George Jackson Mead (December 27, 1891 to January 20, 1949) was an American aircraft engineer, best known as one of the chief founding team members, together with Frederick Rentschler, of Pratt and Whitney Aircraft. Mead and Rentschler left Wright Aeronautical with the plan to start their own aviation-related business and founded Pratt and Whitney Aircraft in July 1925. Their first project was a new, large, air-cooled radial aircraft engine of Mead's design, which soon came to be named the Wasp. Mead was the head of engineering for Pratt and Whitney from 1925 to 1935 and later served as president of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
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George Jackson Mead (December 27, 1891 Everett, Massachusetts, January 20, 1949 Hartford, Connecticut) was an American aircraft engineer.
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He is best known as one of the chief founding team members, together with Frederick Rentschler, of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft.
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Rentschler persuaded the board of Niles Bement Pond that their Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool (P&WMT) subsidiary of Hartford, Connecticut, should provide the funding and location to build a new aircraft engine being developed by Rentschler, George J. Mead, and colleagues, all formerly of Wright Aeronautical.
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