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factory at Keyport, New Jersey. There he designed and built an airliner for P.W. Chapman, who owned and operated Sky Lines, Incorporated. This plane was a 90 foot span, all-metal externally braced monoplane powered by two Curtiss Conqueror 600 h.p. engines. It [[strikethrough]] was designed to [[/strikethrough]] incorporated Burnelli's lifting fuselage ideas and was flight tested at Newark Airport by Lieutenant Leigh Wade in December, 1928. Burnelli remained at the Keyport facility for some time and later the name of the firm was changed to Burnelli Aircraft Corporation. In 1929 he entered a special plane in the Guggenheim Safety Plane Competition.

From 1938-1940 Burnelli was associated with the Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft Corporation in England. Returning to the United States in 1940, he became a consulting engineer with the  Higgins Aircraft Corporation, New Orleans, Louisiana. From 1944 to 1946 he was consulting engineer with the Canadian Car and Foundry Company of Montreal, Canada.

Burnelli never lost faith and interest in the basic [[strikethrough]] virtues [[/strikethrough]] advantages of his lifting body [[strikethrough]] type [[/strikethrough]] aircraft and for some time maintained the firm of V. J. Burnelli, Inc [[strikethrough]]orporated[[/strikethrough]] to further study and promote his advanced ideas. He held a basic U. S. patent covering this, as well as scores of U. S. and foreign patents on [[strikethrough]] advanced [[/strikethrough]] aircraft improvements.

A member of the Early Birds, QB's, I.A.S. and many clubs and societies, Burnelli died of a stroke at Southhampton, Long Island Hospital on June 22 [[strikethrough]] d [[/strikethrough]], 1964, at age 69. He was survived by his wife, two daughters and three sisters.

Aviation pioneer, Early Bird Vincent J. Burnelli was truly one of the early American pioneer aviation engineers and aircraft development executives. His noteworthy contributions are legend and few men [[strikethrough]] indeed [[/strikethrough]] equalled his vision and talents in this field. His ideas and efforts seem to have been ahead of their time. [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] He deserves great credit for his worthy efforts.

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