Michael Stroukoff
| Michael Stroukoff | |
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| Born |
29 January 1883 Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine |
| Died | 22 December 1973 (aged 90) Trenton, New Jersey |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Spouse(s) | Larissa Stroukoff, Lorraine Wolff Stroukoff |
| Engineering career | |
| Significant design | Fairchild C-123 Provider |
Michael Stroukoff was a Russian-born aircraft designer, who served in the White Army before emigrating to the United States. After spending some time as an architect, he joined the Chase Aircraft Company and designed a number of transport aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces and the United States Air Force, later starting his own company to perform further aeronautical work.
Born 29 January 1883 in Yekaterinoslav (Dnipropetrovsk), a city in the Russian Empire (now part of Ukraine), Stroukoff attended the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, graduating in 1908 with a degree in civic engineering. Joining the Russian Army, he saw service during World War I, then after the war he served in the White Army during the Russian Revolution, attaining the rank of Major and being awarded the Order of St. George of the Fourth Degree. With the defeat of the Whites by the Bolsheviks, he fled Russia and emigrated to the United States in 1922.
Following his emigration, Stroukoff started a career in architecture and interior design, before being appointed chief engineer and president of Chase Aircraft upon its foundation. His first design was the XCG-14, a wooden troop-carrying assault glider, which was developed into the larger CG-18 and CG-20 gliders, the latter being the largest glider ever constructed in the United States.
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