Frank Der Yuen (February 20, 1912 – September 17, 1984)
was an American
aeronautical engineer
Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is si ...
of international acclaim who resided in
Honolulu
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,
Honolulu County, Hawaii
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. He was the inventor of the
jet bridge
A jet bridge (also termed jetway, jetwalk, airgate, gangway, aerobridge/airbridge, skybridge, finger, airtube, expedited suspended passenger entry system (E-SPES), or its official industry name passenger boarding bridge (PBB)) is an enclosed, ...
(passenger boarding bridge), among other inventions. He graduated from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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in 1933.
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Recognition
In his recognition, the Frank Der Yuen Aviation Scholarship is awarded by the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor.
References
1912 births
1984 deaths
Aeronautical engineers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Engineers from Hawaii
20th-century American engineers
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