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Also Known As Alexey Tupolev
Born May 20, 1925 • Moscow • Soviet Union
Died May 12, 2001 (aged 75) • Moscow • Russia
Subjects Of Study airplane • bomber

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Andrey N. Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer, 1968.
Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev
Soviet aircraft designer
Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin
Soviet aircraft designer
Dornier, Claudius
Claudius Dornier
German engineer
Geoffrey de Havilland
British aircraft designer
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev
Soviet aircraft designer
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian scientist
Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev
Sergei Korolev
Soviet scientist
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
V-22
Richard Ten Eyck
American industrial designer
John Knudsen Northrop, American aeronautical designer, 1949.
John Knudsen Northrop
American engineer
Focke-Wulf Fw 190, German fighter plane of World War II.
Kurt Tank
German aircraft designer and test pilot
Bell Jet Ranger 206-B
Charles Wilfred Butler
American industrial designer
Leroy Randle Grumman
American engineer
Sir Barnes Wallis
British military engineer
Messerschmitt, 1941
Willy Messerschmitt
German engineer
Farman, Henri
Henri Farman
French pioneer aviator and airplane manufacturer
Donald Douglas, 1970
Donald Douglas
American aircraft designer
Junkers, Hugo
Hugo Junkers
German aircraft designer
Sir Frederick Handley Page
Sir Frederick Handley Page
British aircraft designer
Maurice Farman, 1909
Maurice Farman
French aviator and aircraft designer