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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

Down 1. Ercoupe aircraft was designed by 2. Invented the trubojet engine in 1930 4. Aeronautical engineer who invented the autogiro 5. On October 7, 1963, his vision of a high speed, high luxury, corporate jet became a reality 7. One of the Soviet Union’s foremost aircraft designers including the world’s first supersonic passenger plane 9. Pioneered a state-of-the-art foam-and-fiberglass composite construction method in homebuilts. 10. Aircraft included the FW-190 a fighter and attack aircraft 11. British designer more than fifty aircraft like the Mosquito 13. Most known for his work with gliders, influenced Wright Brothers airfoil design 16. During World War II he was in charge of all aircraft production in Italy 18. His light attack design resulted in the production of 2,960 Skyhawks 19. Established Compagnie Des Messageries Avienne, now named Air France 20. Original name was Marcel Bloch he changed his last name became a major part in the revival of the French aircraft industry 21. Invented the Bell helicopter 25. Designed and successfully demonstrated in 1940 the rocket powered ME 163 interceptor at speeds in excess of 600 MPH a world record 26. Designed and developed the Spitfire 29. Birth of Strategic Bombing in October 1915 with squadron-size raids by numerous ships 32. His passion was to build a flying wing 33. First to fly 34. American aircraft designer noted for his work on small amphibious aircraft 37. The father of the world famous Soviet ‘MIG’ series of combat aircraft 38. Autogyros 39. Aerocar 40. Project Manager of Lockheed’s Advanced Development Projects Division 41. Scaled Composites 46. He develops an exhaust gas-driven turbo-supercharger