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Also Known As Glenn Luther Martin
Born January 17, 1886 • Iowa
Died December 4, 1955 (aged 69) • Baltimore • Maryland
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British aircraft designer
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Orville Wright
American aviator
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American aviator
A photograph of Igor Sikorsky holding a model aircraft.
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American engineer
Donald Douglas, 1970
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Bell, Lawrence
Lawrence Dale Bell
American aircraft designer
Fieseler, Gerhard
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German aviator
Andrey N. Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer, 1968.
Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev
Soviet aircraft designer
Dornier, Claudius
Claudius Dornier
German engineer
Anthony Fokker
Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker
Dutch aircraft manufacturer
Messerschmitt, 1941
Willy Messerschmitt
German engineer
Farman, Henri
Henri Farman
French aircraft manufacturer
Junkers, Hugo
Hugo Junkers
German aircraft designer
Sir Frederick Handley Page
Sir Frederick Handley Page
British aircraft designer
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Ernst Heinrich Heinkel
German aircraft designer
Maurice Farman, 1909
Maurice Farman
French aircraft designer and manufacturer