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List of aerospace engineers

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This article is about engineers in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. For people in other disciplines, seeLists of engineers.

This is alist of notable aerospace engineers, people who were trained in or practicedaerospace engineering and design.

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Talbert Abrams (1895–1990) – aerial photography and plexiglas pioneer, designer of theAbrams P-1 Explorer
Gerd Achgelis (1908–1991) – helicopter pioneer
Jakob Ackeret (1898–1981)
Clément Ader (1841–1925) – early aviation pioneer
Bruce Aikenhead (1923–2019) –Avro Canada,NASA
Buzz Aldrin (born 1930) – astronaut, mechanical engineer and second person to walk on the Moon
Rostislav Alexeyev (1916–1980) – ground effect vehicle designer
Edmund T. Allen (1896–1943) – engineer, test pilot
Harry Julian Allen (1910–1977) – NASA, inventor of blunt body re-entry vehicles
Gwen Alston (1907–1993) – aerodynamicist
Björn Andreasson [sv] (1917–1993) – control systems designer at McDonnell and Convair, designer of theMalmö MFI-9 Junior
Oleg Antonov (1906–1984) – founder of theOKB-153 Antonov design bureau
Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) – astronaut, aeronautical engineer and first person to walk on the Moon
Yuri Artsutanov (1929–2019) –space elevator pioneer
Holt Ashley (1923–2006) – researchedaeroelasticity
Lee Atwood (1904–1999) –North American Aviation engineer

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Brunolf Baade (1904–1969) – lead designer of theBaade 152
Erich Bachem (1906–1960) – designer of theBachem Ba 349 Natter rocket plane
Leonard Bairstow (1880–1963) –National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) researcher
Herman Barkey (1909–2005) – led the design team for the McDonnell Aircraft F-4 Phantom
V. P. Barmin (1909–1993) – designer of the rocketlaunch complex
Frank Barnwell (1880–1938) – chief engineerBristol Aeroplane Company
Robert Ludvigovich Bartini (1897–1974) – designer of theBartini Beriev VVA-14 and other experimental projects, founder of the OKB-86 design bureau
Yaakov Bar-Shalom (born 1941) – researcher oftarget tracking
L. E. Baynes (1902–1989) – designer of theBaynes Bat tank glider
Ermanno Bazzocchi [it] (1914–2005) –Aermacchi MB-326 designer
Jim Bede (1933–2015)
Hermann Behrbohm (1907–1977) – aerodynamicist at Messerschmidt and Saab
Rex Beisel (1893–1972) – lead engineer atCurtiss andVought
Giuseppe Mario Bellanca (1886–1960) – aircraft pioneer,blended wing designer
Dwight Henry Bennett (1917–2002) – developedFly-by-wire technology, helped design theF2Y,F-102, F-4 Phantom,F/A-18
Thomas W. Benoist (1874–1917) – earlyairline entrepreneur
Igor Bensen (1917–2000) –autogyro designer
Max Bentele (1909–2006) – jet engine pioneer
Aleksandr Bereznyak (1912–1974) – designer of theBI-1 rocket plane
Georgy Beriev (1903–1979) – founder of theOKB-49 Beriev design bureau
J. D. Bernal (1901–1971) – invented theBernal sphere for space habitation
Albert Betz (1885–1968) – designer and researcher
Paul Bevilaqua (born 1945) – lift fan inventor
Ronald Eric Bishop (1903–1989) - chief designer of thede Havilland Mosquito
Matus Bisnovat (1905–1977) – missile designer
Robert Blackburn (1885–1955) – aviation pioneer
Louis Blériot (1872–1936) – aviation pioneer
George Eugene Bockrath (1911–1998) – researched fracture mechanics
Hendrik Wade Bode (1905–1982) – NASA advisor
Jenny Body – former President of the Royal Aeronautical Society^[1]
William Boeing (1881–1956) – founder ofBoeing
Charles Bolden (born 1946) –NASA Administrator
Viktor Bolkhovitinov (1899–1970) – lead designer of theBolkhovitinov DB-A bomber, founder of the OKB-293 design bureau
Ludwig Bölkow (1912–2003) – aerodynamicist for theMe 262
Alan Bond (born 1944) – designed spaceplanes and an SST
Philip Bono (1921–1993) – space launcher developer
Frank Borman (1928-2023) – commanded first mission to circle the Moon
Karel Bossart (1904–1975) – lead designer of theAtlas ICBM
Enea Bossi Sr. (1888–1963) – aviation pioneer
William Hawley Bowlus (1896–1967) – glider designer
John Boyd (1927–1997) – created theenergy–maneuverability theory
Frances Bradfield (1895–1967) – wind tunnel researcher
Ferdinand Brandner (1903–1986) – aircraft engine designer
Erik Bratt (1916–2010) – lead designer atSaab AB
Vance Breese (1904–1973) – engineer and test pilot
Louis Charles Breguet (1880–1955) – aviation pioneer, founder ofBréguet Aviation
Maurice Brennan (1913–1986) – designer of flying boats, helicopters, transports, rockets, hovercraft
Yvonne Brill (1924–2013) – electrothermal hydrazine thruster
Arthur E. Bryson (born 1925) – "father of modern optimal control theory"
Carl Clemens Bücker [de] (1895–1976) – founder of Bücker-Flugzeugbau GmbH
Viktor Bugaisky [ru] (1912–1994) – designed theFunctional Cargo Block of several space missions
Isabelle Buret – engineer specializing in telecommunications and astronautics
Vincent Burnelli (1895–1964) – blended wing andlifting body designer
Anne Burns (1915–2001) –wind shear expert
Adolf Busemann (1901–1986) –swept wing
Robert W. Bussard (1928–2007) – designer ofnuclear thermal rocket engines
Fedor Ivanovich Bylinkin – aviation pioneer

