See Also: De Havilland, Sir Geoffrey(encyclopedia)
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Hadfield, Geoffrey(medicine)
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Chaucer, Geoffrey(encyclopedia)
Chaucer, Geoffrey(dictionary)
Dawson, George Geoffrey(encyclopedia)
Taylor, Sir Geoffrey Ingram(encyclopedia)
Steptoe, Patrick (Christopher); and Edwards, Robert (Geoffrey)(encyclopedia)

De Havilland, Sir Geoffrey (sh)




born July 27, 1882, Haslemere, Surrey, Eng.
died May 21, 1965, Watford, Hertfordshire

British aircraft designer and manufacturer.

In 1910 he built and flew an airplane with a 50-horsepower engine. He formed his own company in 1920 and built the commercially successful two-seater Moth. In World War II the twin-engined Mosquito was the company's most successful product. After the war he pioneered the manufacture of jet-propelled airplanes with his Comet passenger jet and Vampire and Venom jet fighters.