Howard Hughes produced Hell's Angels and Scarface, bought RKO Pictures, founded Hughes Aircraft and built the H-4 Hercules 'Spruce Goose'.
William Boeing founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, renamed Boeing in 1917, now among the world's largest aerospace manufacturers and the biggest US exporter by value.
Palmer Luckey designed the Oculus Rift headset that revived virtual reality, then co-founded the defense technology company Anduril in 2017.
Founded in 1940 to assemble aeroplanes under licence, HAL now designs India's fighter jets and helicopters — Tejas, Dhruv, Prachand — from 21 manufacturing divisions and 11 R&D centres, with an order book of roughly ₹2.54 lakh crore.