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Sydney Camm (1893–1966) –Hawker Hurricane designer
Secondo Campini (1904–1980) – jet engine pioneer
Giovanni Caproni (1886–1957) – founder ofCaproni
Albert Caquot (1881–1976) – aviation pioneer
Robert Castello [fr] (1906–1976) – chief engineer atDewoitine, designer atFouga
Mario Castoldi (1888–1968) – chief designer at Aeronautica Macchi
Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave (1874–1947) – undertook pioneering work in the mathematics of aeronautics
George Cayley (1773–1857) – notable for his research in aerodynamics
Clyde Cessna (1879–1954) – early aircraft designer and founder ofCessna
Roy Chadwick (1893–1947) – design engineer for theAvro Company
Roger Chaffee (1935–1967) –Apollo 1 fire victim on January 27, 1967
George Henry Challenger (1881–1947) – engineer with the Bristol Aeroplane Company and later with Vickers
Jim Chamberlin (1915–1981) – Avro Canada, NASA
Roy Chaplin (1899–1988) –Hawker Aircraft
George Chapline Jr. (born 1942) – proposer of afission-fragment rocket
Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003) – died in theColumbia disaster
Vladimir Chelomey (1914–1984) – founder of theOKB-52 rocket design bureau
Chen Yijian [zh] (born 1930) – participated in the design of theShenyang JJ-1
Boris Ivanovich Cheranovsky (1896–1960) – flying wing designer
S. L. Chernyshev [ru] (born 1955) – aerodynamicist
Boris Chertok (1912–2011) – space program control systems designer
Chu Chia-Jen (1900–1985)
Thomas P. Christie (born 1934) – mathematician, co-creator of the Energy–maneuverability theory with John Boyd
Zbysław Ciołkosz (1902–1960) – introduced the use of shaft turbine power for helicopters
John Drury Clark (1907–1988) – developer of jet and rocket fuel
Val Cleaver (1917–1977) – rocket engineer
Henri Coandă (1886–1972) – inventor of thejet engine
Richard Coar (1921–2013) –RJ10 rocket engine designer
Christopher Cockerell (1910–1999) –hovercraft inventor
Dandridge MacFarlan Cole (1921–1965) –Titan II designer
Giuseppe Colombo (1920–1984) – developed the gravitational assist profile used in theMariner 10 mission to Mercury, invented thespace tether
Nicholas Comper (1897–1939) – designer of theComper Swift
Philip M. Condit (born 1941) – former CEO ofBoeing
René Couzinet (1904–1956) – invented retractable landing gear
Eugene E. Covert (1926–2015) – wind tunnel designer
Ray Creasey (1921–1976) aerodynamicist, helped design the BAC Lightning
Gaetano Crocco (1877–1968) – rocketry pioneer
Scott Crossfield (1921–2006) – first man to fly faster than twice the speed of sound in NAA'sX-15
Alwyn Crow (1894–1965) – rocket designer
Irv Culver (1911–1999) –P-38 designer
Glenn Curtiss (1878–1930) – founder of the US aircraft industry
Kazimierz Czarnecki (1916–2005) – NACA and NASA engineer

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Werner Dahm (1917–2008)^[2]
Frederick Dallenbach –Auxiliary power unit designer
Louis Damblanc [fr] (1889–1969) – developed solid fuel rocket fuel
Corradino D'Ascanio (1891–1981) – helicopter pioneer
Marcel Dassault (1892–1986)
Serge Dassault (1925–2018)
Arthur Davenport (1891–1976) –Westland Aircraft
Fred David (1898–1992) – designer at Heinkel, Mitsubishi, Aichi Kokuki andCommonwealth Aircraft Corporation
Stuart Davies (1906–1995) – designed theAvro Lancaster andVulcan
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965)
Louis de Monge (1890–1977) –blended wing inventor
Juan de la Cierva (1895–1936) – inventor of the autogyro
Satish Dhawan (1920–2002)
Walter Stuart Diehl (1893–1976) – created US Navy test facilities, authoredEngineering Aerodynamics
Bertil Dillner (1923–2015) – engineer at Saab and Boeing
Paul Bernard Dilworth (1915–2007)
Wilhelm Dirks [de] (born 1947) – sailplane designer
Heini Dittmar (1911–1960) – record-breaking pilot
Jurgis Dobkevičius (1900–1926) – Lithuanian aviation constructor, military pilot
Takeo Doi (1904–1996) – designer forKawasaki Aircraft Industries
Tom Dolan – developed thelunar orbit rendezvous concept for the Apollo program
Roy Dommett (1933–2015) – the United Kingdom's Chief Missile Scientist
Charles J. Donlan (1916–2011) – NASA manager
Allen F. Donovan (1914–1995) WW2 aircraft, Atlas and Titan missiles, nuclear rockets
Jimmy Doolittle (1896–1993) – instrument flying developer
Étienne Dormoy (1885–1959) – airplane and autogyro designer
Claude Dornier (1884–1969)
Anatoly Dorodnitsyn (1910–1994) – researched meteorology, vortex wing theory, boundary layer theory in a compressible gas, and supersonic gas dynamics
Donald W. Douglas (1892–1981) – founder of theDouglas Aircraft Company
George Dowty (1901–1975) – designer of aircraft components
Charles Stark Draper (1901–1987) – developed inertial navigation
Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898–1965) – researcher and NASA administrator
Guy du Merle (1908–1993) – engineer, test flew captured Bf 109 and He 111 in Spain
Alberto Santos Dumont (1873–1932) – inventor of thedirigible; aeronautics pioneer
J. W. Dunne (1875–1949) – invented the first delta wing
Pedro Duque (born 1963) – engineer and astronaut
William F. Durand (1859–1958) – propeller designer, NACA chair
Ludwig Dürr (1878–1956) – airship designer
Leonid Dushkin (1910–1990) – rocket engine designer

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George Edwards (1908–2003) – designer atVickers-Armstrongs and BAC
Alfred J. Eggers (1922–2006) – NACA / NASA researcher, developed re-entry bodies andcompression lift, managedPioneer program
Joe Engle (born 1932)
Richard Eppler [de] (1924–2021) – sailplane designer
Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881–1957) – aviation and rocketry pioneer, invented the center stick
Walter Extra (born 1954) – aerobatic aircraft designer

