Your Ref. GP (95-37082).

Mr. Alan J. Kennedy
Senior Patent Attorney
Office of the Associate General Counsel
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON, DC 20546-0001

Dear Mr. Kennedy,

With regard to your letter of September 21, 1995, I would like to have answers to these two questions:

1) Is it your belief that, under law, the owner of a patent loses proprietary and intellectual property rights at the expiry date of the patent?

2)Is it not true, under law, that when criminal conspiracy is involved there is no statute of limitations?

When Mr. Burnelli made his advanced invention, disclosed in Patent No. 2,586,299, the filing date was September 11, 1945, but the patent was not issued until February 19, 1952. It is a matter of record that NACA/NASA had full knowledge of this important technological advance at that time, but they deliberately took no recognition of it to accommodate their industrial collaborators in the military-industrial complex.

You will see by the enclosures that, this year, both Aerospatiale and Airbus Industrie, in addition to McDonnell Douglas, have announced their versions of the 1951 Burnelli design. As NASA now claims that the Burnelli Company has no rights to this important design any longer, then NASA, by its failure to timely recognize the exceptional 1945 Burnelli technology, has made it possible for the Europeans to also claim public domain. I am sure that Congress and the American taxpayer will be delighted to learn of this development.

I look forward to your response.

Yours sincerely,

[signed]

CHALMERS H. GOODLIN
Chairman & President

CHG/av
Enclosures:
REVUE AEROSPATIALE, 119, June 1995 -- Studies - Return of the Flying Wing
AEROPORTS MAGAZINE, 259, June 1995 -- Flying Wing: Airbus Industrie Reveals All