List of aerospace engineers

This is a list of notable aerospace engineers, people who were trained in or practiced aerospace engineering and design.

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A Talbert Abrams (1895–1990) – aerial photography and plexiglas pioneer, designer of the Abrams P-1 Explorer Gerd Achgelis (1908–1991) – helicopter pioneer Jakob Ackeret (1898–1981) – aerodynamicist, proposed the Mach number 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 Oleg Antonov (1906–1984) – founder of the OKB-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) – researched aeroelasticity Lee Atwood (1904–1999) – North American Aviation engineer

B Brunolf Baade (1904–1969) – lead designer of the Baade 152 Erich Bachem (1906–1960) – designer of the Bachem 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 rocket launch complex Frank Barnwell (1880–1938) – chief engineer Bristol Aeroplane Company Robert Ludvigovich Bartini (1897–1974) – designer of the Bartini Beriev VVA-14 and other experimental projects, founder of the OKB-86 design bureau Yaakov Bar-Shalom (born 1941) – researcher of target tracking L. E. Baynes (1902–1989) – designer of the Baynes Bat tank glider Jim Bede (1933–2015) Hermann Behrbohm (1907–1977) – aerodynamicist at Messerschmidt and Saab Rex Beisel (1893–1972) – lead engineer at Curtiss and Vought Giuseppe Mario Bellanca (1886–1960) – aircraft pioneer, blended wing designer Viktor Nikolayevich Belyaev (1896—1953) – strength engineer, designer of the Belyayev DB-LK Dwight Henry Bennett (1917–2002) – developed Fly-by-wire technology, helped design the F2Y, F-102, F-4 Phantom, F/A-18 Thomas W. Benoist (1874–1917) – early airline entrepreneur Igor Bensen (1917–2000) – autogyro designer Max Bentele (1909–2006) – jet engine pioneer Aleksandr Bereznyak (1912–1974) – designer of the BI-1 rocket plane Georgy Beriev (1903–1979) – founder of the OKB-49 Beriev design bureau J. D. Bernal (1901–1971) – invented the Bernal 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 the de 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 William Boeing (1881–1956) – founder of Boeing Charles Bolden (born 1946) – NASA Administrator Viktor Bolkhovitinov (1899–1970) – lead designer of the Bolkhovitinov DB-A bomber, founder of the OKB-293 design bureau Ludwig Bölkow (1912–2003) – aerodynamicist for the Me 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 the Atlas ICBM Enea Bossi Sr. (1888–1963) – aviation pioneer William Hawley Bowlus (1896–1967) – glider designer John Boyd (1927–1997) – created the energy–maneuverability theory Frances Bradfield (1895–1967) – wind tunnel researcher Ferdinand Brandner (1903–1986) – aircraft engine designer Erik Bratt (1916–2010) – lead designer at Saab AB Vance Breese (1904–1973) – engineer and test pilot Louis Charles Breguet (1880–1955) – aviation pioneer, founder of Bréguet Aviation Maurice Brennan (1913–1986) – designer of flying boats, helicopters, transports, rockets, hovercraft Yvonne Brill (1924–2013) – electrothermal hydrazine thruster Lars Brising (1915-1995) – chief designer of the Saab 29 Tunnan Arthur E. Bryson (born 1925) – "father of modern optimal control theory" Isabelle Buret – engineer specializing in telecommunications and astronautics Vincent Burnelli (1895–1964) – blended wing and lifting body designer Anne Burns (1915–2001) – wind shear expert Adolf Busemann (1901–1986) – swept wing Robert W. Bussard (1928–2007) – designer of nuclear thermal rocket engines Fedor Ivanovich Bylinkin – aviation pioneer

C Sydney Camm (1893–1966) – Hawker Hurricane designer Secondo Campini (1904–1980) – jet engine pioneer Giovanni Caproni (1886–1957) – founder of Caproni Albert Caquot (1881–1976) – aviation pioneer George Carter (1889–1969) – designer of the Gloster Meteor 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 of Cessna Roy Chadwick (1893–1947) – design engineer for the Avro 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 a fission-fragment rocket Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003) – died in the Columbia disaster Vladimir Chelomey (1914–1984) – founder of the OKB-52 rocket design bureau Boris Ivanovich Cheranovsky (1896–1960) – flying wing designer 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 the jet engine Richard Coar (1921–2013) – RJ10 rocket engine designer Christopher Cockerell (1910–1999) – hovercraft inventor Dandridge MacFarlan Cole (1921–1965) – Titan II designer Franklin R. Collbohm (1907–1990) – Douglas test pilot, engineer, and executive, co-founder of the RAND Corporation Giuseppe Colombo (1920–1984) – developed the gravitational assist profile used in the Mariner 10 mission to Mercury, invented the space tether Nicholas Comper (1897–1939) – designer of the Comper Swift Philip M. Condit (born 1941) – former CEO of Boeing 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's X-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

D Werner Dahm (1917–2008) Frederick Dallenbach – Auxiliary power unit designer 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 and Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Stuart Davies (1906–1995) – designed the Avro Lancaster and Vulcan 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, authored Engineering Aerodynamics Bertil Dillner (1923–2015) – engineer at Saab and Boeing Paul Bernard Dilworth (1915–2007) Heini Dittmar (1911–1960) – record-breaking pilot Jurgis Dobkevičius (1900–1926) – Lithuanian aviation constructor, military pilot Takeo Doi (1904–1996) – designer for Kawasaki Aircraft Industries Tom Dolan – developed the lunar 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 the Douglas 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 the dirigible; 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

E George Edwards (1908–2003) – designer at Vickers-Armstrongs and BAC Alfred J. Eggers (1922–2006) – NACA / NASA researcher, developed re-entry bodies and compression lift, managed Pioneer program Joe Engle (1932–2024) – astronaut Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881–1957) – aviation and rocketry pioneer, invented the center stick Walter Extra (born 1954) – aerobatic aircraft designer

F Maxime Faget (1921–2004) – designer of the Project Mercury spacecraft Ole Fahlin (1901–1992) – propeller and prototype airplane developer Sherman Fairchild (1896–1971) – founded Fairchild Aircraft Charles Richard Fairey (1857–1956) – founder of the Fairey Aviation Company Farman Brothers Richard Farman (1872–1940) Henri Farman (1874–1958) Maurice Farman (1877–1964) Robert W. Farquhar (1932–2015) – NASA engineer, inventor of the halo orbit Roy Fedden (1885–1973) – British engine designer for Bristol Engine Company Bobak Ferdowsi (born 1979) – JPL flight engineer Antonio Ferri (1912–1975) – created the Ferri scoop used on the jet intakes of the XF-103, F-105, XF8U-3, and SSM-N-9 Regulus II cruise missile, and the diverterless supersonic inlet used on the F-35 Gerhard Fieseler (1896–1987) – German aircraft designer Harold Finger (born 1924) – Project NERVA lead engineer Gary Flandro (born 1934) – NASA researcher, conceived the Planetary Grand Tour fulfilled by the Voyager 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, and Folland 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