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Born September 22, 1905 • Czechoslovakia
Died February 10, 1964 (aged 58) • Berlin • Germany
Orville Wright
American aviator
Wilbur Wright
American aviator
Alexander M. Lippisch
German-American aerodynamicist
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German-born American engineer
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard
American professor and inventor
Charles Lanier Lawrance
American aeronautical engineer
George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Cayley
British inventor and scientist
Sir Barnes Wallis
British military engineer
Pilcher Hawk
Percy Sinclair Pilcher
British engineer
Samuel Kurtz Hoffman
American engineer
Hermann Oberth
German scientist
Dornberger, Walter Robert
Walter Robert Dornberger
German engineer
Lilienthal glider
Otto Lilienthal
German aeronautical engineer
Dornier, Claudius
Claudius Dornier
German engineer
Messerschmitt, 1941
Willy Messerschmitt
German engineer
Eckener, 1931
Hugo Eckener
German aeronautical engineer
Ernst Heinrich Heinkel
German aeronautical engineer
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer
Jack Parsons
Jack Parsons
American rocket scientist and chemist