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Ernst Heinrich Heinkel
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Born January 24, 1888 • Germany
Died January 30, 1958 (aged 70) • Stuttgart • Germany

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Heinkel He 178
The German Heinkel He 178, the world's first successful jet airplane.
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American aviator
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Bell, Lawrence
Lawrence Dale Bell
American aircraft designer
Messerschmitt, 1941
Willy Messerschmitt
German engineer
Junkers, Hugo
Hugo Junkers
German aircraft designer
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
Donald Douglas, 1970
Donald Douglas
American aircraft designer
Geoffrey de Havilland
British aircraft designer
Focke-Wulf Fw 190, German fighter plane of World War II.
Kurt Tank
German aircraft designer and test pilot
Dornier, Claudius
Claudius Dornier
German engineer
Alexander M. Lippisch
German-American aerodynamicist
Wilbur Wright
American aviator
Sir Barnes Wallis
British military engineer
Marcel Dassault
French industrialist
Farman, Henri
Henri Farman
French pioneer aviator and airplane manufacturer
Louis-Charles Bréguet
French aircraft builder
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev
Soviet aircraft designer
Maurice Farman, 1909
Maurice Farman
French aviator and aircraft designer
Glenn L. Martin
American aircraft inventor