W. LeMaitre

Project Gutenberg lists W. LeMaitre as the author of Natural Stability and the Parachute Principle in Aeroplanes. From the title and surviving catalog information, the book appears to belong to the early era of aviation, when designers and writers were closely focused on making aircraft safer, steadier, and easier to control.

Reliable biographical details about LeMaitre are scarce in the sources available here. What can be said with confidence is that this author is associated with a technical work on aeroplane stability rather than a broad body of widely documented publications.

That makes LeMaitre an interesting figure for listeners drawn to the history of flight: not a household name, but part of the conversation around one of the biggest engineering challenges of early aviation.