Across |
3. | Co-founded aircraft company with his wife Olive Ann |
6. | Designer of Zenith Aircraft Company's line of kit aircraft |
8. | Created innovations such as the flying platform, the Coleopter |
10. | DR-1 tri-plane |
11. | In 1920 in California he formed his own aircraft company in Santa Monica |
12. | Cirrus Design Corporation is an aircraft manufacturer that was founded in 1984 |
14. | Created unusual homebuilt delta-wing aircraft in the 1960s |
15. | The Father of Human-Powered Flight |
17. | His company produced the world’s first operational jet fighter, sewing machines and motor scooters |
19. | First to fly an aircraft across the English Channel |
22. | Designed the Piper J-3 Cub |
23. | In 1925 founded with Walter Beech, the Travel Air Manufacturing Company in Wichita KS |
24. | Among his notable achievements were the production of the U.S. Navy’s first carrier based jet fighter |
27. | In 1916 he established an aircraft company called "Pacific Aero Products" |
28. | German inventor, designed and developed many of the German helicopters |
30. | Originally founded as the Taylor Brothers Aircraft Manufacturing Company |
31. | his American civil engineer is considered one of the early pioneers of flight |
35. | Originally Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company |
36. | He developed the world’s first true rocket plane and the first operational jet plane |
42. | His first successful aircraft was the S-2 |
43. | MB-1 twin engined bomber of 1918, B-10 bomber and China Clippers, Marauder bombers |
44. | Developed a special wingtip "winglet", |
45. | In 1928 an aircraft of his design, the Bremen, completed the first nonstop East-West transatlantic flight |
46. | Brothers Albert and Arthur with Charles "Pappy" Yankey build a small single-seater |
47. | He competed with the Wright Brothers to build the first manned airplane that could fly under its own power |