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Charles Joseph Fletcher

Charles J. Fletcher is an American inventor and businessman, the original inventor of the Hovercraft, holder of over seventy patents, President of Technology General Corporation and author of the autobiography Quest for Survival (2002). Fletcher earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in aeronautical engineering from New York University in 1950. A contributor to the X-15 rocket, Fletcher also worked on the test version of the Lunar Landing Module, and holds seventeen aeronautical patents on vertical lift and rocket engines. Fletcher was inducted into the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame in 1992 and the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame.

  • Fletcher, Charles J. Quest for Survival. (Aurora, Colorado: Glenridge Publishing, Ltd., 2002). ISBN 0944435505