Frederick B. Rentschler

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Frederick B. Rentschler

American businessman

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…the creation of the businessman Frederick B. Rentschler. In 1925, the machine-tool maker Pratt and Whitney provided Rentschler with start-up funds, idle plant space, and a company name to create an aircraft engine manufacturer. The new company’s air-cooled Wasp radial piston engine, completed by the end of that year, proved…
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…the creation of the businessman Frederick B. Rentschler. In 1925, the machine-tool maker Pratt and Whitney provided Rentschler with start-up funds, idle plant space, and a company name to create an aircraft engine manufacturer. The new company’s air-cooled Wasp radial piston engine, completed by the end of that year, proved…
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