Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1888, Sept. 12 | Born, Bremen, Germany |
| 1908 | B.S., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1910 | M.A., aeronautics, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1911 | Published Monoplanes and Biplanes: Their Design, Construction and Operation (New York: Munn & Co. 331 pp.) |
| 1911-1912 | Chief engineer, Queen Aeroplane Co., New York, N.Y. |
| 1913-1914 | Chief engineer and general manager, Wright Co., Dayton, Ohio |
| 1914-1916 | Chief aeronautical engineer, United States Army Signal Corps, Aviation Section, San Diego, Calif. |
| 1915 | Published Military Aeroplanes: An Explanatory Consideration of Their Characteristics, Performances, Construction, Maintenance and Operation, for the Use of Aviators (San Diego: Frye & Smith. 17 pp.) |
| 1916-1917 | Vice president and general manager, Sturtevant Aeroplane Co., Boston, Mass. |
| 1917-1918 | President, Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp., New York, N.Y. |
| 1919 | Awarded Distinguished Service Award by the War Department for the design of a two-seater fighting plane |
| 1921 | Awarded Wright and Collier trophies for the Loening Monoplane Flying Yacht |
| 1922 | Founder and president, Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America |
| 1923 | Designed the Loening Cabin Amphibian airplane |
| 1928 | Designed the Loening Air Yacht, a six-passenger amphibian airplane Merger, Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp. and Curtiss-Wright Corp. |
| 1928-1929 | Director and consulting engineer, Curtiss-Wright Corp., Buffalo, N.Y. |
| 1929 | Director, Roosevelt Field, Mineola, N.Y. |
| 1930 | Married Marka Truesdale (divorced 1940) |
| 1930-1938 | President, Grover Loening Aircraft Co., Garden City, N.Y. |
| 1935 | Published Our Wings Grow Faster (Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, Doran & Co. 203 pp.) |
| 1937-1938 | Aeronautical advisor, United States Maritime Commission |
| 1938-1975 | Consulting engineer for the United States government and private industries after retiring from aircraft manufacturing |
| 1939 | Director and consulting engineer, All American Aviation, Pittsburgh, Penn. |
| 1942-1945 | Aircraft consultant, War Production Board, Washington, D.C. |
| 1942-1943 | Technical consultant and coordinator, British Aircraft Engineering Mission headed by Roy Fedden |
| 1945 | Appointed to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Consultant for the United States Navy on experimental aircraft |
| 1947 | Chief of research, President's Air Policy Commission |
| 1948 | Awarded Medal for Merit |
| 1948-1970 | Member, National Air Museum Advisory Board |
| 1950 | Awarded Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy |
| 1951-1969 | Director and consultant, New York Airways, New York, N.Y. |
| 1955 | Published Fifty Years of Flying Progress (Washington, D.C. 216 pp.) |
| 1960 | Awarded Daniel Guggenheim Medal, Society of Automotive Engineers |
| 1966 | Published Takeoff Into Greatness: How American Aviation Grew So Big So Fast (New York: Putnam. 256 pp.) |
| 1970 | Published The Conquering Wing (Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co. 196 pp.) |
| 1973 | Published Amphibian: The Story of the Loening Biplane (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society. 196 pp.) |
| 1976, Apr. 30 | Died, Miami, Fla. |