TheMichigan Aeronautical Research Center (MARC) was one ofAmerica's leading air research organizations, run by theUniversity of Michigan atWillow Run Airport. It played a leading role in the creation of theBomarc Missile Program, alongsideBoeing.
Willow Run Laboratories was created in 1946, and in 1950, in recognition of an expanded research program, its name was changed toWillow Run Research Center,[1] which would eventually be spun off from the university in 1972 to form theEnvironmental Research Institute of Michigan.[2]Work at Willow Run during 1953 included testingthrottlable rocket motors andhypergolic propellants.
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