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This is a list of aerospace engineers, people who were trained in or practiced aerospace engineering. Aerospace engineering is the branch of engineering that concerns aircraft, spacecraft, and related topics. ...
See also List of engineers - for lists of engineers from other disciplines. For a list of engineers see: List of aerospace engineers List of chemical engineers List of civil engineers List of electrical engineers List of industrial engineers List of materials engineers List of mechanical engineers List of inventors List of architects List of urban planners List of scientists List of heroic...
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Michael P. Anderson Michael Phillip Anderson (December 25, 1959 – February 1, 2003) was a Lieutenant Colonel (USAF), a NASA astronaut and the Space Shuttle payload commander of STS-107 (Columbia) who was killed when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the Earths atmosphere. ...
This article is about the former American astronaut. ...
B Frank Barnwell (1880 - August 2, 1938) was an aeronautical engineer, who performed the first powered flight in Scotland and later went on to a career as an aircraft designer. ...
Other people named Mark Bell Mark Bell (disambiguation) Mark Bell (born August 5, 1980 in St. ...
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David M. Brown David M. Brown (April 16, 1956 – February 1, 2003) was a United States Naval Captain, NASA astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist. ...
C Sir Sydney Camm Sir Sydney Camm, FRAeS (1893–March 12, 1966) was an English aeronautical engineer who contributed to many aircraft designs, from the biplanes of the 1920s to jet fighters. ...
Sir George Cayley (27 December 1773 - 15 December 1857) was an exuberant polymath from Brompton-by-Sawdon, near Scarborough in Yorkshire. ...
Roy Chadwick (1893–August 23, 1947) was an aircraft designer for Avro. ...
Roger Chaffee Roger Bruce Chaffee (February 15, 1935 - January 27, 1967) was a U.S. Navy pilot who became an American astronaut in the Apollo program. ...
Apollo 1 is the official name given to the never-flown Apollo/Saturn 204 (AS-204) mission. ...
Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomei (ВладиÌмир ÐиколаÌевич ЧеломеÌй) (June 30, 1914—December 8, 1984) was a Soviet mechanics scientist and rocket engineer. ...
Henri Marie Coandă (June 7, 1886 – November 25, 1972) (IPA: /ÉÊi maÊi kwandÉ™/) was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer and the builder of worlds first jet powered aircraft, the Coanda-1910. ...
The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA, TYO: 7661) is a major aerospace and defense corporation, originally founded by William Edward Boeing. ...
Glenn H. Curtiss at the Grande Semaine dAviation in France in 1909 Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. ...
Kalpana Chawla (Hindi: कलà¥â€à¤ªà¤¨à¤¾ चावला)(Punjabi:ਕਲਪਨਾ ਚਾਵਲਾ) (7 March 1962 – 1 February 2003), was an Indian-American astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist. ...
Laurel Blair Salton Clark (March 10, 1961 – February 1, 2003) was a medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle mission specialist of STS-107 (Columbia) who was killed when the shuttle disintegrated after re-entry into the Earths atmosphere. ...
D Santos-Dumont in his trademark Panama hat. ...
Marcel Dassault, born Marcel Bloch, (Paris, 22 January 1892 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 17 April 1986) was a French aircraft industrialist. ...
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Claude (Claudius) Honoré Desiré Dornier born in 1884 and died 1969. ...
Iain Dowie, (born January 9, 1965 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England), is a football manager and coach, and former professional football player and Northern Ireland international. ...
Sir George H Dowty (1901-1975) was a British inventor and businessman. ...
E Joseph Joe Henry Engle (born August 26, 1932 in Dickinson County, Kansas) is a former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Air Force colonel. ...
Gene Kranz, uncharacteristically wearing a dark vest (courtesy of NASA) Eugene F. Gene Kranz (17 August 1933–) is a former NASA flight director. ...
F Sir Roy Fedden was an engineer who designed most of Bristol Engine Companys successful aircraft engine designs. ...
