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| x Northrop Corporation |
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F-5 Freedom Fighter |
The Northrop Corporation was a leading United States aircraft manufacturer from its formation in 1939 until its merger with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman in 1994. The company is known for its development of the flying wing design, although only a...
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| x Boeing |
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E-6 Mercury |
The Boeing Company is a major aerospace and defense corporation, founded by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Its international headquarters has been in Chicago,...
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| 2018 Bomber | |||
| x Boeing Commercial Airplanes |
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Boeing 767 |
Boeing Commercial Airplanes is a unit of The Boeing Company, based in Renton, Washington consisting of the Seattle-based former Boeing Airplane Company (the civil airliner division), as well as the Long Beach-based Douglas Aircraft division of the...
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| Boeing 767-200 | |||
| Boeing 767-300 | |||
| Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter | |||
| x Hans Multhopp | Focke-Wulf Ta 183 |
Hans Multhopp was a German aerospace engineer during the Second World War. He was in charge of developing the Focke-Wulf Ta 183, jet fighter. After the end of the war, Multhopp moved to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip, where he gave...
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| x Clarence Johnson |
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P-80 Shooting Star |
Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson (February 27, 1910 – December 21, 1990) was an aircraft engineer and aeronautical innovator. As a member and first team leader of the Lockheed Skunk Works, Johnson worked for more than four decades and is said to...
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| F-104 Starfighter | |||
| Lockheed XF-90 | |||
| T-33 Shooting Star | |||
| Lockheed Constellation | |||
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| x Burt Rutan |
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Beechcraft Starship |
Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan (born June 17, 1943 in Estacada, Oregon) is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft. He is often described as the "second true...
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| Scaled Composites Voyager | |||
| Rutan VariViggen | |||
| Rutan Defiant | |||
| Rutan Quickie | |||
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| x Alexander Graham Bell |
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AEA Cygnet |
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.
Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work...
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| AEA Silver Dart | |||
| x Roy Chadwick |
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Avro Lancastrian |
Roy Chadwick, CBE, FRAeS (30 April 1893 – 23 August 1947) was an aircraft designer for Avro. Born at Marsh Hall Farm, Farnworth in Widnes, son of the mechanical engineer Charles Chadwick, he was the Chief Designer for the Avro Company and was...
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| Avro Shackleton | |||
| Avro York | |||
| Avro Tudor | |||
| Avro Lancaster | |||
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| x Lockheed Martin |
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EC-130 Commando Solo |
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a multinational aerospace manufacturer, global security and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed with Martin Marietta. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington...
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| 2018 Bomber | |||
| Orion | |||
| F-35 Lightning II | |||
| x Glenn Curtiss |
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AEA June Bug |
Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an American aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
Curtiss was born in 1878 in Hammondsport, New York to Frank...
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| Curtiss JN-4 | |||
| AEA Silver Dart | |||
| Curtiss No. 1 | |||
| Curtiss No. 2 | |||
| x Zygmunt Puławski |
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PZL P.11 |
Zygmunt Puławski (October 24, 1901 - March 21, 1931) was a Polish aircraft designer and pilot. He invented a gull-wing aircraft design, also known as "Puławski wing" and constructed a series of Polish PZL fighters
He was born in Lublin. In the...
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| x Dmitry Grigorovich |
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Grigorovich M-9 |
Dmitry Vasilyevich Grigorovich (Russian: Дмитрий Васильевич Григорович) (March 19 (N.S. March 31), 1822, Simbirsk - December 22, 1899 (N.S. January 3, 1900), Petersburg) was a Russian writer.
Dmitry Grigorovich graduated from an engineering school...
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| x Gippsland Aeronautics |
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Gippsland GA8 |
Gippsland Aeronautics are an Australian aircraft manufacturer based at Latrobe Valley Airport in Morwell, Victoria. The company builds utilitarian single-engined aircraft. These include the GA8 Airvan and the GA200 Fatman.
Gippsland Aeronautics,...
