Grover Loening

Grover Cleveland Loening (born September 12, 1888 in Bremen , † February 29, 1976 in Coconut Grove , Miami, Florida) was an American aircraft designer and aviation pioneer. He was the son of the US consul general .

Loening graduated from Columbia College in 1908 and received his Masters from Columbia University in 1910 , the first in the United States to study aviation. In 1911 he left this university with an engineering degree . He then took a job with the Queen Airplane Company in New York, which built Blériot's aircraft under license. In 1912 he created one of the first flying boats. In 1913 he was hired by Orville Wright at the Wright Company , where he became chief engineer of the US Army Department the following year. In 1916 he became deputy managing director of the Sturdevant Airplane Company , which, as one of the first American aircraft manufacturers, had turned to metal aircraft construction. Finally, in 1917, Loening founded his own company, the Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corporation.

He received the Collier Trophy in 1921 for developing the Loening Air Yacht . In 1937 he switched to the civil service as chief advisor to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), in charge of directing aeronautical research, before finally joining the War Production Board as one of the advisors from 1942 after the USA entered the Second World War was standing.

literature

Monoplanes and Biplanes , Grover Loening, 1910
Military Airplanes , Grover Loening, 1915

personal data
SURNAME	Loening, Grover
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Loening, Grover Cleveland (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American aircraft designer and aviation pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 12, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen
DATE OF DEATH	February 29, 1976
Place of death	Coconut Grove , Miami, Florida