Arque Dickerson

Arque Dickerson was a fighter pilot technical instructor and industrial designers. He was born in 1923 in St. Louis, Missouri. He died on June 18, 2014, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Personal life Arque Dickerson was the son of Carroll Dickerson, a trumpet player and member of Cab Calloway's jazz band. Dickerson was married three times. After his time in the military, where he left as a sergeant in 1946, he enrolled in the Pratt Institute where he went onto study industrial design. As an industrial designer he focused on aircraft interiors, working with Queen Elizabeth II, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Sweden's royal family.

As an industrial designer he focused on aircraft interiors, having designed customs interiors since 1960. He worked alongside engineers to change the design on control panels. His work include "helicopters, private jet planes, and 747s for Northwest Airlines, Canadair, Boeing, Raytheon, and British Aerospace". He believed that "the worst thing you can do is do a design and let things fly apart color and texture-wise".

Before working in aerospace, where he found his "niche", Dickerson worked on designing office furniture and lamps. He has expressed his dislike for lamps. He also worked with other companies designing items that were not related to his industrial design work with airplanes. Working for American Thermos, he designed the first thermos with a handle in the 1950s and while working for Martial and Bars, he designed the Simca Vedette, a French car.