WordNet
n. an engineer concerned with the design and construction of aircraft
Usage examples of "aeronautical engineer".
The retired aeronautical engineer had kept his pipe habits, even though Grantville's tobacco supply had long since vanished.
Our informants at the Potomac Towers tell us that an aeronautical engineer named Michael Ryan was absent from the offices.
Voas was neither a flight instructor nor an aeronautical engineer but an industrial psychologist who had been chosen precisely because the training of astronauts was regarded not as a form of pilot training but as a form of psychological adaptation.
He was originally trained as an aeronautical engineer at Cal Tech, and after he retired he worked for Grumman for a while.
Norman was reminded that Barnes had once been an aeronautical engineer.
She had been born in Smolensk in 1970, had been educated as an aeronautical engineer, and in 1984 had become an airship trainee.
I did include an aeronautical engineer in the Ring of Fire, along with a professional Air Force pilot with an aero background, as well as thousands of flying hours (as I have).
His wingman was Corey Ford, a quiet aeronautical engineer from MIT who wanted to become a test pilot because it was a first step to becoming an astronaut.
But I heard an aeronautical engineer, as late as 1943, say just that.
What you're looking at are sails-- Flettner sails, invented by the German aeronautical engineer Anton Flettner, the man who conceived the trim tab for aircraft.
He was an aeronautical engineer specializing in helicopters and he knew the thing she drew was a new secret helicopter that was still on the drawing board!