Born: November 22, 1895, Temple Texas

Died: June 21, 1964, Long Island, New York

Education: St. Peters College, New Jersey

• Designer A.B.C. Exhibition Co, New York City, 1914
• Assistant Technical Editor of Aircraft Magazine 1915-1916
• Chief Designer, International Aircraft Co., Washington, D.C., 1916
• Chief Engineer and superintendent, Continental Aircraft Co., Amityville, L.I. New York, 1917
• Chief Engineer & Factory Superintendent, Lawson Aircraft Co., Green Bay and Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1918
• Chief Engineer, Superintendent, Nebraska Aircraft Co., Lincoln, Nebraska, 1920
• Organized Remington-Burnelli Co., 1921
• Vice President, Chapman-Burnelli, 1926
• Vice President and General Manager, Uppercu-Burnelli Aircraft Corp., 1929
• Vice President, General Manager, Burnelli Aircraft Corp., 1935
• Consultant, Cunliffe Owen Aircraft Corp., England, 1938
• Consulting Engineer, Higgins Aircraft Corp., New Orleans, 1940
• Consulting Engineer, Canadian Car & Foundry, Montreal, 1941
• President, Central Aircraft Corporation, 1940
• Chairman, The Burnelli Company, 1961

• 92 U.S. & foreign patents, including:
  • Conceived of and reduced to practice:
    • the lifting body principle of design, (1921 RB-1)
    • the breakaway leading edge in combination with high-lift flaps (1929 GX-3)
    • the end-plating of the wing-tips (now called winglets) (1929 GX-3)
  • built first multi-engine aircraft with retractable landing gear (1927 CB-16)
  • reduced to practice the use of flat metal stressed-skin construction in the first American aircraft so designed (1930 UB-20)

• 1944 Fawcett Honor Award for his "Major Contribution to the Scientific Advancement of Aviation"

• Early Birds
• Quiet Birdmen
• Associate Fellow, Institute of Aeronautical Science
• National Aviation Association
• Chamber of Commerce
• Engineers (NYC)
• Royal Aero Society (London, England)

• Misc. Articles to technical magazines.

• Glider Pilot, Staten Island, New York, 1915
• Powered Aircraft Pilot, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1919

• Lt. (jg) Volunteer Naval Reserve, 1916

• Who's Who in World Aviation, 1957
• Who's Who in Aviation 1942-1943
• The Burnelli Company, Inc.