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Born February 24, 1898 • Germany • (Birthday in 2 days)
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
Ernst Heinrich Heinkel
German aeronautical engineer
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
Sir Barnes Wallis
British military engineer
Donald Douglas, 1970
Donald Douglas
American aircraft designer
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev
Soviet aircraft designer
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
Alexander M. Lippisch
German-American aerodynamicist
Wilbur Wright
American aviator
Orville Wright
American aviator
Igor Sikorsky
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
Marcel Dassault
French industrialist