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Bruce Aikenhead
Canadian aerospace engineer and physicist (1923–2019)
Bruce Alexander Aikenhead, OC (September 22, 1923 – August 5, 2019) was a Canadian aerospace engineer and physicist. Aikenhead was widely regarded as a major pioneer in the Canadian aerospace industry, who was the deputy program director for the program that developed the Canadarm, was the first Director-General of the Canadian Astronaut Program, and helped create flight simulators for the Avro Arrow project.[1]