| 词条 | Giuseppe Mario Bellanca |
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|name = Giuseppe Mario Bellanca |image = Giuseppe Mario Bellanca.jpg |image_size = |caption = Bellanca circa 1930 |birth_name = |birth_date = March 19, 1886 |birth_place = Sciacca, Italy |death_date = {{Death date and age|1960|12|26|1886|3|19}} |death_place = New York City |death_cause = |resting_place = |resting_place_coordinates = |residence = |nationality = |other_names = |known_for = |education = |employer = |occupation = |home_town = |title = |salary = |networth = |boards = |religion = |spouse = |partner = |children = August Bellanca |parents = |relatives = |signature = |website = |footnotes = }} Giuseppe Mario Bellanca (March 19, 1886 – December 26, 1960) was an Italian-American airplane designer and builder who created the first enclosed-cabin monoplane in the United States in 1922. This aircraft is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. BiographyHe was born on March 19, 1886 in Sciacca, Italy. He graduated with an engineering degree from Politecnico di Milano. He emigrated to Brooklyn in the United States in October 1911 where he operated the Bellanca Flying School (1912–16).{{#tag:ref |Bellanca taught Fiorello La Guardia how to fly in exchange for driving lessons.[1]| group="nb"}} In 1921, he moved to Omaha, Nebraska, and with Victor Roos, formed the Roos-Bellanca Aircraft Company. On July 4, 1927, he was featured on the cover of Time.[2] In that year, he entered into a partnership with Charles A. Levine and formed the Columbia Aircraft Corp.[2] On April 25, 1927, Clarence Chamberlin and Bert Acosta set a new world's non-refueled endurance record in the WB-2.[2] After the short-lived partnership with Levine, Bellanca formed a new company, The Bellanca Aircraft Corporation of America in a financial partnership with the DuPont Family. The company would go on to develop a wide range of general aviation and light commercial aircraft. American Champion still produces products with a Bellanca lineage.[3] In 1941, Bellanca became the head of the aviation department at Higgins Industries, Inc., in New Orleans. He designed cargo aircraft during World War II. In 1954, he formed the Bellanca Development Company.[2] He died from leukemia at Memorial Hospital in New York City on December 26, 1960.[4] ArchiveIn 1993, his papers were archived at the National Air and Space Museum.[2] See also
Notes1. ^{{cite web|url= http://airandspace.si.edu/research/arch/findaids/bellanca/gmb_sec_1.html|title=The Giuseppe M. Bellanca Collection|date=|publisher=National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division|accessdate=2013-08-23}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web |url=http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/arch/findaids/bellanca/gmb_sec_3.html |title=Biographical and Historical Notes |accessdate=2011-11-20 |quote= |publisher=National Air and Space Museum }} 3. ^{{cite book|title=A History in the Making: 80 Turbulent Years in the American General Aviation Industry|author=Donald M. Pattillo|page=17}} 4. ^{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Air Pioneer Dies at 70 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0GAhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9oYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4958,3460158&dq=giuseppe-mario-bellanca&hl=en |quote=Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, one of the great figures of aviation history, is dead at 74. He died at Memorial Hospital Monday of leukemia. ... |newspaper=Associated Press in the Tri City Herald |date=December 22, 1960 |accessdate=2011-11-20 }} References{{commons category}}{{reflist}}{{Bellanca}}{{Wright aircraft}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Bellanca, Giuseppe Mario}} 13 : 1886 births|1960 deaths|People from Sciacca|Italian emigrants to the United States|American people of Sicilian descent|Aviation inventors|Aviation pioneers|Members of the Early Birds of Aviation|Polytechnic University of Milan alumni|Deaths from leukemia|Flight endurance record holders|American aviation record holders|20th-century American inventors |
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