of Garda Jerry McCabe. Fact|date=April 2008 During the 1990's he was a staff reporter at Belfast newspaper The Irish News where he edited the youth pages.

Henry McDonald - Enigneer

Dr Henry McDonald is the Distinguished Professor and Chair of Computational Engineering at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga. Born in Scotland and educated there in aeronautical engineering, Dr McDonald worked in the U.K. aerospace industry on a number of both civil and military aircraft before immigrating to the U.S. In the US he was a staff member in large corporate research laboratory, United Technologies Research Center, where he concentrated on turbomachinery and what eventually became known as Computational Fluid Dynamics. Dr McDonald followed this by forming a small R&D company in Connecticut, Scientific Research Associates. It was while at Scientific Research Associates that Dr McDonald was asked to assist the NASA Team investigating the Challenger disaster. Subsequently he became a member of the Lockheed team investigating a Titan motor failure. Following this period of time Dr McDonald held a number of academic posts at Penn State and Mississippi State before accepting an Interagency Personnel Appointment at NASA where from 1996 till 2002 he was the Center Director at NASA Ames Research Laboratory. During his stay at NASA Dr McDonald led an Aeromechanical Team investigation of a V-22 Osprey accident, reporting to the Assistant Secretary of Defense. At the request of the NASA Administrator Dr McDonald then led a special investigation into Space Shuttle mishaps and this preceded the Columbia disaster. This particular investigation identified many of the systemic issues later cited by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. Dr McDonald is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow and Honorary Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Fellow of Royal Aeronautical Society. In 2008, Dr McDonald was appointed an Honorary Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

External links

* [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=Henry+McDonald++site%3Aguardian.co.uk&btnG=Search Henry McDonald columns in the Observer newspaper] . Retrieved April 13, 2006.