William Lear, Sr.
(1902-1978)
- Inventor and businessman born in Missouri
- Developed radio direction finders, autopilots, and the first fully automatic aircraft landing system
- Invented the 8-track cartridge, an audiotape system popular in the 1960s and 1970s
- Founded Lear Jet Corporation in Wichita in 1962 to manufacture business jets
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