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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 82. Chapters: Wernher von Braun, Juan de la Cierva, George Cayley, Herman Poto nik, Pavel Sukhoi, Gustave Whitehead, Dorian Shainin, W adys aw Turowicz, Assen Jordanoff, Alexander P. de Seversky, Richard Pearse, Robert Kronfeld, Theodore von Karman, Henri Coand, Lawrence Hargrave, John William Dunne, Jan Roskam, List of Russian aerospace engineers, Dragan ilas, Harry Hawker, Eugen Sanger, Ferdinand Brandner, Francis Rogallo, Satish Dhawan, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, Ramesh K. Agarwal, Per Lindstrand, Antony Jameson, JoAnn H. Morgan, List of aerospace engineers, Robert B.C. Noorduyn, Martin Schempp, Shafkat Chowdhury, Helmut Schelp, Tung Hua Lin, Raoul Hafner, Ave Kludze, Edgar Schmued, John Hodge, Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy, Elie Carafoli, Richard T. Whitcomb, Ernst R. G. Eckert, William Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill, Jurgis Kairys, B. N. Suresh, Ozires Silva, John Argyris, Antonio Ferri, James DeLaurier, Kitaw Ejigu, Jakob Ackeret, Ali H. Nayfeh, Lars Grimsrud, Peter M. Bowers, Louis Dunn, Semyon Kosberg, Vaino Jack Vehko, Marcel Lobelle, Irene Bredt, Pavel Bene, Miroslav Hajn, Pablo de Leon, Bela Magyari, Ary Abramovich Sternfeld, Louis de Monge, George Spangenberg, Gary Hudson, Alan H. Epstein, Wang Yongzhi, Rick Freuler, Vladimir Sergeyevich Vakhmistrov, Eric Harold Mansfield. Excerpt: Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 - June 16, 1977) was a German rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany during World War II and in the United States after that. A former member of the Nazi party, commissioned Sturmbannfuhrer of the paramilitary SS and decorated Nazi war hero, von Braun would later be regarded as the preeminent rocket engineer of the 20th century in his role with the United States civilian space ag...
