Frank Whittle

Frank Whittle

male, deceased (1996)
National Inventors Hall of Fame, jet engine, inventor, Sir Frank Whittle, Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Member of the Order of Merit…royal air force, Royal Air Force officer, Air Commodore, Ministry of Supply, AirMinistry
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, FRS, Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907-9 August 1996) was an English Royal Air Force officer and is seen as the...
R. J. Mitchell

R. J. Mitchell

male, deceased (1937)
cancer death, Supermarine Spitfire, aeronautical engineer, vickers, aeronautical engineering, fenton…AirMinistry
Reginald Joseph Mitchell CBE (20 May 1895-11 June 1937) was an aeronautical engineer, best known for his design of the Supermarine Spitfire.
Roy Chadwick

Roy Chadwick

male, deceased (1947)
widnes, Plane crash victim, From Widnes, Farnworth, Widnes, cbe, avro lancaster…AirMinistry, air sea rescue, Argentine Air Force, Air Transport Command, Air Service
Roy Chadwick, CBE, (April 30 1893 - August 23 1947) was an aircraft designer for Avro. Born at Marsh Hall Farm, Farnworth near Widnes, son of the...
Nick Redfern

Nick Redfern

male, 45 years old
from Pelsall, Pelsall, UFO crashes, Nicholas "Nick" Redfern, Ufologist, AirMinistry…royal air force, ministry of defence
Nicholas "Nick" Redfern (born 1964 in Pelsall, Walsall, West Midlands) is a British Ufologists now living in Dallas, Texas, USA. His is an active...

Frank Halford

male, deceased (1955)
de Havilland Gipsy, Armstrong Siddeley Puma, Alumni of the University of Nottingham, university of nottingham, puma, brooklands…AirMinistry
Major Frank Bernard Halford was an English aircraft engine designer. In 1913 he left the University of Nottingham before graduating to learn to fly...

Denis Richards

male, deceased (2004)
World War II historian, Manchester Grammar School, historian, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, British, royal air force…AirMinistry
Denis Richards was a British historian. He is famous for his work on the history of the Royal Air Force, including the three-volume official...
Helmut Schelp

Helmut Schelp

male
World War II, Aerospace engineer, aeronautical engineering, centrifugal compressor, propeller, rlm…AirMinistry, Reich Air Ministry
Helmut Schelp was the director of "advanced" engine development at the RLM's T-Amt technical division leading up to and during World War II. He...
Robert Hanbury Brown

Robert Hanbury Brown

male, deceased (2002)
Tizard Mission, Naval Research Laboratory, Radio Astronomy, AirMinistry, Eddington Medal, Hughes Medal…Ministry of Supply, UK Ministry of Supply
Robert Hanbury Brown AC (31 August, 1916 - 16 January, 2002) was a British astronomer and physicist born in Aruvankadu, India. He studied...
Hugh Casson

Hugh Casson

male, deceased (1999)
Old Eastbournian, Royal Designer for Industry, Eastbourne College, RDI, AirMinistry, modernist
Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson, KCVO, RA, RDI, (23 May 1910 – 15 August 1999) was a British architect, interior designer, artist, and influential writer an...

Victor Hubert Tait

male, deceased (1988)
Canadian military personnel of World War I, Royal Flying Corps, World War I, Canadian, raf, University of Manitoba alumni…AirMinistry, Air Commodore, Air Vice-Marshal, Royal Canadian Air Force air marshal, Egyptian Air Force
Sir Victor Hubert Tait (8 July 1892 - November 27 1988) was a Canadian soldier and airman. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he received a Bachelor of...