Ed Heinemann 
Ed Heinemann
Excellent—I work in aerospace—including time spent on two of Heinemann’s babies the A3 Skywarrior or “Whale” as well as the A4 (”Heinemann’s Hot Rod”) and I didn’t know that. Thank you.
William Boeing, the 2 Loughead brothers(Lockheed), and Jack Northrop didn’t have degrees either. Gordon Bethune, who was an excellent CEO who saved Continental Airlines, didn’t. I don’t think Allan Paulson (founded Gulfstream) did either.
Neither did one of our great unsung Americans—Andrew Jackson Higgins—developer of the Higgins Boat in WW II-Eisenhower said about him “More than any one individual-he won the war for us”