The Business Aviation Quiz: Guess The Business Aviation Luminary

Guess the business aviation luminaries in this week’s quiz. 

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Refusing to collaborate with his country’s German occupiers, French aircraft designer Marcel Bloch was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp where he endured torture and deprivation until his liberation in 1945. Post-war he assumed the nom de guerre of his brother, Darius, a general in the Resistance: Dassault.

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Former Gulfstream Chairman Allen Paulson laid down some big bets in his life, gambling on the development and success of the G-III, and on horses, notably investing in Cigar, a thoroughbred he named after a waypoint and which went on to break almost all racing records, earning Paulson millions and entry into racing’s Hall of Fame.

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As a Shell Oil Co. executive, Jimmy Doolittle successfully championed the creation of high-octane avgas which later powered Allied aircraft to victory in World War II, a conflict during which his exploits earned him a Medal of Honor and the three stars of lieutenant general.

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Lawrence “Larry” Bell’s company made fighters, America’s first jet-powered airplane and the rocket-powered X-1, Chuck Yeager’s “Glamorous Glennis”, the first aircraft to exceed Mach 1, before concentrating on an all-new kind of aircraft, the helicopter.

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Dwayne Wallace, Clyde Cessna’s nephew and future head of the eponymous company, used his winnings from air racing and exhibition flying to pay workers at the once shuttered planemaker and help propel it to general aviation dominance.

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