Dr. Jan Roskam | |
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Born | February 22, 1930 |
Died | September 9, 2022 | (aged 92)
Occupation(s) | Engineer, professor |
Jan Roskam (February 22, 1930 – September 9, 2022) was a Dutch-born American aircraft designer. He was the Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Kansas. He was also the author of eleven books on airplane design and flight dynamics and over 160 papers on the topics of aircraft aerodynamics, performance, design and flight controls.[1] He founded the company DARcorporation with Willem Anemaat.