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András Fábián [hu] (1909–1944) - designer of theRepülőgépgyár Levente II
Maxime Faget (1921–2004) – designer of theProject Mercury spacecraft
Ole Fahlin (1901–1992) – propeller and prototype airplane developer
Sherman Fairchild (1896–1971) – foundedFairchild Aircraft
Charles Richard Fairey (1857–1956) – founder of theFairey Aviation Company
Farman Brothers
Robert W. Farquhar (1932–2015) – NASA engineer, inventor of thehalo orbit
Roy Fedden (1885–1973) –British engine designer forBristol Engine Company
Bobak Ferdowsi (born 1979) – JPL flight engineer
Antonio Ferri (1912–1975) – created the Ferri scoop used on the jet intakes of theXF-103,F-105,XF8U-3, andSSM-N-9 Regulus II cruise missile, and thediverterless supersonic inlet used on theF-35
Gerhard Fieseler (1896–1987) – German aircraft designer
Harold Finger (born 1924) – ProjectNERVA lead engineer
Hanno Fischer [de] (born 1924) –ducted fan aircraft designer
Gary Flandro (born 1934) – NASA researcher, conceived thePlanetary Grand Tour fulfilled by theVoyager program
Alexander H. Flax (1921–2014) – developer of tandem helicopters and reconnaissance satellites
Anton Flettner (1885–1961) – helicopter pioneer
Nicolas Florine (1891–1972) – helicopter pioneer
James C. Floyd (born 1914) – Avro Canada designer
Henrich Focke (1890–1979) – helicopter pioneer
Anthony Fokker (1890–1939)
Henry Folland (1889–1954) – chief designer at Nieuport, Gloster, andFolland Aircraft
Edward Forman (1912–1973) – co-founder of JPL, Aerojet
Robert L. Forward (1932–2002) – designer of solar sails and space tethers
Harlan D. Fowler (1895–1982) – Fowler flap inventor
John Fozard (1928–1996) – Hawker Siddeley Harrier designer
Anselm Franz (1900–1994) – jet engine pioneer
Stelio Frati (1919–2010) – designer of several aircraft inc theSIAI-Marchetti SF.260
Otto Frenzl [de] (1909–1996) – first inventor of thearea rule
Leslie Frise (1895–1979) – designed the Type 156Bristol Beaufighter
John Carver Meadows Frost (1915–1979) – chief designer of theAvro Canada CF-100 and severalVTOL projects
Michimasa Fujino (born 1960) –Hondajet designer

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Giuseppe Gabrielli (1903–1987) – aircraft designer
Giovanni Galasso [it] – designer of the STOLIMAM Ro.63
Jean Galtier [fr] (1902–1971)
Robert Gilruth (1913–2000) – engineer, NACA and NASA administrator
Peter Glaser (1923–2014) – developed thesolar power satellite
John Glenn (1921–2016) – first American man to orbit the Earth in 1962
Valentin Glushko (1908–1989)
Robert Goddard (1882–1945) – scientist who developed the first liquid-fueled rocket 3-16-26
Tadeusz Góra (1918–2010)
Vladimir P. Gorbunov [ru] (1903–1945) – co-developer of theLaGG-3
Sergei Petrovich Gorbunov [ru] (1902–1933) – designer and factory manager
Viktor Gorokhov [ru] (born 1952) – liquid rocket engine designer at theChemical Automatics Design Bureau
Fritz Gosslau (1898–1965) –V-1 flying bomb designer
Arthur Gouge (1890–1962) – designed the "C-class" Empire and Sunderland flying boats, invented theGouge flap
Granville Brothers – GeeBee racers
Jay Greene (1942–2017)
Alan Arnold Griffith (1893–1963) – jet engine designer
Gus Grissom (1926–1967) – Apollo 1 fire victim on January 27, 1967
Gordon G. Grose (1925–1993) – integrated fly-by-wire controls with engine inlets/nozzles and advanced pilot displays
Gu Songfen (born 1930) – participated in the design of theShenyang JJ-1, chief designer of theShenyang J-8 andShenyang J-8II
Guan De (1932–2018) –aeroelasticity engineer, participated in the design and development of the Shenyang JJ-1, the Shenyang J-8 and the Shenyang J-8II
Mikhail Ivanovich Gudkov [ru] (1904–1983) – co-developer of the LaGG-3
Leroy Grumman (1895–1982) – founder ofGrumman Aircraft
Tore Gullstrand (1921–2002) – chief engineer at Saab
Siegfried and Walter Günter (1899–1969)(1899–1937) – jet aircraft pioneers
Mikhail Gurevich (1893–1976) – co-founder of theOKB-155 MiG design bureau
Bartolomeu de Gusmão (1685–1724) – Portuguese priest, aircraft designer
Antanas Gustaitis (1898–1941) – Lithuanian aircraft designer, Brigadier General, Commander-in-Chief of Lithuanian Air Force

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Wolfgang Haack (1902–1994)
B. J. Habibie (1936–2019)
Raoul Hafner (1905–1980) – helicopter pioneer
Edward N. Hall (1914–2006) –Minuteman ICBM engineer
Eugen Hänle [de] (1924–1975) – sailplane designer
Julius Hatry (1906–2000) – built the first rocket plane
Harry Hawker (1889–1921) – test pilot, formed Hawker Aircraft
Willis Hawkins (1913–2004) – design lead of theL-133 andC-130
Clinton H. Havill (1892–1953) – researched airships and propellers
Richard E. Hayden (born 1946) – noise reduction developer
Wallace D. Hayes (1918–2001) – discoverer of the area rule and hypersonics
Martin Heide [de] (born 1954) – sailplane designer
Edward H. Heinemann (1908–1991) – Chief Engineer for Douglas Aircraft, designed 20 military aircraft
Ernst Heinkel (1888–1958) – developed first jet rocket aircraft
Chris Heintz (1938–2021) – kit plane designer
Scarlin Hernandez (born 1991) – aerospace engineer for NASA’sJames 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 theWestland-Hill Pterodactyls and co-developed theaero-isoclinic wing
Stanley Hiller (1924–2006) – founderHiller Aircraft
Hellmuth Hirth (1886–1938) – aircraft engine designer, brother of Wolf Hirth
Wolf Hirth (1900–1959) – sailplane designer, brother of Hellmuth Hirth
Leonard S. Hobbs (1896–1977) – engine designer
John Hodge (1929–2021) – Avro Canada, NASA
Sighard F. Hoerner (1906—1971) – aerodynamicist, assisted theFieseler Fi 156 Storch design
Nicholas J. Hoff (1906–1997)
Samuel Kurtz Hoffman (1902–1995) – rocket engine designer
Kurt Hohenemser (1906–2001) – helicopter pioneer
Walter Hohmann (1880–1945) – invented theHohmann transfer orbit
Peter K. Homer (born 1961)
Stanley Hooker (1907–1984) – British engine engineer for Rolls-Royce Aerospace
Ralph Hooper (1926–2022) –Hawker Siddeley Harrier developer
Jiro Horikoshi (1903–1982) – chief engineer for theMitsubishi A6M
Horten brothers (1913–1998) (1915–1994) –flying wing designers
John Houbolt (1919–2014) – NASA engineer, lunar orbit rendezvous proponent
Kathleen Howell – known for her contributions to dynamical systems theory applied to spacecraft trajectory
Hsue-Chu Tsien (1914–1997) – aeronautical engineer
Howard Hughes (1905–1976) – aerospace engineer, owned RKO movie studio
Huang Zhiqian (1914–1965) – lead designer of theShenyang J-8
Jerome Clarke Hunsaker (1886–1984) – pioneer of heavier and lighter than air aircraft
Rick Husband (1957–2003) – died in theColumbia disaster
François Hussenot (1912–1951) – inventor of one of the early forms of theflight recorder
Wolfgang Hütter [de] (1909–1990) – sailplane designer

