Robert T. Jones

Robert T. Jones

male, deceased (1999)
Robert T. (Bob) Jones, was an aerodynamicist and aeronautical engineer for NACA and later NASA. Known at NASA as "one of the premier aeronautical...
Jay Greene

Jay Greene

male
Jay Greene is a retired NASA engineer. He worked as a flight controller during the Apollo Program and was a flight director from 1982 to 1986, most...
Abe Silverstein

Abe Silverstein

male, deceased (2001)
Abe Silverstein (1908 - 2001) was an American engineer who played an important part in the United States space program. He was a longtime manager...
Guenter Wendt

Guenter Wendt

male
Guenter F. Wendt (b. 1924) was a native of Germany. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1949 and became a U.S. citizen in 1955. As an engineer, he worked...
Umberto Nobile

Umberto Nobile

male, deceased (1978)
Umberto Nobile (January 21, 1885 - July 30, 1978) was an Italian aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer. Nobile is primarily remembered for...

John Hodge

male
John Hodge (born 1929) is a British-born aerospace engineer. He worked for the Avro Arrow project in Canada; when it was cancelled in 1959, he...
Harry Hawker

Harry Hawker

male, deceased (1921)
Harry George Hawker (22 January, 1889-12 July, 1921) was an Australian aviation pioneer and co-founder of Hawker Aircraft, the firm that would...
Pavel Sukhoi

Pavel Sukhoi

male, deceased (1975)
Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi was a Belarusian Soviet aircraft constructor and designer. Sukhoi was born in Glubokoye near Vitebsk, a small village in...

Louis Blériot

male, deceased (1936)
Louis Blériot was a French inventor and engineer. In 1909 he achieved the first flight over a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft when h...
Thomas Sopwith

Thomas Sopwith

male, deceased (1989)
Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, CBE, Hon FRAeS (January 18 1888-January 27 1989) was an English aviation pioneer as well as a celebrated...