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Also Known As Marcel Bloch
Born January 22, 1892 • Paris • France
Died April 18, 1986 (aged 94) • Paris • France
Andrey N. Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer, 1968.
Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev
Soviet aircraft designer
Messerschmitt, 1941
Willy Messerschmitt
German engineer
Louis-Charles Bréguet
French aircraft builder
Wilbur Wright
American aviator
Orville Wright
American aviator
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
John Knudsen Northrop, American aeronautical designer, 1949.
John Knudsen Northrop
American engineer
Sir Barnes Wallis
British military engineer
Donald Douglas, 1970
Donald Douglas
American aircraft designer
Junkers, Hugo
Hugo Junkers
German aircraft designer
Ernst Heinrich Heinkel
German aeronautical engineer
Geoffrey de Havilland
British aircraft designer
Bell, Lawrence
Lawrence Dale Bell
American aircraft designer
Louis Blériot standing before his Type XI monoplane, which he flew across the English Channel on July 25, 1909.
Louis Blériot
French aviator
Farman, Henri
Henri Farman
French pioneer aviator and airplane manufacturer
Maurice Farman, 1909
Maurice Farman
French aviator and aircraft designer
Pierre Latécoère
French aircraft manufacturer
William E. Boeing
American businessman
Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes
American manufacturer, aviator, and motion-picture producer
Olive Ann Beech
American businesswoman