“Kelly” Johnson, the head of Lockheed’s Skunk Works and the mastermind behind the U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance airplanes. (Seversky Aero later became Seversky Aircraft Corporation.) But by 1939 the firm had lost $550,000, and in a twist of fate the board of directors forced Seversky out and eradicated his name from the company, which they renamed the Republic Aviation Corporation.Īmong de Seversky’s stable of designers was a young Alexander Kartveli-thought by many to have been in the same league as the legendary Clarence L. government bought the patent rights to the bombsight for $50,000, Seversky settled in New York and, in 1922, used the money to establish the Seversky Aero Corporation on Long Island. de Seversky, a wealthy Russian who lost a leg as a naval pilot in World War I and in 1918 emigrated to the United States, where he developed a synchronized, automatic bombsight for the Sperry Gyroscope Company. The novel would be based on fact, namely the life of Alexander P.
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