Sherman Mills Fairchild (Fairchild Sherman Mills)

(1896-1971)
Born April 7, 1896 in Oneonta (pc. New York). He studied at the University of Arizona, at Columbia and Harvard Universities. In dealing with the aerial survey in 1918 constructed a tape transport mechanism with intermittent movement of film, as well as the shutter for automatic Airborne with aperture between the lenses of the lens. In 1922, Fairchild started a company to produce Airborne, and in 1924 - the company to implement the aerial photography. It was from Fairchild Sikorsky has received an order for its first flight, but already in 1925 Fairchild has created a firm that produced the first American airplane with a closed cockpit and hydraulic landing gear. Besides, . Fairchild built a training aircraft with low long wing, . Straight jet engines, air-cooled, . technological process of production of plastics for aircraft structures, . invented many devices for the Airborne and other precision devices,
. He was chairman of the company, Fairchild Camera End ekvipment 'and corporations' Fairchild - Hiller'. Fairchild died in New York on March 28, 1971.