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AmeriPlanes Mitchell Wing A-10

The aircraft were designed by Don Mitchell and were produced by a number of companies, the last being AmeriPlanes of Truro, Iowa.

Kawasaki Ki-3

Takeo Doi the future chief designer for Kawasaki, worked as Vogt's assistant on the project; Vogt later went on to become chief designer for Blohm & Voss.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3

Despite the teething problems with the MiG-3, in 1941, one of the aircraft's designers—Mikhail Gurevich—was awarded the State Stalin Prize for his contribution to Soviet aviation.

Moyes Tempest

The Moyes Tempest, also referred to as the Bailey/Moyes Tempest, is an Australian high-wing, strut-braced, single-seat, microlift glider that was designed by Bob Bailey of Florida, United States and produced by Moyes Microlights of Waverley, New South Wales, Australia.

Semyon Lavochkin

While at TsAGI, he his colleagues included the French seaplane designer Paul Richard, as well as Mikhail Gurevich and Nikolai Kamov.

Stinson Model O

Following discussions between Yerex and the Stinson Aircraft Company, Robert Hall, designer of the Gee Bee Model Z racing aircraft, designed an aircraft to meet the Honduran requirement.

W.E.W. Petter

William Edward Willoughby "Teddy" Petter CBE (8 August 1908, Highgate in Middlesex - 1 May 1968, Béruges) was a British aircraft designer.


see also

Castoldi

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

Coandă

Henri Coandă, Constantin's son, aircraft designer and inventor.

Dornier

Claudius Dornier (1884-1969), German aircraft designer and builder

Folland Midge

The Midge and Gnat were the creation of W.E.W. "Teddy" Petter, a British aircraft designer who had gained wide recognition for his design of the English Electric Canberra bomber and Lightning supersonic interceptor.

Freewing Scorpion

Working with well-known small-aircraft designer Burt Rutan, Freewing designed a series of piston-powered short-takeoff-and-landing UAVs, based on a design where the fuselage pivots relative to the wing surfaces.

John Frost

John Carver Meadows Frost (1915–1979), British aircraft designer for the Avro Aircraft Company amongst others

Jurgis Dobkevičius

Jurgis Dobkevičius (born March 23, 1900 in Saint Petersburg, died testing his own construction airplane Dobi-III in a crash June 8, 1926 in Kaunas) was a Lithuanian aviator and aircraft designer

Ladislav Žák

Villa Hajn, 1932–1933, Prague 9 - Vysočany, No. 404, Na Vysočanských vinicích 31 - villa for the aircraft designer and founder of the company Avia, Miroslav Hajn.

Mikhail Simonov

Mikhail Simonov (19 October 1929 – 4 March 2011) was a Russian aircraft designer famed for creating the Sukhoi Su-27 fighter-bomber, the Soviet Union's answer to the American F-15 Eagle.

Piaggio Ape

In 1947, the inventor of the Vespa, aircraft designer Corradino D'Ascanio, came up with the idea of building a light three-wheeled commercial vehicle to power Italy's economical reconstruction, an idea which found favour with Enrico Piaggio, the son of the firm's founder, Rinaldo.

Platz

Reinhold Platz (1886-1966), German aircraft designer and manufacturer

Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness

On the north side of the canyon across from the plaque is the sandstone arch named for Gerard "Jerry" Vultee, an early aircraft designer from California.

Roger Adam

Roger Adam was a French aircraft designer and manufacturer who produced light aircraft in kit from 1948 to 1955.

Spartan Executive

Notable owners of 7Ws included aircraft designer and aviator Howard Hughes, wealthy industrialist J. Paul Getty, and King Ghazi of Iraq.

Stroukoff

Michael Stroukoff (1883–1973) Russian-born American aircraft designer

Swanson Coupe

The Swanson Coupe Model W-15 was a high-wing, cantilever-type monoplane produced in 1931 by Swedish aircraft designer and manufacturer Swen Swanson.

Tiltman

A. H. Tiltman (Alfred Hessell Tiltman) (1891-1975), known as Hessell Tiltman, aircraft designer and co-founder of the British aeronautical company Airspeed Ltd

Van's Aircraft RV-6

Van’s Aircraft designer, Richard VanGrunsven, designed the RV-6 series as a two seat side-by-side development of the RV-4, which was itself a development of the single seat RV-3.

Vezdekhod

In August 1914, a 23-year old aircraft designer Aleksandr Porokhovschikov offered to build a vehicle with cross-country capability.

Walter E. Mooney

Walter E. Mooney (1926 - March 1, 1990) was a pilot and model aircraft designer who lived in San Diego, California.

Wayne Ison

Wayne Ison is an aircraft designer whose designs include the Airbike, Mini-MAX, Hi-MAX and PDQ-2.

Zbysław Ciołkosz

Zbysław Ciołkosz (23 March 1902 – 25 June 1960) was a prolific Polish American aircraft designer, whose work includes the P.Z.L. 27, PWS-20, LWS-3 Mewa, RWD-11, LWS-6 Żubr, PWS-1, PWS-54, PWS-19, LWS-2, and PWS-52.