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| Gippsland GA200 | |||
| x Arthur M. Young | Bell 47 |
Arthur Middleton Young (November 3, 1905 – May 30, 1995) was an American inventor, helicopter pioneer, cosmologist, philosopher, astrologer and author. Young was the designer of Bell Helicopter's first helicopter, the Model 30, and inventor of the...
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| x Kurt Tank |
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Focke-Wulf Fw 190 |
Kurt Waldemar Tank (February 24, 1898 - June 5, 1983) was a resourceful German aeronautical engineer and test pilot, heading the design department at Focke-Wulf from 1931-45. He designed several important aircraft of World War II, including the...
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| HAL HF-24 Marut | |||
| Focke-Wulf Ta 183 | |||
| FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II | |||
| Focke Wulf Ta 400 | |||
| x Sukhoi |
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Shenyang J-11 |
Sukhoi (Сухой) is a major Russian aircraft manufacturer famous for its fighters. Founded by Pavel Sukhoi in 1939 as the Sukhoi Design Bureau (OKB-51, design office prefix Su), it is currently known as Sukhoi Corporation. It comprises the JSC Sukhoi...
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| Sukhoi Su-30MKK | |||
| Sukhoi Superjet 100 | |||
| x Secondo Campini | Campini Caproni CC.2 |
Secondo Campini (August 28, 1904 - February 7, 1980) was an Italian engineer and one of the pioneers of the jet engine.
Campini was born at Bologna, Emilia-Romagna. In 1931 he wrote a proposal for the Italian Air Ministry on the value of jet...
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| x Igor Sikorsky |
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Sikorsky Ilya Muromets |
Igor Sikorsky (25 May [O.S. 13 May] 1889 – 26 October 1972), born Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (Russian: Игорь Иванович Сикорский, Ukrainian: Ігор Іванович Сікорський), was a Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing...
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| Sikorsky R-4 | |||
| Sikorsky VS-44 | |||
| Sikorsky S-42 | |||
| Sikorsky Russky Vityaz | |||
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| x John Thorp | Thorp T-211 |
John Willard Thorp (June 20, 1912 - April 18, 1992) was an aeronautical engineer who made significant contributions to aircraft design throughout his life.
Born in French Camp, California, John Thorp grew up from age four in the historic Locke...
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| x PZL |
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PZL M-28 |
PZL (Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze - State Aviation Works) was the main Polish aerospace manufacturer of the interwar period, based in Warsaw, functioning in 1928-1939. The abbreviation was thereafter - from late 1950s - used as an aircraft brand and...
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| x Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich |
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Grigorovich M-5 |
Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich, in Russian: Дмитрий Павлович Григорович, (born in Kiev, Russian Empire, 25 January (6 February) 1883, died 26 July 1938 in Moscow) was a Russian/Soviet aircraft designer of a number of planes under the Grigorovich name.
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| Grigorovich M-9 | |||
| x Geoffrey de Havilland |
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Airco DH.9 |
Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, OM, AFC, RDI, FRAeS, (27 July 1882 – 21 May 1965) was a British aviation pioneer and aircraft engineer. His Mosquito has been considered the most versatile warplane ever built.
Born on 27 July 1882 at Magdala House...
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| Airco DH.2 | |||
| De Havilland Tiger Moth | |||
| Airco DH.1 | |||
| Airco DH.6 | |||
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| x Joseph Smith | Supermarine Swift |
Joseph ("Joe") Smith CBE (25 May 1897 - 20 February 1956) was an English aircraft designer who took over as Chief Designer for Supermarine's upon the death of R. J. Mitchell and led the team responsible for the subsequent development of the...
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| Supermarine Spiteful | |||
| x William Boeing |
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B & W Seaplane |
William Edward Boeing (October 1, 1881 – September 28, 1956), born "Wilhelm Edward Boeing", was an aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company.
Boeing was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a wealthy German mining engineer named Wilhelm Böing who had...
