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Born September 22, 1905 • Czechoslovakia
Died February 10, 1964 (aged 58) • Berlin • Germany
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Alexander M. Lippisch
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Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German engineer
A photograph of Igor Sikorsky holding a model aircraft.
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard
American professor and inventor
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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
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Sir Barnes Wallis
British military engineer
Pilcher Hawk
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British engineer
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Samuel Kurtz Hoffman
American engineer
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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
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Ernst Heinrich Heinkel
German aircraft designer
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Orville Wright
American aviator
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Wilbur Wright
American aviator
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer
Jack Parsons
Jack Parsons
American rocket scientist and chemist