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Charles Emerson Locke
Charles Emerson Locke was born in Utica, Missouri in 1932. After spending four years in the U.S. Air Force, he studied aeronautical engineering at Northrop Institute of Technology ...view moreCharles Emerson Locke was born in Utica, Missouri in 1932. After spending four years in the U.S. Air Force, he studied aeronautical engineering at Northrop Institute of Technology in Inglewood, California, receiving his B.S. degree in 1961. Locke's engineering career included design work on jet fighters, rocket engines, oil-refinery equipment, the Apollo moon program, and Aqua-Lung Brand scuba-diving equipment. Locke retired in 1993 and now lives in Thailand. Locke has sired five children by three wives, indicating that his domestic life has been as shaky as his professional life. He vows to keep trying.view less