Battlefield: Engineering

"I can't see my enemy - a German designer, who sits with his plueprints somewhere deep in Germany - But i fight him, even without seeing him. I know that, whatever the German does there, i must do better. I concentrate all my will and imagination, all my knowledge and expereince, so that when two new planes - ours and the enemy's - meet each other in war skies, ours will emerge victorious." -Semyon Alexeevich Lavochkin

My humble tribute to some of the greatest designers in aviation history, and their inventions.