The Bristol Aeroplane Company (formerly British and Colonial Aeroplane Company) began building primitive Bristol Boxkites in a former tram shed and became famous for the production of the war-time Blenhein and Beaufighter, the Brabazon airliner prototypes, the Britannia and Freighter and the Belvedere and Sycamore helicopters. ...
Anton Flettner (November 1, 1885 – December 29, 1961) was a German aviation engineer and inventor. ...
Anton Herman Gerard Anthony Fokker (April 6, 1890 – December 23, 1939), was born in Kediri (Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia) and became a Dutch aircraft manufacturer. ...
Henry Phillip Folland (1889–1994) was an English aviation engineer and aircraft designer who was the chief designer at Gloster Aircraft Company until he bought British Marine Aircraft Ltd. ...
The Sequoia F.8L Falco is a lightweight 2-seater aerobatic aircraft, sold in kit form for self-assembly by the Sequoia Aircraft company of Richmond, Virginia. ...
Aermacchi is an Italian aircraft manufacturer founded in 1913 at Varese in north-western Lombardy, 55 km north of Milan. ...
G - Alfred Gessow, helicopter expert
- Ross Gilmore (born 1984) Associate of the Royal Aeronautical Society, inventor of 'Gilmore Flaps'
- Valentin Glushko
- Robert Goddard
- Sir Arthur Gouge (1890-1962) President of the Royal Aeronautical Society
- Tadeusz Góra
- Jay Greene
- Giuseppe Gabrielli (1903-1987) - Italian aircraft designer
Arthur Greensite - Covair Div. of General Dynamics, wrote Elements of modern control theory For other uses, see Helicopter (disambiguation). ...
Valentin Petrovich Glushko (born September 2, 1908 in Odessa, Ukraine, died January 10, 1989) was a Russian engineer and rocketry pioneer. ...
Robert Goddard Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was one of the pioneers of modern rocketry. ...
Tadeusz Góra (b. ...
Jay Greene is a retired NASA engineer. ...
Giuseppe Gabrielli (February 26, 1903 - November 29, 1987) was an Italian aeronautics engineer. ...
H Geoffrey de Havilland (left) with Frederick Handley Page. ...
Harry George Hawker (22 January 1889–12 July 1921) was an Australian aviation pioneer and co-founder of Hawker Aviation, the firm responsible a long series of successful military aircraft, including the Fury, Hurricane, Hunter and Harrier. ...
Edward Henry Heinemann, (born 14 March 1908, died 26 November 1991) was a noted military aircraft designer for Douglas Aircraft. ...
Ernst Heinkel (January 24, 1888 - January 30, 1958) was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer. ...
Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr. ...
Peter K. Homer (born 1961) of Southwest Harbor, Maine, won $200,000 from NASA for his entry in the Astronaut Glove Challenge. ...
For the Welsh murderer, see Howard Hughes (murderer). ...
Rick D. Husband (larger image) Richard Douglas Husband (July 12, 1957 – February 1, 2003) was an astronaut and the space shuttle commander of STS-107 (Columbia) who was killed when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the Earths atmosphere. ...
I Ilan Ramon (Hebrew: ×ילן רמון) (June 20, 1954 – February 1, 2003) was a combat pilot in the Israeli Air Force and later the first Israeli astronaut. ...
I According to what Muslims believe to be the final revealed Word of God (the Quran), the biological father of Mary was Imraan. ...
J Kelly Johnson participated in the design of the Lockheed L-10 Electra, testing a model of the design in the wind tunnel of the University of Michigan. ...
K Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (Tamil: à®….ப.ஜ. அபà¯à®¤à¯à®²à¯ கலாமà¯; Hindi: अवà¥à¤² पकिर जैनà¥à¤²à¤¾à¤…बदीन अबà¥à¤¦à¥à¤² कलाम; Urdu: ابو الÙقیر زین العبدین عبدل کلام), born October 15, 1931, Tamil Nadu, India, usually referred to as Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam ^, is the current President of India. ...
Theodore von Kármán (Szőllőskislaki Kármán Tódor) (May 11, 1881 – May 6, 1963) was an engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics during the seminal era in the 1940s and 1950s. ...
