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Re: Most Successful Aircraft Designer
Jim - I think you'll find that Kelly Johnson was THE guy on both the P-38 and P-80.
You probably have to consider Nortrup as one of your candidates
Edgar Schmued is more properly the designer of the P-51, the P-82, the P-86 (future F-86), the B-45 (first USAF four jet bomber), the FJ-1 Fury for Navy and the FJ-2 plus the F-100 while he was at North American. The Navion was also his design... so his career extended well beyond WWII
Under his leadership at Northrup he designed the T-38 and F-5 before finally retiring for good as a consultant.
He would rank as my all time aircraft Design engineer..
Willy Messerschmidt certainly has to be one of the very top designers also.
Regards,
Bill Marshall
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