Crawford, Frederick C(oolidge) (1891-1994)

US corporate executive and aircraft pioneer. He worked for Thompson Products, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, 1916-59, becoming its president after 1933. A leader of the US industrial war effort, he converted production to aircraft during World War II.

He was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, and trained at Harvard as a civil engineer. He was an outspoken opponent of organized labour. In 1993 he was inducted into the US Aviation Hall of Fame.