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Raymond Loewy (/ ˈ l oʊ i / LOH-ee, French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ levi]; [2] November 5, 1893 – July 14, 1986) was a French-born American industrial designer who achieved fame for the magnitude of his design efforts across a variety of industries.
Frederick George Miles (1903–1976) – designer at Miles Aircraft, husband of Maxine Blossom Miles; John W. Miles (1920–2008) – pioneer in theoretical fluid mechanics; Maxine Blossom Miles (1901–1984) – pilot, designer, draughtswoman, aerodynamicist and stress engineer, designer of the Miles Hawk
Experimented in aeronautics at age 13 with a Chinese top (1796); [28] first design of a fixed-wing aircraft (1799); [51] used a whirling arm to test aerofoils at varying angles (1804); [51] presented a paper outlining specific design parameters for building a glider (1810); [51] designed, constructed, and had flown (short hop) a tri-plane (1849 ...
Image credits: ahotep As per legendary German industrial designer Dieter Rams, good designs are innovative, aesthetic, unobtrusive, honest, environmentally friendly, long-lasting, thorough to the ...
Giovanni Caproni (on the left) on board the second Caproni Ca.32 at Taliedo airport in July 1915.. Giovanni Battista "Gianni" Caproni, 1st Count of Taliedo (July 3, 1886 – October 27, 1957) was an Italian aeronautical engineer, civil engineer, electrical engineer, and aircraft designer who founded the Caproni aircraft-manufacturing company.
Precision Manuals Development Group was founded by Robert S. Randazzo, Senior Developer, in January 1998. Originally conceived as a small technical publishing company, PMDG's first product, the 747-400PS1 User's Guide was released in February 1998, to assist non-pilots with mastering the aircraft.
Glenn Curtiss was born in 1878 in Hammondsport, New York, situated on the southern tip of Keuka Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in New York. His mother was Lua Curtiss née Andrews and his father was Frank Richmond Curtiss a harness maker who had arrived in Hammondsport with Glenn's grandparents in 1876.
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