Charles Lawrance

Charles Lanier Lawrance ( born September 30, 1882 in Lenox (Massachusetts ), † June 24, 1950 in East Islip ) was an American engineer and businessman.

Lawrance visited by his education, Yale University and worked until 1907 in an automobile producers. He then went to Paris to study architecture. At the same time he worked on the new aviation and worked in the laboratory of Gustave Eiffel on an eight -cylinder engine. He also hired experiments with different airfoils, until 1914, he went back to the U.S., where he realized his knowledge in the development and production of air-cooled aircraft engines.

To this end he founded in 1916 the Lawrance Aero Engine Corporation. His engines had good performances, and he could also sell to the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army. In 1920, he secured for his company a development order for a 200 -horsepower radial engine. However, the company was not able to fix the problems with the engine Lawrance J -1, and so sold his company Lawrance on May 15, 1923, the Wright Aeronautical and was chief engineer. After the departure of Frederick Brant Rentschler Lawrance took over the management.

Initiated by his design was further developed and as a Wright J- 5 and its successors finally a commercial success. Particular attention has been focused on this type, as Charles Lindbergh in 1927 in an equipped with this engine machine was the first to cross the Atlantic alone. Following the merger of Wright Aeronautical with the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company Lawrance left in 1930 the newly established company Curtiss -Wright to become self-employed. The Lawrance Engineering & Research Corporation focused on the development and production of equipment of aircraft, particular with generators.

1927 received Lawrance for the development of its air-cooled radial engine, the Collier Trophy.

• Aviation pioneer
• Aeronautical engineer
• Americans
• Born in 1882
• Died in 1950
• Man