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Sergey Ilyushin (1894–1977) – founder of theOKB-39 Ilyushin design bureau
Aleksei Isaev (1908–1971) – rocket engine designer
Hideo Itokawa (1912–1999) – aircraft and rocket designer atNakajima Aircraft Company
Sergey Izotov (1917–1983) – aircraft engine designer, founder of the OKB-117 design bureau

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Mary Jackson (1921–2005) – NASA engineer
Eastman Jacobs (1902–1987) – advanced wind tunnels, airfoils, turbulence, boundary layers, and Schlieren photography
Hans Jacobs (1907–1994) – sailplane pioneer
Jack James (1920–2001) –Mariner program manager
Antony Jameson (born 1934) – pioneeredcomputational fluid dynamics
Robert P. Johannes (1934–2004) – developedFly-by-wire technology
Clarence "Kelly" Johnson (1910–1990) – formedLockheed'sSkunk Works and led the design of the SR-71, U-2, F-117A, F-104, C-130, T-33, P-38, and Constellations
Katherine Johnson (1918–2020) – mathematician who worked as an aerospace technologist atNASA
Robert Thomas Jones (1910–1999) – aeronautical engineer at NASA
Drago Jovanovich (1916–1983) – rotorcraft designer
Charles Joy (1911–1989) – engineer at Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, Gloster Aircraft Company. and Handley Page
Hugo Junkers (1859–1935) – pioneered the design of all-metal airplanes

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Rudolf Kaiser (1922–1991) – sailplane designer
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015) – former President of India, "Missile Man of India"
Charles Kaman (1919–2011) – helicopter pioneer
Nikolai Kamov (1902–1973) – founder of the Kamov design bureau
Abraham Karem (born 1937) – founder ofUAV (drone) technology
Alexander Kartveli (1896–1974) – Chief Engineer atRepublic Aviation, contributor to first aerospace vehicle prototypes
Otto Kauba (1908-1962) – designer of theŠkoda-Kauba SK 257, co-designer of theŠkoda-Kauba P14
Harold R. Kaufman (1926-2018) – developed firstion thrusters
David Keith-Lucas (1911–1997) – engineer atShort Brothers
Mstislav Keldysh (1911–1978) – rocket and spacecraft designer
W. Wallace Kellett (1891–1951) – Kellett Autogiro Corporation
Thomas J. Kelly (1929–2002) – leader of the Apollo Lunar Module design team
Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921–2003) – mechanical engineer who is best known for designingLunokhod 1, the first lunar rover
Sergey Khristianovich (1908–2000) – aerodynamicst
Shizuo Kikuhara [jp] (1906–1991) – designer atKawanishi Aircraft Company andShinMaywa
Hidemasa Kimura [jp] (1904–1986) –YS-11 designer
Dutch Kindelberger (1895–1962) – Chief Engineer at Douglas Aircraft and head of North American Aviation
Klapmeier brothers (born 1958) (born 1961) – founders ofCirrus Aircraft
Milton Klein (1924–2022) – nuclear rocket engineer
Hanns Klemm [de] (1885–1961) – founded the Klemm Light Aircraft Company
Vladimir Yakovlevich Klimov [ru] – aircraft engine designer, founder of theOKB-45 Klimov design bureau
Ave K. Kludze, Jr. (born 1967?) – NASA engineer
Heinz-Hermann Koelle (1925–2011) – von Braun associate
Yuri Kondratyuk (1897–1942) – first developer of the lunar orbit rendezvous concept
Alexander Konopatov [ru] (1922–2004) – aircraft and rocket designer at OKB-154
Otto C. Koppen (1901–1991) – MIT professor, designer for Ford andHelio Courier
Yuri Koptev (born 1940) – engineer, former Roscosmos General Director
Sergey Korolev (1907–1966) – Korolev rocket design bureau founder
Semyon Kosberg (1903–1965) – lead engine designer at OKB-154
Gleb Kotelnikov (1872–1944) –parachute pioneer
Frank Kozloski (1916–2003) – rotorcraft and missile developer
Chris Kraft (1924–2019) – NASA administrator
Eugene Kranz (born 1933) – aeronautical engineer
Werner Krüger (1910–2003) – inventor of theKrueger flap
Dietrich Küchemann (1911–1976) – aerodynamicist
Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov (1911–1995) – engine designer, founder of theOKB-276 Kuznetsov design bureau