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| Boeing Model 6 | |||
| x General Aircraft Ltd |
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Blackburn Beverley |
General Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer from its formation in 1931 to amalgamation with Blackburn Aircraft in 1949 to become Blackburn and General. Their main products were military gliders and light transport aircraft.
General...
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| x Eurocopter Group |
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HAL Dhruv |
The Eurocopter Group is a European helicopter manufacturing and support company formed in 1992 from the merger of German Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG (DASA) and the helicopter divisions of French Aérospatiale.
As a consequence of the merger of the...
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| Z-9 | |||
| Changhe Z-11 | |||
| x Louis Charles Breguet |
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Breguet Aerhydroplane |
Louis Charles Breguet (January 2, 1880 in Paris - May 4, 1955 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France) was a French aircraft designer and builder, one of the early aviation pioneers.
In 1902, Louis married the daughter of painter Girardet, Nelly Henriette...
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| x Félix Amiot | Amiot 143 |
Félix Amiot (Cherbourg, 1894–Paris, 1974) was a French aircraft constructor.
Amiot's first aircraft was built in a Paris garage in 1913, but it was not until 1916, during the First World War, that he became seriously involved in construction. The...
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| x Frank D. Robinson | Robinson R44 |
Franklin D. "Frank" Robinson (born 1930) is an engineer and the founder, president and Chief Executive Officer of Robinson Helicopter Company of Torrance, California. He designed the Robinson R22 helicopter, a popular, light, two-place civilian...
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| Robinson R22 | |||
| Robinson R66 | |||
| x Lockheed Corporation |
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Lockheed Have Blue |
The Lockheed Corporation (originally Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company) was an American aerospace company founded in 1912 which merged with Martin Marietta in 1995 to form Lockheed Martin.
The Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company was established in...
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| Canadair T-33 | |||
| Canadair CF-104 | |||
| x Albert Mooney |
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Aermacchi AL-60 |
Albert W. Mooney or Al (12 April 1906 – 7 May 1986) was a self taught aircraft designer. Al, along with his brother Arthur Mooney were responsible for the startup of the Mooney Aircraft Company which started with the M-18 Mite.
Al Mooney's technical...
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| Mooney M10 | |||
| Mooney Mite M-18 | |||
| Culver Cadet | |||
| PQ-14 Cadet | |||
| x Henry J. Kaiser |
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Hughes H-4 Hercules |
Henry John Kaiser (May 9, 1882 – August 24, 1967) was an American industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding. He established the Kaiser Shipyard which built Liberty ships during World War II, after which he formed...
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| x Howard Hughes |
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Hughes XF-11 |
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer, film director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He gained fame in the late 1920s as a...
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| Hughes H-4 Hercules | |||
| Hughes D-2 | |||
| x John Carver Meadows Frost |
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Avrocar |
John Carver Meadows Frost known as "Jack" (1915 in Walton-on-Thames, England – 9 October 1979 in Auckland, New Zealand) was a British aircraft designer. His primary contributions centred on pioneering supersonic British experimental aircraft and as...
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| Avro CF-100 | |||
| De Havilland Swallow | |||
| Slingsby Hengist | |||
| x Joe Sutter | Boeing 747SP |
Joseph F. "Joe" Sutter, born in 1921, was an engineer for the Boeing Airplane Company and chief engineer for the development of the Boeing 747. Sutter is often referred to as the "father of the 747."
Sutter was born in Seattle, Washington and grew...
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| Boeing 747 | |||
| x Alexei Tupolev | Tupolev Tu-144 |
Alexei Andreyevich Tupolev (Russian: Алексе́й Андре́евич Ту́полев; May 20, 1925–May 12, 2001) was a Soviet aircraft designer who led the development of the first supersonic passenger jet, the Tupolev Tu-144. He also helped design the Buran space...
