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Swen (Sven) Swanson (1897/98 – February 1935) was a Swedish aircraft designer. He designed aircraft for various aviation companies in the United States and also designed prototype and experimental airplanes. He was known as an innovative aircraft designer. He later worked in partnership with Ole Fahlin. Swanson started designing airplanes while in his teens and by the time he was in college he had designed his third airplane. He founded the Swanson Aircraft Company Inc. and became its chief engineer and president. While working for his own company he designed and built the Swanson W-15 Coupe. He has been described as a "brilliant man of great capabilities and extreme modesty". ==Career== Swanson designed and constructed,〔 his first home-built airplane in 1915 when he was 17 years old which was a one-person monoplane which could have been retroactively named the SS1.〔〔 At age 19 he designed and built his second airplane, a one-person biplane, which could have been retroactively called the SS2.〔 In 1922, while a college student, he designed his third aircraft, the biplane SS3, standing for "Swanson Sport", featuring fuselage made of wood and monocoque design and using a two-cylinder Lawrance engine.〔〔 He also designed the Kari-Keen 90 Sioux Coupe and the Arrow Sport. These airplanes featured the characteristic Swanson cantilever wing design. The Swanson planes also shared a similar seating configuration; the two-passengers were seated beside each other.
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