William Powell Lear (June 26, 1902 – May 14, 1978) was an American inventor and businessman. He is best known for founding Learjet, a manufacturer of business...

John Olsen Lear (December 3, 1942 – March 29, 2022), son of Learjet magnate Bill Lear, was an aviator who set multiple records, later flying cargo planes...

FFA P-16. The basic structure of the Swiss P-16 aircraft was seen by Bill Lear and his team as a good starting point to the development of a business...

configuration. The Lear Fan never entered production. The Lear Fan was designed by Bill Lear, but not completed before his death in 1978. It was planned...

The Stereo 8 Cartridge was created in 1964 by a consortium led by Bill Lear, of Lear Jet Corporation, along with Ampex, Ford Motor Company, General Motors...

Look up Lear, lear, or léar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up leir, leír, léir, or lèir in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lear or Leir may...

King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age...

Olsen Lear (March 27, 1915 – December 5, 2001) was an American businesswoman and philanthropist who was the wife of aviation pioneer Bill Lear. Moya Marie...

Milton Lear (July 27, 1922 – December 5, 2023) was an American screenwriter and producer who produced, wrote, created, or developed over 100 shows. Lear created...

600 series is a family of business jets developed by Canadair after a Bill Lear concept, and then produced from 1986 by its new owner, Bombardier Aerospace...

Bill Lear (1902–1978), American inventor and businessman, founder of the Lear Jet Corporation Bill Lennon (1845–1910), American baseball player Bill Maher...

William M. Lear is an American politician from Kentucky who was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1985 to 1995. Lear was first elected...

ParaNet poster John Lear. Lear, the son of Learjet founder Bill Lear, identified as a pilot who had flown missions for the CIA. Lear was the author of a...

Lear Siegler Incorporated (LSI) is a diverse American corporation established in 1962. Its products range from car seats and brakes to weapons control...

and Australia. Stereo 8 was created in 1964 by a consortium led by Bill Lear of Lear Jet Corporation, along with Ampex, Ford Motor Company, General Motors...

a Learjet, and he was named vice president of the Learjet Company by Bill Lear as an honorary title (he had no line responsibility at the company). He...

of which was managed by Bill Cooper, Lear Corporation Global Quality Systems Senior Quality Manager. On April 5, 2004, Lear announced it would pay $220...

latter was a direct derivative of the former. According to Bill Lear's son, William P. Lear, the designs of the P-16 and the Learjet possessed substantial...

Grace. She had serenity." In 1956, Kelly resided in a home rented from Bill Lear in the Pacific Palisades, California for the duration of her filming....

the last legacy Learjet, using a variation of the wing that designer Bill Lear adapted from the Swiss military aircraft, the FFA P-16.[citation needed]...

jet. Originally conceived of by the American aviation inventor Bill Lear as the LearStar 600, at the end of 1975, Canadair gave its backing to the concept;...

Emil Matthew "Matty" Laird, Lloyd Stearman, Walter Beech, Al Mooney and Bill Lear began aircraft-manufacturing enterprises that led to Wichita becoming...

Brandstetter was first elected in 1994 after incumbent representative Bill Lear retired. He was defeated for reelection in 1998 by Democrat Susan Westrom...

Floyd E. "Bill" Lear was an American football and basketball coach. Lear was the head football coach at Alma College in Alma, Michigan. He held that position...

including takeoff and landing, completely under the control of an autopilot. Bill Lear developed his F-5 automatic pilot, and automatic approach control system...

cartridge system, electronics and aerospace entrepreneur Bill Lear had an employee of Lear Jet Corporation create a modified derivative, resulting in...

total of 141 passengers were on board, including Neil Armstrong and Bill Lear's widow, Moya. The previous speed record of 45 hours, 26 minutes, and 55...

1941), Australian music composer Moya Lear (1915–2001), American businesswoman and wife of aviation pioneer Bill Lear Moya Llewelyn Davies (1881–1943), Irish...

as Russian Premier Yvonne Craig as Natasha, the Ballerina Bill Lear – credited as W. P. Lear Sr. – makes a cameo appearance as himself. Coburn later said...

– featuring a protagonist who was a loose composite of Howard Hughes, Bill Lear, Harry Cohn, and Louis B. Mayer. The Carpetbaggers takes the reader from...