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Born January 2, 1880 • Paris • France
Died May 4, 1955 (aged 75) • Paris • France
Founder Air France
Wilbur Wright
American aviator
Orville Wright
American aviator
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
Glenn Hammond Curtiss.
Glenn Hammond Curtiss
American engineer
Marcel Dassault
French industrialist
Maurice Farman, 1909
Maurice Farman
French aviator and aircraft designer
Pierre Latécoère
French aircraft manufacturer
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran
American pilot
Watch the “Gossamer Albatross” the first human-powered plane crossing the English Channel in 1979
Paul Beattie MacCready
American aeronautical engineer
Andrey N. Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer, 1968.
Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev
Soviet aircraft designer
John Knudsen Northrop, American aeronautical designer, 1949.
John Knudsen Northrop
American engineer
Alberto Santos-Dumont, 1931.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Brazilian aviator
Sir Barnes Wallis
British military engineer
Sir Alliott Verdon Roe
British aircraft designer
Messerschmitt, 1941
Willy Messerschmitt
German engineer
Eckener, 1931
Hugo Eckener
German aeronautical engineer
Donald Douglas, 1970
Donald Douglas
American aircraft designer
Junkers, Hugo
Hugo Junkers
German aircraft designer

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