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Gustav Lachmann (1896–1966) – designer at Handley-Page
Barry Laight (1920–2012) – designer of theBlackburn Buccaneer
Aarne Lakomaa (1914–2001) – involved in the design of theSaab 35 Draken and theSaab 37 Viggen
Frederick W. Lanchester (1868–1946) – aerodynamicist
Geoffrey A. Landis (born 1955) – NASA engineer, interplanetary exploration
Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834–1906) – aircraft pioneer
Agnew E. Larsen (1897–1969) – engineer at Curtiss and Pitcairn
Conrad Lau (1921–1964) – lead designer of theXF8U-3 andA-7 Corsair
Semyon Lavochkin (1900–1960) – founder of theOKB-301 Lavochkin design bureau
Lovell Lawrence Jr. (1915–1971) – co-founder ofReaction Motors
Bill Lear (1902–1978) – founder ofLearjet
Jerome F. Lederer (1902–2004) – aviation-safety pioneer
René Leduc (1898–1968) – designer of the ramjet-poweredLeduc 0.10
Diane Lemaire (1923–2012) – first woman to graduate from the University of Melbourne with a degree in engineering
Léon Levavasseur (1863–1922) – aviation pioneer
David S. Lewis (1917–2003) –F-4 Phantom II program manager
George W. Lewis (1882–1948) – NACA administrator
Gordon Lewis (1924–2010) – turbine engine designer
Fuk Li – JPL Mars Exploration Directorate manager
Robert Lickley (1912–1998) – Chief Engineer atFairey Aviation Company
Robert H. Liebeck – airfoil andblended wing body designer
Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896)
Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) – made first solo transatlantic airplane flight from NY to Paris in 1927 on Spirit of St. Louis
Per Lindstrand (born 1948) – balloons and other aircraft
Alexander Lippisch (1894–1976)
Claude Lipscomb (1887–1974) – designer of theShort Stirling
Boris Lisunov (1898–1946) – engineered acopy of the DC-3
William Littlewood – contributed to the design and operational requirements of transport aircraft
Olof Ljungström (1918–2013) – engineer at Saab, taught aircraft design atStanford University andCaltech
Allan Lockheed (1889–1969) – co-founder of theLockheed Corporation
Malcolm Lockheed (1886–1958) – co-founder of the Lockheed Corporation
Grover Loening (1888–1976) – awarded first ever degree in aeronautical engineering
Robert Loewy (1926–2025) – rotor-wing VTOL aircraft designer
Roy LoPresti (1929–2002) – general aviation designer
Samuel Jasper Loring (1914–1963) – researched aeroelastic flutter problems
George Low (1926–1984) – aerodynamicist and NASA administrator
Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy (1909–2001) – General Designer of the NPO Molniya design bureau, lead designer of theBuran space shuttle
Lu Xiaopeng (1920–2000) – designer of theNanchang Q-5 and theNanchang J-12
Heinrich Lübbe (1884–1940) – Anthony Fokker collaborator
Glynn Lunney (1936–2021) – Apollo program
Robert Lusser (1899–1969) – designer at Messerschmitt, Heinkel, and Fieseler
Jean-Marie Luton (1942–2020) –ESA Director General
Andrey Lyapin [ru] (1912–1985) – chief missile designer at OKB-134, nowVympel NPO
Arkhip Lyulka (1908–1984) – engine designer, founder of theOKB-165 Lyulka design bureau
Lev Lyulyev (1908–1985) – artillery, rocket, and missile designer, founder of theOKB-8 design bureau

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Paul MacCready (1925–2007) –human-powered aircraft designer
Elsie MacGill (1905–1980)
Ernst Mach (1838–1916)
Georg Hans Madelung (1889–1972) – V-1 designer
Otto Mader [de] (1880–1944) – inventor of the Junkers flap
Peyton M. Magruder (1911–1982) – lead designer of theMartin B-26
Viktor Makeyev (1924–1985) –SLBM designer
Frank Malina (1912–1981) – rocket engineer, JPL administrator
John C. Mankins – NASA space-based solar power researcher
Frank E. Marble (1918–2014)
Frederick Marriott (1805–1884)
Glenn L. Martin (1886–1955) – founder of the Glenn L. Martin Company
Pierre Mauboussin [fr] (1900–1984) – co-designer of theFouga CM.170 Magister
Hans Mauch (1906–1984) – jet engine pioneer, artificial limb developer
Mark D. Maughmer (born 1950) – aerodynamicist
Owen Maynard (1924–2000) – Avro Canada, NASA
Alessandro Mazzoni [it] (1931–2016) –Piaggio chief engineer
William C. McCool (1961–2003) – died in theColumbia disaster
James Smith McDonnell (1899–1980) – founder ofMcDonnell Aircraft Corporation
Colin R. McInnes (born 1968) – solar sail researcher
Marion O. McKinney Jr. (1921–1999) – NACA and NASA engineer, researched VTOL flight
William B. McLean (1914–1976) – lead designer of theAIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile
George J. Mead (1891–1949) – engine designer
William C. Mentzer (1907–1971) – contributed to aircraft maintenance and economics
Wilhelm Messerschmitt (1898–1978) – designed Bf 109 and jet powered Me 262
Artem Mikoyan (1905–1970) – co-founder of theOKB-155 MiG design bureau
Mikhail Mil (1909–1970) – founder and general designer of theOKB-329 Mil design bureau
Alexander Mikulin (1895–1985) – engine designer, founded the OKB-24 Mikulin design bureau
Frederick George Miles (1903–1976) – designer atMiles Aircraft, husband of Maxine Blossom Miles
John W. Miles (1920–2008) – pioneer in theoretical fluid mechanics
Maxine Blossom Miles (1901–1984) – pilot, designer, draughtswoman, aerodynamicist and stress engineer, designer of the Miles Hawk
Clark Blanchard Millikan (1903–1966) – professor of aeronautics
Arseny Mironov (1917–2019) – Russian scientist, aerospace engineer and aircraft pilot
Don Mitchell (1915–1993) – sailplane designer
R. J. Mitchell (1895–1937) – designed theSpitfire aircraft
Swati Mohan –Mars 2020 engineer
Paul Moller (born 1936) – circular aircraft designer
Montgolfier brothers (1740–1810) (1745–1799) – inventors of the hot air balloon
John J. Montgomery (1858–1911)
Albert Mooney (1906–1986) – general aviation designer
Hans Moravec (born 1948) – space tether developer
Morien Morgan (1912–1978) – 'Father of theConcorde'
George Mueller (1918–2015) – NASA administrator
Alan Mulally (born 1945) – Boeing executive and President ofFord
Hans Multhopp (1913–1972)
Elon Musk (born 1971) – founder ofSpaceX and co-founder ofTesla
Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev (1902–1978) – founder of theOKB-23 Myasishchev design bureau

