Pioneering Brothers in Aviation

Here’s some more famous pioneering brothers:

Rene & Alphonse Caudron

Henri & Maurice Farman

Oswald, Horace and Eustace Short

Gabriel & Charles Voisin

John & Reginald Duigan

Paul & Pierre Lebaudy

Henri & Armand Dufaux

Albert & Gaston Tissandier

EDIT:
Just noticed some of these have been named already.

The Horten brothers, both pioneers in flying wing development and one ( i forget which ) was a Battle of Britain 109 pilot.

I think the Desoutter Aircraft Company was run by 2 Brothers

And, just to tie you in with Phil’s (:D :dev2: 😀 :diablo: Phil) post, after one of them was injured in a flying accident they turned to building prosthetic limbs. I think you can guess where this is going now…

Adrian

Oswald, Horace and Eustace Short

The three Short Brothers were even joined by a son, Francis, in the family business.
True pioneers. Involved in manufacturing balloons before they negotiated to build Wright flyers under licence and became the worlds first aircraft company.

Scotland’s first aviators were Harold and Frank Barnwell – the former bceame Vickers’ first chief test pilot at Brooklands and the latter joined the Bristol Aeroplane Co where he soon became Chief Designer. Sadly both died before their time in air crashes.

I think the Desoutter Aircraft Company was run by 2 Brothers

Gee Bee – Granville Brothers

Two (or is it four) more.

Percy and Ella Pilcher

and

Gabriel and Charles Voisin.

The de Havilland brothers (and their father).

I’m ashamed to say I can’t remember their names (apart from Geoffrey).

WA$.

Oswald, Horace and Eustace Short

Miles brothers.

Henri and Maurice Farman, Short Brothers,

The Frog dude’s who built D.B.s leg’s!:D :rolleyes:

Leo and Vivian Walsh were among some of NZ’s earliest pioneers. They were the first official powered flyers in NZ, though others have earlier claims to that fame.

They also designed their own flying boats, and began the Walsh Bros. Flying School at Kohimarama, Auckland, which trained many of the NZ pilots whosrved in WWI.

Another Brother-Sister Pair

Another brother/sister pair of important Pioneer aviation period were John B. Moissant (First to fly the English Channel with a passenger in 1910) and his sister Mathilde, who was the second woman aviator to be licensed in the U.S. They both set numerous aviation records of the pre-war period. John flew in some important events in pre-1911 England. They had another brother, Alfred, who ran the “International Aviators” that was founded by John, after John was killed in Dec. 1910.

A bit tenuous maybe – the Wilkes brothers (Maurice and ??) of The Rover Motor Company, Coventry.
Rover built major aircraft components (for AWA) during WW2, were involved in jet engine development and production with Frank Whittle (that ended with the famous ‘exchange’ with Rolls Royce of Rover’s jet engine factory for RRs Meteor tank engine factory) and, post-war, got back into gas turbines and supplied the RAF with a number of aircraft APUs.

Roger Smith.

Janie…
It seems others might be stumped.
I don’t want to monopolize the topic, but if I might be allowed another submission…

Malcolm and Allan Loughead (and to a lesser extent half brother Victor)…Lockheed

Excellent! Thanks. Any more?

Not to be sexist:

How about a sister and brother?

Katherine & Eddie Stinson.

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