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Dale Edward Klapmeier | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = United States | residence = Duluth, Minnesota | home town = Dekalb, Illinois | education = Ripon College Wisconsin (Alan) University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (Dale) | occupation = Aircraft Designers, Aviation Entrepreneurs, Chief Executive Officers | years_active = 1984–present | known_for = Cirrus Aircraft founders; Cirrus SR22; Cirrus Vision SF50; Cirrus Airframe Parachute Recovery System; Kestrel K-350; Ernst & Young Entrepreneurs of The Year for Manufacturing; National Aviation Hall of Fame Inductees | employer = One Aviation (Alan) Cirrus Aircraft (Dale) | boards = Alan: EAA, MVP.aero (current) GAMA, Small Aircraft Manufacturers Association (SAMA), AERObridge, AOPA's Air Safety Foundation (former) Dale: AKIA, EAA's Young Eagles Program, AirSpace Minnesota (current) Red Tail Squadron, NASA Aeronautics and Space Engineering, Scott D. Anderson Leadership Foundation (former) | spouse = | parents = Larry and Carol Klapmeier | website = | awards = See below }} The Klapmeier brothers, Alan Lee Klapmeier (born October 6, 1958) and Dale Edward Klapmeier (born July 2, 1961),〔 are American aircraft designers, aviators, and aviation entrepreneurs who together founded the Cirrus Aircraft Corporation in 1984. Under the leadership of the Klapmeiers, Cirrus was the first aircraft manufacturer to install a whole-plane parachute recovery system as a standard on all its models—designed to lower the airplane (and occupants) safely to the ground in case of an emergency. The device is attributed with saving 112 lives to date.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BRS History )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CAPS Training )〕 Cirrus was also the first to use all-composite airframe construction and glass panel cockpits on production aircraft, which many say revolutionized general aviation for light aircraft pilots.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=51 Heroes of Aviation )〕 ''TIME magazine'' credited the Klapmeiers as "giving lift to the small-plane industry with an easy-to-fly design", ''Forbes magazine'' named their highly popular single-engine SR-series (the Cirrus SR20 and SR22) ''Best Private Airplane'', saying "the Klapmeier brothers built the first genuinely new plane in the sky in years", and ''Flying magazine'' ranked Alan and Dale at number 17 on their list of ''51 Heroes of Aviation''.〔 The Klapmeier brothers were inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame on 4 October 2014 in Dayton, Ohio. The brothers started Cirrus in the basement of their parents' rural dairy barn near Baraboo, Wisconsin.〔 Their first design, the VK-30 homebuilt aircraft, had its initial flight on 11 February 1988 and kit deliveries commenced shortly thereafter. Alan left Cirrus in 2009 and became CEO of Kestrel Aircraft in 2010, which in April 2015 was merged with Eclipse Aerospace to form ONE Aviation. Dale has remained at Cirrus serving as the company's CEO since 2011. ==Background== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Klapmeier brothers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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