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Also Known As Glenn Luther Martin
Born January 17, 1886 • Iowa
Died December 4, 1955 (aged 69) • Baltimore • Maryland
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Glenn Hammond Curtiss.
Glenn Hammond Curtiss
American engineer
Geoffrey de Havilland
British aircraft designer
Sopwith, Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch
Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith
British aircraft designer
Orville Wright
American aviator
Wilbur Wright
American aviator
Ernst Heinrich Heinkel
German aeronautical engineer
John Knudsen Northrop, American aeronautical designer, 1949.
John Knudsen Northrop
American engineer
Leroy Randle Grumman
American engineer
Donald Douglas, 1970
Donald Douglas
American aircraft designer
Bell, Lawrence
Lawrence Dale Bell
American aircraft designer
Fieseler, Gerhard
Gerhard Fieseler
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 pioneer aviator and airplane manufacturer
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