Engineers who designed aircraft and engines, from the helicopter and the jet engine to the Boeing 747 and the Hawker fighters. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the person an aircraft engineer, designer or aeronautical engineer. It excludes aviation entrepreneurs and airline founders. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia: Igor Sikorsky
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Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (25 May 1889-26 October 1972) was a Russian-American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
Wikipedia: Frank Whittle
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Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle (1 June 1907-8 August 1996) was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer.
Wikipedia: Joe Sutter
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Joseph Frederick Sutter (March 21, 1921, August 30, 2016) was an American engineer for the Boeing Airplane Company and manager of the design team for the Boeing 747 under Malcolm T.
Wikipedia: Hugo Junkers
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Hugo Junkers (3 February 1859-3 February 1935) was a German aircraft engineer and aircraft designer who pioneered the design of all-metal airplanes and flying wings.
Corradino D'Ascanio (Wikipedia)
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General Corradino D'Ascanio (1 February 1891 in Popoli, Pescara, 6 August 1981 in Pisa) was an Italian aeronautical engineer.
Sydney Camm (Wikipedia)
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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.
Nikolay Zhukovsky (scientist) (Wikipedia)
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Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky (Russian: Никола́й Его́рович Жуко́вский, IPA: [ʐʊˈkofskʲɪj]; 17 January [O.S.
Robert Esnault-Pelterie biography (Wikipedia)
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Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ albɛʁ ʃaʁl eno pɛltəʁi]; 8 November 1881-6 December 1957) was a French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist.
C. Donald Bateman biography (Wikipedia)
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Charles Donald Bateman (8 March 1932-21 May 2023), often known as Don Bateman, was a Canadian electrical engineer and the inventor of the Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS), a device that is responsible for a marked decline in controlled flight into terrain accidents, such as the Mount Erebus disaster.
George de Bothezat (Wikipedia)
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George de Bothezat (Romanian: Gheorghe Botezatu, Russian: Георгий Александрович Ботезат; 7 June 1882-1 February 1940) was a Romanian-Russian American engineer, businessman, and pioneer of helicopter flight.
Kelly Johnson (engineer) (Wikipedia)
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Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson (February 27, 1910, December 21, 1990) was an American aeronautical and systems engineer.
Hans von Ohain (Wikipedia)
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the designer of the first aircraft to use a turbojet engine
Frank Halford (Wikipedia)
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was an English aircraft engine designer
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