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Born August 10, 1914 • Perth Amboy • New Jersey
Died December 3, 1973 (aged 59) • Greenwich • Connecticut

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John Knudsen Northrop, American aeronautical designer, 1949.
John Knudsen Northrop
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Donald Douglas, 1970
Donald Douglas
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Lawrence Dale Bell
American aircraft designer
Alexander M. Lippisch
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian scientist
Andrey N. Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer, 1968.
Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev
Soviet aircraft designer
Focke-Wulf Fw 190, German fighter plane of World War II.
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Hanna Reitsch
German aviator
George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Cayley
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Sir Barnes Wallis
British military engineer
Dornier, Claudius
Claudius Dornier
German engineer
Messerschmitt, 1941
Willy Messerschmitt
German engineer
Farman, Henri
Henri Farman
French pioneer aviator and airplane manufacturer
Junkers, Hugo
Hugo Junkers
German aircraft designer
Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin
Soviet aircraft designer
Sir Frederick Handley Page
Sir Frederick Handley Page
British aircraft designer