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Aleksandr Nadiradze (1914–1987) – Soviet Georgian ballistic missile and rocket engineer
James C. Nance (1927–2019) –aircraft nuclear propulsion engineer
Gerhard Neumann (1917–1997) – engineer forGeneral Electric, contributed to the design of theJ79
Édouard Nieuport (1875–1911) – aviation pioneer
No Kum-sok aka Kenneth H. Rowe (1932–2022) – North Korean MiG-15 pilot defector, US aeronautical engineer and professor
Umberto Nobile (1885–1978) –semi-rigid airship designer
John Dudley North (1893–1968) – chief engineer atBoulton Paul Aircraft
Robert B. C. Noorduyn (1893–1959) –Noorduyn Norseman designer
Jack Northrop (1895–1981) – foundedNorthrop Corporation in 1939 and later the Flying Wing

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Hermann Oberth (1894–1989) – rocketry pioneer
William C. Ocker (1880–1942) – instrument flying pioneer
Wendy Okolo (born 1984?) – NASA engineer
Gerard K. O'Neill (1927–1992) – developer of theO'Neill cylinder for space colonization
Minoru Ōta (aeronautical engineer) [jp] –Nakajima Aircraft Company

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Frederick Page (1917–2005) – lead designer of theEnglish Electric Lightning and theBAC TSR-2
Mark Page (born 1956) –blended wing body andUAV designer
Thomas O. Paine (1921–1992) – engineer, scientist, NASA administrator
Antonino Parano (aeronautical engineer) [it] (1904–1952)
Paul C. Paris (1930–2017) – known for introducingfracture mechanics to the aviation industry
Bob Parkinson (born 1941) –HOTOL spaceplane developer
Jack Parsons (1914–1952) – rocket engineer, chemist, JPL founder
Pedro Paulet (c. 1874–1945) – rocketry pioneer
Vladimir Pavlecka (1901–1980) – inventedflush rivets, designed theZMC-2 rigid airship and pressurized transports
Nicolas Roland Payen (1914–2004) – delta wing developer
Richard Pearse (1877–1953) – earlyNew Zealand aircraft builder
Jerome Pearson (1938–2021) – space elevator developer
George Edward Pendray (1901–1987) – co-founder of Reaction Motors
Harald Penrose (1904–1996) – test pilot and glider designer
Edgar Percival (1897–1984) – founder of thePercival Aircraft Company
Bruce Peterson (1933–2006) – NASA engineer and test pilot
Anatoly Perminov (born 1945) – former Roscosmos General Director
Vladimir Petlyakov (1891–1942) – founder of the Petlyakov design bureau
W. E. W. (Teddy) Petter (1908–1968) – designer at Westland, English Electric, and Folland
Frank Piasecki (1919–2008) – helicopter pioneer
William Hayward Pickering (1910–2004) – rocketry pioneer, JPL director
Kenneth D. Pinyan (1960-2005)
Percy Pilcher (1867–1899)
Harold Frederick Pitcairn (1897–1960) – autogyro developer
Curtis Pitts (1915–2005)
Paul Poberezny (1921–2013) – founder of theExperimental Aircraft Association
Mikhail Pogosyan (born 1956) – general director ofSukhoi andUnited Aircraft Corporation
Hermann Pohlmann (1894–1991) – designer of the Ju 87 Stuka
Nikolai Polikarpov (1892–1944) – founded the Polikarpov design bureau
Boris Popov – invented one of the first successful aircraftballistic parachute systems^[3]
Henry Potez (1891–1981)
Herman Potočnik (1892–1929)
Ludwig Prandtl (1875–1953)
Ronald F. Probstein (1928–2021) – researched hypersonics including re-entry vehicle design
Ralph V. Pruitt (1936–1983) – integrated fly-by-wire controls with engine inlets/nozzles and advanced pilot displays
Palmer Cosslett Putnam (1900–1984) – wind-power pioneer

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Qian Xuesen (1911–2009)

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Fritz Raab [de] (1909–1989) – motorglider designer
Vladimir Rachuk [ru] (born 1936) – liquid rocket engine designer at the Chemical Automatics Design Bureau
Arthur Emmons Raymond (1899–1999) – lead designer of theDC-3
R. Dale Reed (1930–2005) – NASA lifting body designer
Wendell E. Reed – developed jet engine controls
Wilfrid Thomas Reid (1887–1968)
Frederick Rentschler (1887–1956) – aircraft engine designer
Judith Resnik (1949–1986)
Osborne Reynolds (1842–1912)
Richard V. Rhode (1904–1994) – researched aerodynamic loading
Georges Ricard [fr] (1906–1981) – designer at Bréguet Aviation
Ben Rich (1925–1995) – director ofLockheed'sSkunk Works; contributed toSR-71 andF-117 development
G. Tilghman Richards (1884–1960) – annular wing designer
John M. Riebe (1921–2011)
Norbert Riedel (1912–1963) – developed jet engine starting motors
Robert brothers (1758–1820) (1760–1820) – balloonists
Tecwyn Roberts (1925–1988) – Avro Canada, NASA
Frank D. Robinson (1930–2022) – helicopter designer
Alliott Verdon Roe (1877–1956)
Francis Rogallo (1912–2009) – NASA engineer, created theRogallo wing which led to hang-gliding
Gertrude Rogallo (1914–2008) – wife and collaborator of Francis Rogallo
Frank E. Rom (1926–2012) – NASA nuclear propulsion engineer
Stuart Roosa (1933–1994) – astronaut
Harold Rosen (1926–2017) – electrical engineer known as "the father of thegeostationary satellite"
Milton Rosen (1915–2014) – lead designer of theVanguard rocket
Jan Roskam (1930–2022)
Ludwig Roth (1909–1967)
Carlo Rubbia (born 1934) – fission-fragment rocket proposer
Edward J. Ruppelt (1923–1960) – director ofProject Blue Book
Archibald Russell (1904–1995) – designed the Concorde, Blenheim, Britannia, and Type 188
Burt Rutan (born 1943) – airplane and spacecraft designer
Tubal Claude Ryan (1898–1982) – founder of theRyan Aeronautical Company
Yuri Alekseevich Ryzhov (1930–2017) – aerodynamicist

