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Born September 26, 1887
Died October 30, 1979 (aged 92) • England
A photograph of Igor Sikorsky holding a model aircraft.
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Messerschmitt, 1941
Willy Messerschmitt
German engineer
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Alexander M. Lippisch
German-American aerodynamicist
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
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Geoffrey de Havilland
British aircraft designer
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Wilbur Wright
American aviator
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Orville Wright
American aviator
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian scientist
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
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Jerome C. Hunsaker
American aeronautical engineer
Focke-Wulf Fw 190, German fighter plane of World War II.
Kurt Tank
German aircraft designer and test pilot
Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev
Sergei Korolev
Soviet scientist
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Charles Lanier Lawrance
American aeronautical engineer
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Marcel Dassault
French industrialist
Pilcher Hawk
Percy Sinclair Pilcher
British engineer
Farman, Henri
Henri Farman
French aircraft manufacturer
Donald Douglas, 1970
Donald Douglas
American aircraft designer
Junkers, Hugo
Hugo Junkers
German aircraft designer
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Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin
Soviet aircraft designer