Norman de Bruyne, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Norman de Bruyne

English aircraft engineer

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1904

Date of Death: 07-Mar-1997

Profession: businessperson, engineer, aerospace engineer

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Norman Adrian de Bruyne FRS was born in Punta Arenas Chile on 8 November 1904, baptised on 19 March 1905 at the Anglican St.
James Church, by the Rev.
Edwin Aspinall.
His father was Dutch and his mother English.
He grew up in England, studied science at the University of Cambridge and became a physics researcher.
Around 1930, he became interested in aviation.
de Bruyne was the first student of the new flying school which Arthur Marshall established in Cambridge in 1931