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Friedrich Wilhelm Sander (1885–1938) – pyrotechnics and rocket technology engineer
Eugen Sänger (1905–1964) –spaceplane designer
Irene Sänger-Bredt (1911–1983) – wife and collaborator of Eugen Sänger
George S. Schairer (1913–2004) – lead designer at Consolidated and Boeing
Helmut Schelp – jet engine pioneer
Alexander Schleicher (1901–1968) – sailplane designer
Paul Schmidt (1898–1976) – V-1 engine designer
Edgar Schmued (1899–1985) – lead engineer on the P-51, F-86, F-100, F-5, T-38
Raemer Schreiber (1910–1998) – nuclear rocket engine designer
Bernard Schriever (1910–2005) – managed ICBM development
Schweizer brothers – sailplane designers
William T. Schwendler (1904-1978) – co-founder of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
Robert Seamans (1918–2008) – engineer, NACA and NASA administrator
William R. Sears (1913–2002) – flying wing designer
Ernest Edwin Sechler (1905–1979) – researched thin-shell structures
Anita Sengupta – led the JPL team that designed theCuriosity Mars rover parachute system
Lucien Servanty (1909–1973) –SO.6000 Triton and Concorde designer
Alexander P. de Seversky (1894–1974) – founder of Seversky Aircraft, later Republic Aviation
Joseph Francis Shea (1925–1999) – NASA Administrator for the Apollo Program
Beatrice Shilling (1909–1990) – perfected the carburetor on theRolls-Royce Merlin engine
Leonid Shkadov (1927–2003) – aircraft development and optimization engineer
Nevil Shute (1899–1960) – aeronautical engineer and author
Arkady Shvetsov (1892–1953) – chief engine designer at theOKB-19 design bureau
Igor Sikorsky (1889–1972) – pioneeredhelicopters
Ozires Silva (born 1931) – founder ofEmbraer
Abe Silverstein (1908–2001) – engineer, NACA and NASA administrator
Apollo M. O. Smith (1911–1997) –Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak,F3D, andF4D designer, pioneer incomputational fluid dynamics
Herbert Smith (1889–1977) – designer of theSopwith Triplane
John Maynard Smith (1920–2004) – military aircraft designer, later evolutionary biologist and geneticist
Joseph Smith (1897–1956) – designer at Supermarine
Ted R. Smith (1906–1976) – designer of theAero Commander andAerostar
Pavel Solovyov (1917–1996) – chief engine designer at the OKB-19 design bureau
Song Wencong (1930–2016) – lead designer of theChengdu J-10
Thomas Sopwith (1888–1989) –Sopwith Aviation Company
Tony Spear –Mars Pathfinder project manager
Percival H. Spencer (1897–1995) – designer of theRepublic RC-3 Seabee
Dorothy Spicer (1908–1946) – aeronautical engineer
Reginald Stafford (1903–1980) – designer of the Handley Page Victor
John Stack (1906–1972) –Bell X-1 designer
Lloyd Stearman (1898–1975) – founder ofStearman Aircraft
Adam Steltzner (born 1963) – JPL engineer for Mars rovers'entry, descent, and landing
Alan Stern (born 1957) – engineer and planetary scientist, principal investigator of theNew Horizons mission to Pluto
Homer Joseph Stewart (1915–2007) – helped developExplorer 1,Pioneer 4, and several rockets
Edward Stinson (1893–1932) – founder of theStinson Aircraft Company
Luigi Stipa (1900–1992) – invented the "intubed propeller"
Harrison Storms (1915–1992) – directed North American Aviation's Apollo Program
William Bushnell Stout (1880–1956) –Ford Trimotor designer
Michael Stroukoff (1883-1973) – designer of theFairchild C-123 Provider
Ernst Stuhlinger (1913–2008) –ion engine developer
Pavel Sukhoi (1895–1975) – founded theOKB-51 Sukhoi design bureau
Martin Summerfield (1916–1996) - co-founder of Aerojet
Sun Cong (born 1961) - chief designer of the FC-31 andShenyang J-15
Joe Sutter (1921–2016) – chief engineer for theBoeing 747
Ed Swearingen (1925–2014) – general aviation designer
G. P. Swischjov [ru] (1912—1999) – aerodynamicist
Clarence Syvertson (1926–2010) – NACA / NASA researcher, developed sounding rockets, compression lift, lifting bodies
Victor Szebehely (1921–1977) – aerospace engineering and celestial mechanics

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Max Taitz (1904–1980) – scientist inaerodynamics and flight testing ofaircraft, one of the founders ofGromov Flight Research Institute
Kurt Tank (1898–1983) – designer of aircraft in Germany, Argentina, and India
Clarence Gilbert Taylor (1898–1988) – designer of thePiper Cub
Moulton Taylor (1912–1965) – experimental aircraft pioneer
Peter Theisinger (born 1945) – JPLMars Exploration Rover project manager
Theodore Theodorsen (1897–1978) – aerodynamicist at NACA
Richard G. Thomas (1930–2006) – aeronautical engineer and test pilot
Mikhail Tikhonravov (1900–1974) – rocket and spacecraft pioneer
Milton Orville Thompson (1926–1993) – NASA engineer and test pilot
Grigori Tokaty (1909–2003) – rocket engineer
Alessandro Tonini (1885–1932) – designer at Gabardini, Macchi, and IMAM
Ivan I. Toropov [ru] (1907–1977) – chief missile designer at OKB-132, nowVympel NPO
Myron Tribus (1921–2016) – deicer developer, heat transfer researcher
Robert Truax (1917–2010) – Aerojet engineer, designer of theSea Dragon heavy launch vehicle
Richard Truly (born 1937) – former astronaut and head of NASA
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) – rocketry pioneer
Tu Jida (1927–2011) – participated in the development of the Shenyang JJ-1, chief designer of theNanchang CJ-6,Shenyang J-5A,Chengdu JJ-5, andseveral variants of the J-7 fighter, including theChengdu J-7M
Sergey Tumansky (1901–1973) – engine designer, founder of the OKB-300 Tumansky design bureau
Andrei Tupolev (1888–1972) – founder of theOKB-156 Tupolev design bureau

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Dana Ulery (born 1938) – JPL scientist, automated tracking of deep space probes
Ralph Hazlett Upson (1888–1968) – designed the world's only all-metal stressed-skin airship
Oskar Ursinus (1877–1952) – sailplane designer
Celestino Usuelli [it] (1877–1926) – dirigible designer