Korolev was key in the design and launch of Sputnik 1, the first ever artificial satellite Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (Серге́й Па́влович Королёв) (January 12, 1907 - January 14, 1966) was the...
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L Samuel Pierpont Langley. ...
Otto Lilienthal Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 – 10 August 1896), the German Glider King, was a pioneer of human aviation. ...
Alexander Lippisch earned his PhD in 1943 at the University of Heidelberg. ...
Per Lindstrand (right) with Richard Branson and the Virgin Pacific Flyer capsule in Miyakonojo, Japan Per Lindstrand (born August 8, 1948, Sweden) is an aeronautical engineer, pilot and adventurer who has lived in Oswestry, England, since 1978. ...
Glynn Lunney as manager of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1974) Glynn S. Lunney (born November 27, 1936) is a retired NASA engineer. ...
M Paul MacCready (born September 25, 1925 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American aeronautical engineer. ...
Ernst Mach Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 – February 19, 1916) was an Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher and is the namesake for the Mach number and the optical illusion known as Mach bands. ...
Elizabeth Muriel Gregory Elsie MacGill (March 27, 1905 - November 4, 1980), made famous as the Queen of the Hurricanes, was a aeronautical engineer during World War II who did much to make Canada a powerhouse of airplane construction during her years at Canada Car and Foundry in Fort William, Ontario. ...
Frederick Marriott (1805-1884) was an early aviation pioneer and creator of the which was the first unmanned aircraft to fly under its own power in the United States. ...
Mark D. Maughmer is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. ...
Wilhelm Emil Messerschmitt (June 26, 1898 – September 15, 1978) (known as Willi or Willy) was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer. ...
Reginald Joseph Mitchell (20 May 1895-11 June 1937) was an aeronautical engineer, most notable for his design of the Supermarine Spitfire. ...
Jacques Étienne Montgolfier For the indie pop band, see The Montgolfier Brothers. ...
William C. McCool William Cameron Willie McCool (September 23, 1961 – February 1, 2003) was an United States Navy Commander, NASA astronaut and the Space Shuttle pilot of Columbia mission STS-107 who was killed when the craft disintegrated after re-entry into the Earths atmosphere. ...
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O Oberth (in front) with fellow ABMA employees. ...
Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain (December 14, 1911 – March 13, 1998) was one of the inventors of jet propulsion. ...
P Richard Pearse Richard William Pearse (3 December 1877 — 29 July 1953), a New Zealand farmer and inventor, performed pioneering experiments in aviation. ...
is the 90th day of the year (91st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...
William Edward Willoughby Petter (1908-1968) known as Teddy was an English aircraft designer. ...
David Phillips was born on May 23, 1992 who attends Hillside Student Community with Joe Sullam he likes to play Dance Dance Revolution and knows alot about things that Joe usually needs to know. ...
Percy Sinclair Pilcher (January 1866 — 2 October 1899) was a British inventor and pioneer aviator who, in one of the big what if events of history, could well have become the first person to achieve controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight well before the Wright brothers had he not been...
Herman Potočnik (pseudonym Hermann Noordung) (December 12, 1892 - August 27, 1929) was a Slovene rocket engineer and pioneer of cosmonautics (astronautics). ...
Ludwig Prandtl (4 February 1875 - 15 August 1953) was a German physicist. ...
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R Dr. Judith Arlene Resnik (April 5, 1949 – January 28, 1986) was an American astronaut who died at the age of 36 in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster during the launch of the mission STS-51-L. Resnik was born in Akron, Ohio and attended Hebrew school. ...
Osborne Reynolds Osborne Reynolds (23 August 1842–21 February 1912) was a British fluid dynamics engineer. ...
Benjamin Robert Rich (June 18, 1925 – January 5, 1995) was the second director of Lockheeds Skunk Works from 1975 to 1991, succeeding its founder, Kelly Johnson. ...
Lockheed/BAE/Northrop F-35 Lockheed Trident missile C-130 Hercules; in production since the 1950s, now as the C-130J Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is an aerospace manufacturer formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. ...
A modern Skunk Works project leverages an older: LASRE atop the SR-71 Blackbird. ...
