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Born February 24, 1898 • Germany
Died June 5, 1983 (aged 85) • Munich • Germany

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Focke-Wulf Fw 190, German fighter plane of World War II.
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Messerschmitt, 1941
Willy Messerschmitt
German engineer
Junkers, Hugo
Hugo Junkers
German aircraft designer
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Ernst Heinrich Heinkel
German aircraft designer
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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Sir Barnes Wallis
British military engineer
Donald Douglas, 1970
Donald Douglas
American aircraft designer
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev
Soviet aircraft designer
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Geoffrey de Havilland
British aircraft designer
Bell, Lawrence
Lawrence Dale Bell
American aircraft designer
Fieseler, Gerhard
Gerhard Fieseler
German aviator
Dornier, Claudius
Claudius Dornier
German engineer
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Alexander M. Lippisch
German-American aerodynamicist
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Orville Wright
American aviator
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Wilbur Wright
American aviator
A photograph of Igor Sikorsky holding a model aircraft.
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran
American pilot
V-22
Richard Ten Eyck
American industrial designer
Bell Jet Ranger 206-B
Charles Wilfred Butler
American industrial designer
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Marcel Dassault
French industrialist