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Max Valier (1895–1930) – rocketry pioneer
Sitaram Rao Valluri (1924–2019) – researched metal fatigue
Kermit Van Every (1915–1998) – high-speed aircraft designer, Douglas Aircraft
Richard VanGrunsven (born 1939) – prolifickit aircraft engineer
Vandi Verma – JPL robot engineer
Vladimir Vetchinkin (1888–1950) – aerodynamicist
Walter G. Vincenti (1917–2019) –hypersonic aircraft designer
Aurel Vlaicu (1882–1913)
Richard Vogt (1894–1979) – designer of asymmetrical aircraft
Gabriel Voisin (1880–1973) – aviation pioneer
George Volkert (1891–1978) – designed theHandley-Page Halifax
Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) – German rocket pioneer
Theodore von Kármán (1881–1963)
Hans von Ohain (1911–1998)
Fritz von Opel (1899–1971) – rocketry pioneer
Chance M. Vought (1890–1930) – founder ofVought Aircraft
Traian Vuia (1872–1950) – first flight with no other ground devices
Gerald Vultee (1900-1938) – engineer, founder of Vultee Aircraft

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Lawrence Wackett (1896–1982) – "father of the Australian aircraft industry", lead designer of theCAC Boomerang
Gerhard Waibel (born 1938) – sailplane designer
Dwane Wallace (1911–1989) – earlyCessna CEO and designer^[4]
Richard Walker (1900–1982) – main designer for jet aircraft of Gloster Aircraft Company
Barnes Wallis (1887–1979)
Ken Wallis (1916–2013) – autogyro
Hellmuth Walter (1900–1980) –rocket engines
Frid Wänström (1905–1988) – engineer, head of calculations at Saab
Joseph F. Ware Jr. (1916–2012) – Lockheed engineer and test pilot
Edward Pearson Warner (1894–1958) – NACA research engineer
Kyūichirō Washizu (1921–1981)
Frank Wattendorf (1906–1986) – von Karman assistant, wind tunnel designer
Johanna Weber (1910–2014) – aerodynamicist for theHandley-Page Victor andConcorde
Fred Weick (1899–1993) – airmail pilot, NACA research engineer who designed the NACA cowl, and designer of theErcoupe andPiper Cherokee
Daniel Weihs (born 1942)
Edward Curtis Wells (1910–1986) – Boeing executive and designer
Ted A. Wells (1907–1991) – co-founder ofBeech Aircraft Corporation
Michael J. Wendl (born 1934) – developed terrain following technology, energy management theory, and integrated fly-by-wire controls with engine inlets/nozzles and advanced pilot displays
Günter Wendt (1924–2010) – McDonnell Aircraft and North American Aviation engineer; pad leader, prepared all crewed Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft
Alexander Weygers (1901–1989) – discopter designer
Ray Wheeler (1927–2019) – Saunders-Roe designer of rockets and hovercraft
Orville A. Wheelon (1906–1966) – invented the Verson-Wheelon process for aircraft sheet-metal forming, introduced titanium fabrication
Richard Whitcomb (1921–2009) – NACA/NASA inventor of thearea rule,supercritical airfoil, andwinglet
Ed White (1930–1967) – Apollo 1 fire victim on January 27, 1967
Gustave Whitehead (1874–1927) – aviation pioneer
Frank Whittle (1907–1996) – pioneer of thejet engine
Michel Wibault (1897–1963) – inventedvectored thrust
Robert H. Widmer (1916–2011) – lead designer on theB-36,B-58,F-111, andF-16
Sheila Widnall (born 1938) –fluid mechanics researcher
Stanisław Wigura (1901–1932)
Geoff Wilde (1917–2007) – Rolls-Royce engine designer
Heather Willauer (born 1974) –United States Naval Research Laboratory researcher of jet fuel manufacture from seawater
Oswald S. Williams Jr. (1921–2005)
Sam B. Williams (1921–2009) – small fanjet engine developer
Thornton Wilson (1921–1999) –B-47, B-52, andMinuteman missile designer
Steve Wittman (1904–1995) – air-racer and aircraft designer
Julian Wolkovitch (1932–1991) – promoted theclosed wing
Homer J. Wood – auxiliary power unit designer
Pete Worden (born 1949) – NASA director
Wright brothers (1871–1948) (1867–1912) – made first powered airplane flight on Dec 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, NC
Theodore Paul Wright (1895–1970) – engineer and administrator
Georg Wulf (1895–1927) – aviation pioneer
James Hart Wyld (1912–1954) – co-founder of Reaction Motors, designed the rocket engines for the Bell X-1 andRTV-A-2 Hiroc

X

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Xu Shunshou (1917–1968) – oversaw the development of theShenyang JJ-1 and participated in the design of theNanchang CJ-6, theNanchang Q-5, and theXian H-6, died from mistreatment during theCultural Revolution

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Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906–1989) – founder of theOKB-115 Yakovlev design bureau
Mikhail Yangel (1911–1971) – founder of theOKB-586 design bureau
Ye Zhengda (1927–2017) – participated in the design of theShenyang JJ-1
Chuck Yeager (1923–2020) – test pilot and first to break the sound barrier
Vladimir Yermolaev (1909–1944) – lead designer at OKB-240
Ed Yost (1919–2007) – developer of the modernhot air balloon
Arthur M. Young (1905–1995) – designer of the first Bell helicopter

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Albert Francis Zahm (1862–1954) – aeronautical experimenter and chief of the Aeronautical Division of the U.S. Library of Congress
Stephen Joseph Zand (1898–1963) – solved many early aviation vibrations problems
Friedrich Zander (1887–1933) – rocket designer, solar sail and gavitational assist developer
Filippo Zappata (1894–1994) – worked for Gabardini, Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico (CANT), Blériot, Breda, and Agusta
Engelbert Zaschka (1895–1955) – one of the first Germanhelicopter pioneers
Helmut Zborowski (1905–1969) – rocket and VTOL designer
Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838–1917) – airship designer
Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847–1921) – researcher
Henri Ziegler (1906–1998) – father of theAirbus program
Charles H. Zimmerman (1908–1996) – experimental aircraft designer
Robert Zubrin (born 1952) –Mars Society founder, designer of the theoreticalnuclear salt-water rocket
Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974) – astronomer, patented several jet engine features