Aircraft designer
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'Aircraft designer' can be a company or an indidual that designs airplanes.
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| Northrop Corporation |
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Aircraft manufacturer | F-5 Freedom Fighter |
The Northrop Corporation was a leading aircraft manufacturer of the United States from its formation in 1939 until its merger with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman in 1994. The company is known for their development of the flying wing design,...
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| Boeing |
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Company | E-6 Mercury |
The Boeing Company is a major aerospace and defense corporation, originally founded by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years. It merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Its international headquarters has been in...
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| Aircraft manufacturer | 2018 Bomber | |||
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| Boeing Commercial Airplanes |
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Company | 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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| Aircraft manufacturer | Boeing 767-200 | |||
| Aircraft Owner | Boeing 767-300 | |||
| Employer | Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter | |||
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| Hans Multhopp | Person | 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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| Clarence Johnson |
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Person | 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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| Deceased Person | F-104 Starfighter | |||
| Film actor | Lockheed XF-90 | |||
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| Burt Rutan |
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Person | Rutan Long-EZ |
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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| Film actor | Rutan VariEze | |||
| Rutan Quickie | ||||
| Rutan Defiant | ||||
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| Alexander Graham Bell |
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Person | AEA Cygnet |
Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 – 2 August 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor and innovator who is widely credited with the invention of the telephone. His father, grandfather and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and...
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| Deceased Person | AEA Silver Dart | |||
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| Roy Chadwick |
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Person | Avro Lancastrian |
Roy Chadwick, CBE, FRAeS (April 30 1893 – August 23 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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| Deceased Person | Avro Shackleton | |||
| Avro York | ||||
| Avro Tudor | ||||
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| Lockheed Martin |
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Company | EC-130 Commando Solo |
Lockheed Martin is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. It is headquartered in Bethesda, an unincorporated area in Montgomery...
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| Aircraft manufacturer | 2018 Bomber | |||
| Rocket Manufacturer | Orion | |||
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| Glenn Curtiss |
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Person | AEA June Bug |
Glenn Hammond Curtiss (21 May 1878 – 23 July 1930) was an American aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. In 1930, he was awarded a Medal of Honor for his significant aviation...
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| Deceased Person | Curtiss JN-4 | |||
| Inventor | AEA Silver Dart | |||
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| Zygmunt Puławski |
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Person | 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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| Dmitry Grigorovich |
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Person | Grigorovich M-9 |
Dmitry Vasilyevich Grigorovich (March 19 (N.S. March 31), 1822, Simbirsk - December 22, 1899 (N.S. January 3, 1900), Petersburg) was a Russia writer.
Dmitry Grigorovich graduated from an engineering school and Imperial Academy of Arts in...
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| Gippsland Aeronautics |
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Company | Gippsland GA8 |
Gippsland Aeronautics are an Australia 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.
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| Aircraft manufacturer | Gippsland GA200 | |||
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| Arthur M. Young | Person | Bell 47 |
Arthur Middleton Young (November 3, 1905, Paris, France–May 30, 1995, Berkeley, California) was inventor of the Bell-Hiller stabilizer and designer of the first Bell helicopter, as well as a cosmologist, philosopher and author. He founded the ...
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| Kurt Tank |
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Person | 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 Focke...
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| Deceased Person | HAL HF-24 Marut | |||
| Focke-Wulf Ta 183 | ||||
| FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II | ||||
| Focke Wulf Ta 400 | ||||
| Sukhoi |
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Company | Shenyang J-11 |
Sukhoi (Сухой) is a major Russia 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 is comprised of the JSC Sukhoi...
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| Aircraft manufacturer | Sukhoi Su-30MKK | |||
| Employer | Sukhoi Superjet 100 | |||
| Secondo Campini | Person | 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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| Igor Sikorsky |
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Person | Sikorsky Ilya Muromets |
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (25 May, 1889 – 26 October, 1972) was a Russian-American pioneer of aviation who designed and flew the world's first multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft, developed the first of Pan American Airways' ocean-conquering flying...
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| Deceased Person | Sikorsky R-4 | |||
| Company Founder | Sikorsky VS-44 | |||
| Inventor | Sikorsky S-42 | |||
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| John Thorp | Person | 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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| PZL |
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Aircraft manufacturer | 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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| Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich |
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Person | 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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| Deceased Person | Grigorovich M-9 | |||
| Geoffrey de Havilland |
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Person | Airco DH.9 |
Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, OM, CBE, 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.
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| Deceased Person | Airco DH.2 | |||
| Aircraft manufacturer | De Havilland Tiger Moth | |||
| Company | Airco DH.1 | |||
| Employer | Airco DH.6 | |||
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| Joseph Smith | Person | Supermarine Swift |
Joseph ("Joe") Smith 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 Supermarine Spitfire.
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| William Boeing |
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Person | B & W Seaplane |
William Edward Boeing (October 1, 1881 – September 27, 1956) 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 made a fortune developing...
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| Deceased Person | Boeing Model 6 | |||
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| General Aircraft Ltd | Aircraft manufacturer | 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 glider and light transport aircraft.
General...
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| Eurocopter Group |
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Company | 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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| Aircraft manufacturer | Z-9 | |||
| Employer | Changhe Z-11 | |||
| Louis Charles Breguet | Person | 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 pioneer.
In 1905, with his brother Jacques, and under the guidance of Charles...
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| Félix Amiot | Person | 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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| Frank D. Robinson | Person | Robinson R44 |
Franklin D. "Frank" Robinson (born 1930) is 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 aircraft in the...
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| Robinson R66 | ||||