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| Tu-2000 | |||
| x John Knudsen Northrop |
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XP-79 Flying Ram |
John Knudsen "Jack" Northrop (November 10, 1895 – February 18, 1981) was an American aircraft industrialist. He co-founded the Lockheed Corporation in 1927. He was the founder and eponym of the Northrop Corporation in 1939.
Northrop's first job in...
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| Northrop YB-35 | |||
| Northrop A-17 | |||
| Northrop YB-49 | |||
| P-61 Black Widow | |||
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| x Anthony Fokker |
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Fokker E.III |
Anton Herman Gerard Fokker (6 April 1890 – 23 December 1939) was a pioneer in aviation and a Dutch-American aircraft manufacturer.
Anthony (Tony) Fokker was born in Blitar (then Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia), son of Herman Fokker, a Dutch...
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| Fokker Spin | |||
| Fokker F.VII | |||
| Avro 618 Ten | |||
| Fokker E.II | |||
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| x Herbert Smith | Sopwith Snipe |
Herbert Smith LLP is a London-headquartered law firm, with an Asian practice, plus offices and representation in the Middle East and Europe. The firm was founded in the City of London in 1882 by Norman Herbert Smith and today has 240 partners and 1...
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| x Jim Bede |
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Bede BD-5 |
James R. "Jim" Bede is an aircraft designer, who is often credited with the creation of the modern kitplane market. He has designed well over a dozen aircraft since the 1960s, but a string of business failures have kept most of these designs out of...
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| Grumman American AA-1 | |||
| Bede BD-4 | |||
| Bede BD-6 | |||
| Bede BD-7 | |||
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| x Edward Curtis Wells | B-17 Flying Fortress |
Ed Wells redirects here. For the baseball player, see Ed Wells (baseball)
Edward Curtis Wells (26 August 1910 – July 1986) was senior vice president and served on the board of directors of Boeing Company.
He was born in Boise, Idaho in 1910, and...
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| x Thomas Selfridge |
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AEA Red Wing |
Thomas Etholen Selfridge (February 8, 1882 – September 17, 1908) was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army and the first person to die in a crash of a powered airplane.
Selfridge was born in San Francisco, California, in 1882 and graduated from West...
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| AEA Silver Dart | |||
| x Alexander Lippisch |
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Convair XF-92 |
Alexander Martin Lippisch (November 2, 1894 – February 11, 1976) was a German pioneer of aerodynamics. He made important contributions to the understanding of flying wings, delta wings and the ground effect. His most famous design is the...
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| DFS 194 | |||
| Lippisch Delta IV | |||
| Messerschmitt Me 163 | |||
| Messerschmitt Me 263 | |||
| x Barnes Wallis |
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Vickers Wellesley |
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE FRS, RDI, FRAeS (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979), was an English scientist, engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the RAF in Operation Chastise (the "Dambusters" raid) to...
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| No. 9r | |||
| x AviaBellanca Aircraft |
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8GCBC Scout |
AviaBellanca Aircraft Corporation is an American aircraft design and manufacturing company. Prior to 1983 it was known as the Bellanca Aircraft Company. The company was founded in 1927 by Giuseppe Mario Bellanca.
After Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, the...
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| x Alexander Arkhangelsky | Tupolev SB |
Alexander Alexandrovich Arkhangelsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Арха́нгельский, 1892–1978) was an aircraft designer and doctor of technical sciences.
He graduated from MVTU in 1918. During his studies he worked at the aerodynamic laboratory...
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| Archangelski Ar-2 | |||
| x David Keith-Lucas |
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Short Sherpa |
David Keith-Lucas CBE (25 March 1911 – 6 April 1997) was an aeronautical engineer.
David Keith-Lucas was one of the sons of Keith Lucas, who invented the first aeronautical compass. He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and at Gonville and...
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| Short SB.1 | |||
| x Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov | Polikarpov I-153 |
Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Полика́рпов) (July 8, 1892 - July 30, 1944) was a Soviet aircraft designer, known as "King of Fighters". He designed the I-15 series of fighters, and the I-16 Ishak (Russian: ишак...
