Aerospace Engineering

Engineers whose defining technological contribution is aircraft or spacecraft: airframes, jet and rocket propulsion, and flight and orbital guidance. Belongs here: Orville and Wilbur Wright for powered flight, Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain for the independently developed jet engine, Barnes Wallis and Elsie MacGill for wartime airframe design and production, Kelly Johnson for the Skunk Works aircraft line, and Yvonne Brill for satellite propulsion. Does not belong here: guidance and computing systems built for uses outside flight, grouped under Computer or Systems Engineering, even when the same engineer's career also touches aerospace guidance.