Alexander P. de Seversky

(1894–1974) Military Flight Engineer

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Alexander P. de Seversky was a military flight engineer.

Quick Facts About Alexander P. de Seversky

Born: June 7, 1894
Died: August 24, 1974
Profession: Military Flight Engineer

About Alexander P. de Seversky

Russian-American aviation pioneer... | Alexander Nikolayevich Prokofiev de Seversky was a Russian-American aviation pioneer, inventor, and influential advocate of strategic air power. He was also a World War I flying ace.

Quotes by Alexander P. de Seversky

Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only…

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I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The…

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Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.

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