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| Polikarpov I-5 | |||
| x Nevil Shute | Airspeed AS 6 Envoy |
Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 1899 - 12 January 1960) was both a popular novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used Nevil Shute as his pen name, and his full name in his engineering career, in order to protect his engineering career...
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| Airspeed Viceroy | |||
| Airspeed Ferry | |||
| x Horten brothers |
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Horten Ho 229 |
Walter (13 November 1913 - 9 December 1998 Baden-Baden) and Reimar Horten (12 March 1915 - 14 March 1994 Villa General Belgrano, Argentina), sometimes credited as the Horten Brothers, were German aircraft pilots and enthusiasts. Though they had...
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| x R. J. Mitchell |
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Supermarine Stranraer |
Reginald Joseph Mitchell CBE, FRAeS, (20 May 1895 - 11 June 1937) was an aeronautical engineer, best known for his design of the Supermarine Spitfire.
R.J. Mitchell was born at 115 Congleton Road, Butt Lane, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England. After...
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| Supermarine Walrus | |||
| Supermarine S.6B | |||
| Supermarine Spitfire | |||
| Supermarine Spitfire variants | |||
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| x Beagle Aircraft |
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Scottish Aviation Bulldog |
Beagle Aircraft Limited was a British light aircraft manufacturer of types such as the Airedale, Bassett, Husky and Pup. It had factories at Rearsby in Leicestershire and Shoreham in Sussex. The company was dissolved in 1969.
The British Executive &...
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| x Messerschmitt |
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Avia S-199 |
Messerschmitt AG was a famous German aircraft manufacturer, known primarily for its World War II fighter aircraft, notably the Bf 109 and Me 262. The company survived in the post-war era, undergoing a number of mergers and changing its name from...
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| x Jean Delemontez | Jodel D11 |
Jean Délémontez (born June 9, 1918) was a French aircraft designer. He was born in Lyon. He was best known for his work with his father-in-law, Édouard Joly, on the Jodel range of light aircraft and his collaboration with Pierre Robin on the Avions...
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| Jodel D9 | |||
| x Pierre Mercier | Lioré et Olivier LeO 451 |
Pierre Ernest Mercier (died 1944-06-11) was a French aeronautical engineer. A former student of the École Polytechnique, he invented and patented a type of cowling for radial engines. He joined aircraft manufacturer Lioré-et-Olivier (later SNCASE)...
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| x Sidney Camm |
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Hawker Sea Hawk |
Sir Sydney Camm, CBE, FRAeS (5 August 1893 – 12 March 1966) was an English aeronautical engineer who contributed to many Hawker aircraft designs, from the biplanes of the 1920s to jet fighters. One particularly notable aircraft he designed is the...
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| Hawker P.V.4 | |||
| Hawker Sea Fury | |||
| Hawker P.1127 | |||
| Hawker Hind | |||
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| x Alexander Kartveli |
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P-47 Thunderbolt |
Alexander Kartveli (Georgian: ალექსანდრე ქართველიშვილი) 1896-1974, born Kartvelishvili) was an aircraft engineer and a pioneer of American aviation.
Kartveli was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, then in Russian Empire. He graduated from the Gymnasium in...
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| F-84 Thunderjet | |||
| F-105 Thunderchief | |||
| Seversky P-35 | |||
| Republic XF-103 | |||
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| x Claudius Dornier | Dornier Do X |
Claude (Claudius) Honoré Desiré Dornier born in Kempten im Allgäu (May 14, 1884 - December 5, 1969) was a German airplane builder and founder of Dornier GmbH. His legacy remains in the few aircraft named after him, including the Dornier Do 18 and...
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| Dornier Do H | |||
| x Ilyushin |
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Ilyushin Il-76 |
Ilyushin (Russian: Илью́шин), or Ilyushin Design Bureau is a Russian design bureau and aircraft manufacturer, founded by Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin. Ilyushin was established under the Soviet Union. Its operations began on January 13, 1933, by...
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