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a German-American aviation engineer and inventor

was an aviation pioneer who invented the autopilot and the artificial horizon

founded the Martin-Baker aircraft company, which is a leading producer of aircraft ejection seats

an aviation pioneer who designed and built engines and very early aircraft

He is remembered mostly for his Opel RAK demonstrations of the world's first crewed rocket-powered ground and air vehicles

Valerie Thomas worked as a mathematical data analyst for NASA

was a Soviet aerospace engineer and aircraft designer known as the founder of the Sukhoi Design Bureau

is a Burmese-American engineer

Several other aviators have claimed to be the first to fly a powered airplane.

The Wright brothers patent war centers on the patent that the Wright brothers received for their method of aircraft flight control.

military engineer, and one of pioneers of rocketry

a safety mechanism built into some parachute models which helps them resist losing their shape while open

served as chief engineer of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

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She was chief aeronautical engineer at Canadian Car and Foundry (CC&F) in Fort William, Ontario during the Second World War.

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Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (US: VUR-nər von BROWN; German: [ˈvɛʁnheːɐ̯ fɔn ˈbʁaʊn]; 23 March 1912-16 June 1977) was a German American aerospace engineer and space architect.

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American aerospace engineers

Theodore von Kármán (Hungarian: (szőllőskislaki) Kármán Tódor [(søːløːʃkiʃlɒki) ˈkaːrmaːn ˈtoːdor], May 11, 1881, May 6, 1963) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who worked in aeronautics and astronautics.

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Early rocketry

Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva ([ˈxwan de la ˈθjeɾβaj koðoɾˈni.u]; 21 September 1895-9 December 1936), was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and a self-taught aeronautical engineer.

Yvonne Madelaine Brill (née Claeys; December 30, 1924, March 27, 2013) was a Canadian American rocket and jet propulsion engineer.

It is primarily used to safely support people exiting aircraft at height, but also serves various purposes like slowing cargo, aiding in space capsule recovery on Earth, landing spacecraft on other planets, and stabilizing vehicles or objects.

Aerial refueling, also referred to as air refueling, in-flight refueling (IFR), air-to-air refueling (AAR), and tanking, is the process of transferring aviation fuel from one aircraft (the tanker) to another (the receiver) while both aircraft are in flight.

Thrust reversal, also called reverse thrust, is an operating mode for jet engines equipped with a thrust reverser when thrust is directed forwards for slowing an aircraft after landing.

A multistage rocket or step rocket is a launch vehicle that uses two or more rocket stages, each of which contains its own engines and propellant.

A radar altimeter (RA), also called a radio altimeter (RALT), electronic altimeter, reflection altimeter, or low-range radio altimeter (LRRA), measures altitude above the terrain presently beneath an aircraft or spacecraft by timing how long it takes a beam of radio waves to travel to ground, reflect, and return to the craft.

A vortex generator (VG) is an aerodynamic device, consisting of a small vane usually attached to a lifting surface (or airfoil, such as an aircraft wing) or a rotor blade of a wind turbine.

In aeronautics, air brakes, or speed brakes, are a type of flight control surface used on an aircraft to increase the drag on the aircraft.

A deicing boot is a type of ice protection system installed on aircraft surfaces to permit a mechanical deicing in flight.

A glass cockpit is a cockpit, as used in aircraft and spacecraft, that features an array of electronic (digital) flight instrument displays, typically large LCD screens, rather than traditional analog dials and gauges.

Reactionless drive refers to hypothetical and unproven forms of spacecraft propulsion that would generate thrust without the expelling of propellant or otherwise exchanging momentum.

In automotive and aerospace engineering, a fuel gauge is an instrument used to indicate the amount of fuel in a fuel tank.

Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson (February 27, 1910, December 21, 1990) was an American aeronautical and systems engineer.

In addition, joining of dissimilar metals, such as aluminium to magnesium alloys, has been recently achieved by FSW. Application of FSW can be found in modern shipbuilding, trains, and aerospace applications.

Elon Reeve Musk ( EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman, industrialist and former public official who is the chief executive officer (CEO) and largest shareholder of Tesla and SpaceX. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025, and briefly became the only trillionaire (in terms of US dollars) in June 2026; as of September 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$964 billion.

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (German: Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin; 8 July 1838-8 March 1917) was a German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships.

Alberto Santos-Dumont (self-stylised as Alberto Santos=Dumont; 20 July 1873-23 July 1932) was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft.

The radial configuration was commonly used for aircraft engines before gas turbine engines became predominant.

A turboshaft engine is a form of gas turbine that is optimized to produce shaft horsepower rather than jet thrust.

Shivkar Bāpuji Talpade () was an Indian instructor with an interest in Sanskrit and aviation.

Lyman Wiswell Gilmore Jr. (June 11, 1874, February 18, 1951) was an American aviation pioneer.

A pressure altimeter is the altimeter found in most aircraft, and skydivers use wrist-mounted versions for similar purposes.

Highly sensitive accelerometers are used in inertial navigation systems for aircraft and missiles.

He was appointed Official Aeronaut of France.

Matthew Piers Watt Boulton (22 September 1820-30 June 1894), also published under the pseudonym M. P. W. Bolton, was a British classicist, elected member of the UK's Metaphysical Society, an amateur scientist and an inventor, best known for his invention of the aileron, a primary aeronautical flight control device.

Auguste Antoine Piccard (28 January 1884-24 March 1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere and became the first person to enter the stratosphere.

He was a pioneer of aeronautical engineering

Henri Marie Coandă (June 7, 1886, November 25, 1972) was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer and the builder of the world's first-jet powered aircraft, the Coanda-1910.

Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (May 25, 1757, April 4, 1837) was a French chemist, physicist, inventor, monk, and the first man in history to use a parachute.