Santa Clara County
Biographies
STANLEY HILLER, JR.
Stanley Hiller, Jr., president and founder of Hiller Helicopters, was born in San Francisco, California, November 15, 1924; the son of Stanley and Opal (Perkins) Hiller.
He received his preparatory education at Atuzed Preparatory School and University of California, Berkeley, between 1939 and 1944.
In 1944, Mr. Hiller designed, built and flew America’s first successful co-axial helicopter. He was director of Hiller-copter Division of Kaiser Cargo, Inc., 1944-45. In December of 1945 he organized United Helicopters, Inc. at Palo Alto, California, which in 1950 became Hiller Helicopters, and of which he is president and chairman of the Board of Directors.
Member of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences; American Helicopter Society; American Sons of Pioneers; and Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
On May 25, 1946, he married Carolyn Balsdon. They have their home in Atherton, California.
Mr. Hiller was recipient of the Fawcett Award in 1944 and received the Grand Trophy from World Inventors Congress, Los Angeles, California, in July of 1947. In 1951 he was selected by the U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce as one of America’s Ten Outstanding Young Men.
Address: 1350 Willow Road, Palo Alto, California.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 474, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Joyce Rugeroni.