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Lawrence Dale Bell: Quick Facts

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Born April 5, 1894 • Indiana
Died October 20, 1956 (aged 62) • Buffalo • New York

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Bell, Lawrence
The Bell P-59A Airacomet, the first U.S. jet fighter.
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Ernst Heinrich Heinkel
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John Knudsen Northrop, American aeronautical designer, 1949.
John Knudsen Northrop
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Donald Douglas, 1970
Donald Douglas
American aircraft designer
Andrey N. Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer, 1968.
Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev
Soviet aircraft designer
Messerschmitt, 1941
Willy Messerschmitt
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Hugo Junkers
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Geoffrey de Havilland
British aircraft designer
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Wilbur Wright
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A photograph of Igor Sikorsky holding a model aircraft.
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Glenn L. Martin
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Alexander M. Lippisch
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Focke-Wulf Fw 190, German fighter plane of World War II.
Kurt Tank
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Sir Barnes Wallis
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Claudius Dornier
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Marcel Dassault
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Henri Farman
French aircraft manufacturer
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Louis-Charles Bréguet
French aircraft builder
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev
Soviet aircraft designer
Maurice Farman, 1909
Maurice Farman
French aircraft designer and manufacturer