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Ausable Club

Club members have included Harvard president James Conant, clergyman Henry Sloane Coffin, aeronautical engineer Jerome Hunsaker, painter Harold Weston, and US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, who blazed a trail up nearby Noonmark Mountain that is still in use.

Falconar Avia

Founded in the 1960s by aeronautical engineer Chris Falconar, the company created a new aircraft fabric process called Hipec.

Gerald Stebelton

After working as an aeronautical engineer and contracting officer for Battelle Memorial Institute, leading negotiating teams in Iran and Germany in the 1960s and '70's, Stebelton earned a law degree and became an assistant prosecuting attorney in Franklin County.

Jurgis Kairys

Jurgis Kairys (born May 6, 1952 in Krasnojarsk, Siberia in Lithuanian family deported after Soviet occupation) is a Lithuanian aerobatic pilot and aeronautical engineer.

Mitsubishi 2MB2

To design an aircraft to meet this requirement, Mitsubishi hired the German designer Alexander Baumann, a professor at Stuttgart University, and former designer of Riesenflugzeug for Zeppelin-Staaken to supervise the design team, with Nobushiro Nakata as chief designer.

Paper plane launched from space

However, the planes' developers, Taduo Toda (see paper plane world records) and fellow enthusiast Shinji Suzuki, an aeronautical engineer and professor at Tokyo University, postponed the attempt after acknowledging it would be all but impossible to track the planes during their week-long journey to Earth, assuming any of them survived the searing descent.

Rolladen-Schneider Flugzeugbau

It originally made rolling doors and shutters and was run by Willi and Walter Schneider based in Egelsbach near Frankfurt, Germany.


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42998 Malinafrank

It is named after Frank Malina, an American aeronautical engineer and painter of the 20th century.

Alexander Yakovlev

Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906–1989), Russian aeronautical engineer and airplane designer

Borden Grammar School

Sir Stanley Hooker CBE, aeronautical engineer who designed the early jet engines, culminating with the Rolls-Royce Pegasus

Castoldi

Mario Castoldi (1888-1968), an Italian aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer

Charles Albert Keeley

Inspired by the work of French chemist and colour theorist Eugene Chevreul, Keeley was a regular performer at the London Royal Polytechnic in the 1860s, which was chaired by distinguished scientist and aeronautical engineer Sir George Cayley.

Colomban Cri-cri

The Colomban Cri-cri (English: the chirp-chirp sound made by a cricket) is the smallest twin-engined manned aircraft in the world, designed in the early 1970s by French aeronautical engineer Michel Colomban.

Domaine du Rayol

Courmes sold the property to aeronautical engineer Henry Potez, who restored the buildings and built a staircase from the pergola down to the sea.

Earthquake bomb

The earthquake bomb, or seismic bomb, was a concept that was invented by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis early in World War II and subsequently developed and used during the war against strategic targets in Europe.

Fighter Mafia

Boyd, defense analysts Tom Christie and Pierre Sprey, and test pilot Col. Everest Riccioni and aeronautical engineer Harry Hillaker formed the core of the self-dubbed "Fighter Mafia" which worked behind the scenes in the late 1960s to pursue a lightweight fighter as an alternative to the F-15.

Geodetic airframe

A geodesic (or geodetic) airframe is a type of construction for the airframes of aircraft developed by British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis in the 1930s.

Georg Hans Madelung

Georg Hans Madelung (born 31 July 1889 in Rostock, died 17 August 1972 in Uffing) was a German academic and aeronautical engineer.

Golden Spike Company

Other advisers include former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, former NASA Space Shuttle manager Wayne Hale, author and aeronautical engineer Homer Hickam, and former governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson.

Habitation Extension Module

They were conceived by a consortium of engineers and scientists led by Mark Hempsell, aeronautical engineer at the University of Bristol.

Iva Kitchell

Kitchell married painter and aeronautical engineer Stokely Webster in 1933.

James Farrar

He was the younger brother of the aeronautical engineer David J. Farrar - references to David appear throughout his published writings - and first cousin of Stewart Farrar.

King's Norton Boys' School

Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton, Chancellor from 1969-97 of Cranfield University, and aeronautical engineer, being Managing Director from 1944-6 of Power Jets, and Director from 1946-8 of the National Gas Turbine Establishment

Lanchester Bay

It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Frederick W. Lanchester, an aeronautical engineer who laid the foundations of modern airfoil theory.

Lancs Industries

As a native of Lancashire, England, Hollingsworth was an employee of British Aircraft Corporation working as an aeronautical engineer who came to the United States in 1966 for an engineering exchange program with Boeing Aircraft.

Leonard S. Hobbs

Leonard S. (Luke) Hobbs (1896 in Carbon County, Wyoming – 1977) was an aeronautical engineer who started in 1920 with the Army Air Service at McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio and later worked for Stromberg Motor Devices Corporation.

The White Diamond

It illustrates the history of aviation and depicts the struggles and triumphs of Graham Dorrington, an aeronautical engineer, who has designed and built a teardrop-shaped airship which he plans to fly over the forest canopies of Guyana.

William J. Kossler Award

The award consists of one certificate for the selected individual or crew and honors the memory of William J. Kossler, a U.S. Coast Guard airman, aeronautical engineer and early advocate of helicopters in USCG operations.

Winnie Byanyima

Following the completion of her training as an aeronautical engineer, Ms. Byanyima worked as a flight engineer for the now-defunct Uganda Airlines.