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Bell Textron Inc. is an American aerospace manufacturer headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. A subsidiary of Textron, Bell manufactures military rotorcraft at facilities in Fort Worth, and Amarillo, Texas, United States as well as commercial helicopters in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada.
Scarlin Hernandez (born 1991) – aerospace engineer for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope; Hall Hibbard (1903–1996) – Lockheed engineer; Homer Hickam (born 1943) – NASA engineer, model rocketry enthusiast; Geoffrey T. R. Hill (1895–1955) – designer of the Westland-Hill Pterodactyls and co-developed the aero-isoclinic wing
Exos Aerospace was founded in May 2014; former employees of Armadillo Aerospace were a significant part of the founding team. Exos was created to carry on the reusable commercial spacecraft started by Armadillo Aerospace. [3] Exos even set up their operations in one of Armadillo's former facilities at the Caddo Mills Municipal Airport, in Texas ...
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 ...
It was renamed in honor of the late U.S. president and Texas native, Lyndon B. Johnson, by an act of the United States Senate on February 19, 1973. JSC consists of a complex of 100 buildings constructed on 1,620 acres (660 ha) in the Clear Lake Area of Houston .
The Frontiers of Flight Museum is an aerospace museum located in Dallas, Texas, founded in November 1988 by William E. Cooper, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and Jan Collmer. [1] Originally located within a terminal at Dallas Love Field , the museum now occupies a 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m 2 ) building at the southeast corner of Love Field on Lemmon ...
Carter Aviation Technologies (also known as CarterCopters) is a privately held [2] aviation research and development company based in Wichita Falls, Texas, United States. The main focus of the company is developing new technology and then licensing it to other manufacturers for use on production aircraft. [ 3 ]
Astrotech Corporation, formerly Spacehab Inc., [3] is a technology incubator headquartered in Austin, Texas.Astrotech uses technology sourced internally and from research institutions, government laboratories, and universities to fund, manage and sell start-up companies.