The Lockheed SR-71, unofficially known as the Blackbird, is a long-range, advanced, strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed A-12 and YF-12A aircraft by Lockheeds Skunk works, which was also responsible for the U-2 and many other advanced aircraft. ...
The United States Air Forces F-117A Nighthawk is the worlds first operational aircraft designed to exploit low-observable stealth technology. ...
Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe (April 26, 1877 – January 4, 1958) was a pioneer British pilot and aircraft manufacturer, and founder in 1910 of the Avro company. ...
Dr. Jan Roskam is the emeritus Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Kansas. ...
Elbert Leander Burt Rutan (born June 17, 1943 in Estacada, Oregon) is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft. ...
S For another meanings and similar spellings, see Sikorsky. ...
The Sukhoi Su-27 (NATO reporting name Flanker) is a Russian fighter aircraft designed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau (SDB). ...
Su-47 Berkut The Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut (Russian: Су-47 Беркут - golden eagle), designated S-32 and/or S-37 during initial development, is an experimental supersonic jet fighter developed by the Sukhoi Corporation. ...
Sopwith Triplane Sopwith Triplane in the Aero Space Museum of Calgary. ...
Sir Thomas Octave Murdock Sopwith (January 18, 1888 - January 27, 1989) was a British aviation pioneer as well as a celebrated yachtsman. ...
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Sukhoi (pronounced [suk-oi]) (Сухой) is a major Russian military fighter aircraft manufacturer. ...
Victor G. Szebehely (1921 - September 13, 1997) was a key figure in the development and success of the Apollo program. ...
Raja Rajan was a king who ruled a part of Tamil country. ...
Nevil Shute (London, January 17, 1899 – Melbourne, January 12, 1960) (full name Nevil Shute Norway) was one of the most popular novelists of the mid-20th century. ...
T Richard H. Truly (born November 12, 1937) is a retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy, former astronaut, and was the 8th Administrator of NASA from 1989 to 1992. ...
Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev (Russian: ; November 10, 1888 – December 23, 1972) was a pioneering Russian aircraft designer. ...
Tupolev (Russian: Туполев) is a Russian aerospace and defence company. ...
The Leading American Theoretical Aerodynamicist In the Golden Age of Aviation // Dr. Theodore Theodorsen was born in Sandefjord, Norway on January 8, 1897 to parents Ole Christian Theodorsen, a chief engineer in the Norwegian merchant marine and Andrea Larsen. ...
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V Aurel Vlaicu 1882-1913 Aurel Vlaicu (born November 19, 1882, in Bintinti, near Orastie, Hunedoara County, died September 13, 1913, near Banesti, Campina) was a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor and early pilot. ...
Traian Vuias flying machine (March 18, 1906) Traian Vuia (August 17, 1872 - September 3, 1950) was a Romanian inventor, designed and built a self-propelling heavier-than-air aircraft. ...
W Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, Kt, CBE, FRS, RDI, commonly known as Barnes Wallis, (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979) was an English scientist, engineer and inventor. ...
Wing Commander K H Wallis MBE, DEng (hc), CEng, FRAeS, FSETP, PhD (hc), RAF (Retd) to give him his full title is one of the leading exponents of autogyros. ...
An autogyro is a type of rotorcraft invented by Juan de la Cierva in 1919, making its first successful flight on January 9, 1923 at Cuatro Vientos Airfield in Madrid, Spain. ...
Hellmuth Walter (August 26, 1900 – December 16, 1980) was a German engineer who pioneered research into rocket engines and gas turbines. ...
Richard Whitcomb is an aeronautical engineer. ...
Frank Whittle speaking to employees of the Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory (Now known as the NASA Glenn Research Center), USA, in 1946 Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, FRS, Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907–9 August 1996) was an English Royal Air Force officer and is seen as the...
Stanisław Wigura Stanisław Wigura (b. ...
First flight, December 17, 1903. ...
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Y Alexander Yakovlev may refer to: Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, a prominent supporter of glasnost and ally of Mikhael Gorbachev in the 1980s. ...
For other uses, see Yakovlev (disambiguation). ...
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