Ernő Rubik (aircraft designer)
Ernő Rubik (27 November 1910 in Pöstyén, Austria-Hungary, now Piešťany, Slovakia – 13 February 1997) was a Hungarian aircraft designer and father of Ernő Rubik, the architect who became famous for his mechanical puzzles (e.g. the Rubik's Cube).
Biography[]
During the 1930s, he designed several gliders for manufacture by , the sport flying association of the Budapest Technical University. In the years following the Second World War, these designs were followed by a number of powered aircraft, making Rubik the country's most prolific aircraft designer.[1] These were manufactured by his own enterprise, in Esztergom, until the firm was nationalised in 1948 as .[1]
One of his most famous aircraft is the R-26 Góbé, a popular training glider in Hungary.
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- ^ Jump up to: a b Simpson 1995, 218
References[]
- Simpson, R. W. (1995). Airlife's General Aviation. Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing.
Categories:
- 1910 births
- 1997 deaths
- People from Piešťany
- Hungarians in Slovakia
- 20th-century Hungarian inventors
- Aircraft designers