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    William Starling Burgess (December 25, 1878 – March 19, 1947) was an American yacht designer, aviation pioneer, and naval architect. He was awarded the...
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    Roman's roman or regular style was based on a 1904 design of William Starling Burgess. This theory remains controversial. Parker and his friend Gerald Giampa...
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    Fair. Fuller built three experimental prototypes with naval architect Starling Burgess – using donated money as well as a family inheritance – to explore...
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  • as Starling Burgess, the daughter of naval architect W. Starling Burgess and noted portrait painter Rosamund Tudor. At birth, she was named "Starling" after...
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    Britain. Other boats raced in J Class regattas: the yachts Katoura (Starling Burgess, 1927), Resolute (Nathanael Herreshoff, 1914) and Vanitie (William...
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    (after W. Starling Burgess and Greely S. Curtis, its co-founders with Frank Henry Russell). The company was an offshoot of the W. Starling Burgess Shipyard...
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    daughter Rosamond married William Starling Burgess). She was born in Boston in 1915 and was named Starling Burgess for her father. Her father soon re-named...
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    Rainbow (yacht) (category Sailing yachts designed by William Starling Burgess)
    America's Cup. It was ordered by Harold Vanderbilt and designed by William Starling Burgess. Rainbow was scrapped in 1940. A replica, Rainbow, was launched in...
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  • Raymond Creekmore Robert Perry Robert W. Ball Ron Holland Sandy Douglass Starling Burgess Ted Gozzard Ted Hood Ted Irwin Tony Castro VPLP William Fife William...
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    of the Burgess & Curtis Aircraft Factory, where it was the first licensed aircraft manufacturer in the United States. William Starling Burgess designed...
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    Royal Rainbow (1992-1999) - Automatic chronograph. Named for a William Starling Burgess Design J Class sailboat that won the 1934 America's Cup. Respirator...
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    later D.8 was license-built and sold commercially by W. Starling Burgess in America as the Burgess-Dunne. He also returned to his monoplane. The D.6 of 1911...
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  • Nicholsons Albert Turnner 14 1930 Newport Harold S. Vanderbilt W. Starling Burgess Herreshoff Manufacturing Co Harold S. Vanderbilt Enterprise New York...
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  • 1927 Tally Ho Baron Stalbridge Albert Strange 1928 Niña Paul Hammond Starling Burgess 1929 Jolie Brise Lt Cdr E. G. Martin Alexandre Pâris 1930 Jolie Brise...
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  • where, the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company's new naval architect Starling Burgess used his success in the M-Class and his experience as a wartime plane...
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  • Enterprise (yacht) (category Sailing yachts designed by William Starling Burgess)
    a syndicate headed by Vice-Commodore Winthrop Aldrich, designed by Starling Burgess, and built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. She was named Enterprise...
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    Ranger (yacht) (category Sailing yachts designed by William Starling Burgess)
    1937. She was designed by Starling Burgess and Olin Stephens, and constructed by Bath Iron Works. Stephens would credit Burgess with actually designing...
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  • staysail ketch Corelia Columbia 48.00 m (157 ft) Eastern Shipbuilding Starling Burgess 2014 Steel replica of the Grand Banks fishing schooner Columbia (1923)...
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  • had a long history in connection with America's Cup. He assisted W. Starling Burgess with the design of the J-Class Ranger, which won the America's Cup...
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    The Atlantic is a one-design keelboat, designed by Starling Burgess in 1928. It is a 30-foot open-cockpit day sailer, typically used for day racing, rather...
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    build and race a plane in the Gordon Bennett Cup Race. They hired Starling Burgess to build their plane in his boat yard in Marblehead, Massachusetts...
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    Sperry, for the invention of gyroscopic control. 1915 – W. Starling Burgess, for the Burgess-Dunne BD series of semi-flying wing seaplanes. 1916 – Elmer...
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    this and to become their own engineer was Rosamund Burgess, wife of boat designer Starling Burgess. A more popular alternative to the steam launch was...
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    Beck as the Curtiss instructor. William Starling Burgess also brought a licensed Wright Model B named the Burgess Model F. The military aviation school...
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    he left Curtiss and joined Starling Burgess in Marblehead, Massachusetts to design and build aeroplanes. He left Burgess after a year, following disagreements...
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  • yacht racer William J. Burgess (died 1996), American politician William Oakley Burgess (died 1844), engraver William Starling Burgess (1878–1947), American...
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    Corporation and built three prototypes with noted naval architect Starling Burgess and a team of 27 workmen — using donated money as well as a family...
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    Starling Burgess would follow him in his profession of yacht design. Examples of pilot boats Burgess designed were the Varuna and the Adams. Burgess married...
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    boats and other specialised vessels. In 1928, the yard began building Starling Burgess' Atlantic one-design; at this time, the post-war economy made European-built...
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    the Royal Flying Corps; it was also manufactured under licence by Starling Burgess to the United States Navy amongst other customers. Dunne's work ceased...
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