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Which were the greatest American aircraft designers & engineers of the 20th Century?
1. Alexander de Seversky 3%  3%  [ 5 ]
2. Alexander Kartveli 1%  1%  [ 2 ]
3. Bill Boeing 3%  3%  [ 5 ]
4. Burt Rutan 7%  7%  [ 10 ]
5. Clyde Cessna 2%  2%  [ 3 ]
6. Donald Douglas 9%  9%  [ 13 ]
7. Dutch Kindelberger 6%  6%  [ 9 ]
8. Dwane Wallace 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
9. Ed Heinemann 8%  8%  [ 11 ]
10. Glenn Curtiss 6%  6%  [ 9 ]
11. Howard Hughes 5%  5%  [ 7 ]
12. Igor Sikorsky 7%  7%  [ 10 ]
13. Isaac Laddon 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
14. Jack Northrop 10%  10%  [ 14 ]
15. Kelly Johnson 13%  13%  [ 19 ]
16. Orville & Wilbur Wright 8%  8%  [ 11 ]
17. Roy Grumman 5%  5%  [ 8 ]
18. Ted Smith 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
19. Walter Beech 2%  2%  [ 3 ]
20. William Piper 3%  3%  [ 5 ]
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Ed Heinemann! But I could be biased :P

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Jack Northrop once told me his greatest accomplishment was the Alpha. The mother of modern aircraft. A little known fact is with the help of one of his employees he invented the tig welder in order to build it.

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