Lars Harald Brising (1915-1995) was a Swedish engineer and aircraft designer. He is best known for having been chief designer for

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which flew for the first time in 1948. He became

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(the head) of the

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. Lars Brising was the son of

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n Harald Brising. He underwent flight training in the

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in 1936 and graduated from the

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(KTH) in 1938. He worked at the

1938–1939 and then became designer at

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's aviation department in 1939 and was active at

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in Finland 1940. Brising was then flight test manager at

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1940–1941, section manager at the

design office 1941–1943. He became technical manager of Saab's flight test department in 1943, became project engineer in 1945, construction manager for

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in 1946,

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for construction in 1949, head of the aeronautics department in 1952 and director in 1954. He became

at the

in 1965 and was its head 1967–1968. As head of the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration, he was also a member of

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.King. Maj:t's instruction for the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration, SFS 1965: 832, p. 1996. Brising was CEO for Svenska Utvecklings AB (a governmental tech and business development company) 1968–1975. Brising became a member of the

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in 1956 and of the

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in 1964. He was promoted to

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at KTH in 1974.

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External links

Lars Brising – Uppslagsverk – NE.se

Lars Brising. Konstruktionschef hos Saab – DN.SE
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brising, Lars Artists from Stockholm 1915 births 1995 deaths Aircraft designers 20th-century Swedish engineers Aerodynamicists Swedish civil engineers Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

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