The design has been licensed from David Giles, a British aeronautical engineer turned ship designer.

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"There's definitely a My-thesis-is-cooler-than-yours' aspect, " says Blair, a 43-year-old triathlete and aeronautical engineer.

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Brian Jones's father, Lewis, was an aeronautical engineer and his mother, Louisa, a piano teacher.

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"There's definitely a 'My-thesis-is-cooler-than-yours' aspect, " says Blair, 43, a triathlete and aeronautical engineer.

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Habibie, a 61-year-old German-trained aeronautical engineer, is one of Suharto's closest confidantes.

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"For a young aeronautical engineer, Boeing was definitely the most exciting place to be, " 747 chief engineer Joe Sutter recalled, in his autobiography, of joining the company in 1946.

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But I would rather fly in an airplane with wings designed by one competent aeronautical engineer than one with wings designed by a committee of the first 20, 000 names of non-engineers in the Boston phonebook.

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Set in the remote, post-apocalyptic desert landscape that is Landers, California, the 38-foot high white dome was built in the 1950s as a research facility by George Van Tassel, a test pilot and aeronautical engineer for Howard Hughes.

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Scientists have been trying to find ways to control material properties for a long time, says Paul Lagace, an aeronautical and astronautical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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