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Manufacture: Building aircraft to fill commercial or government requests; Aviator: International firsts, major records, major awards received; Support: Significant industrial endorsements, philanthropic, founding of relevant organizations, etc. (†) : A dagger following the pioneer's name indicates they died in or as a result of an aircraft ...
Igor Sikorsky was born in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Kyiv, Ukraine), on May 25, 1889. [6] [10] [11] He was the youngest of five children.His father, Ivan Alexeevich Sikorsky, was a professor of psychology in Saint Vladimir University (now Taras Shevchenko National University), a psychiatrist with an international reputation, and an ardent Russian nationalist.
First propeller driven aircraft to exceed the speed of sound (in a dive): was a McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo (without assistance from the jet engines) flown by Capt. Fitzpatrick in late June, 1953. [230] [231] First aircraft to carry and deploy a thermonuclear weapon: was a Tupolev Tu-95 during the Soviet Union's RDS-6s test on August 12, 1953 [232]
Ueltschi helped launch and was a prolific contributor to Orbis International, a nonprofit, global development organization which operates a flying eye hospital (utilizing a specially equipped McDonnell Douglas DC-10) that offers sight-saving surgery and training to doctors around the world, and whose mission is to eliminate avoidable blindness in developing countries.
William Edward Boeing (/ ˈ b oʊ ɪ ŋ /; October 1, 1881 – September 28, 1956) was an American aviation pioneer. He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which was renamed to Boeing a year later. The company is now the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value and among the largest aerospace manufacturers in the world.
John J. Montgomery was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1964, U.S. Soaring Hall of Fame in 2001, [111] California Aviation Hall of Fame in 2015., [112] and International Aerospace Hall of Fame in 2017. [113] In 1924, a new engineering building was dedicated as the Montgomery Laboratories on the campus of Santa Clara University.
Trippe was born in Sea Bright, New Jersey, on June 27, 1899, the great-great-grandson of Lieutenant John Trippe, captain of the USS Vixen. [4] Because he was named "Juan", he is widely assumed to have been of Hispanic descent, but his family was actually Northern European in ancestry and settled in Maryland in 1664.
The aircraft was largely destroyed, but Blériot was, by great good fortune, unhurt. The engine of the aircraft was immediately behind his seat, and he was very lucky not to have been crushed by it. This was followed by the Blériot VI, a tandem wing design, first tested on 7 July, when the aircraft failed to lift off. Blériot then enlarged ...