methods in the flight testing of aircraft for basic design and performance data." The Boeing Company dedicated its high-speed wind tunnel and aeronautical research laboratories to him. Those facilities are still known today as the Edmund T. Allen Memorial Aeronautical Laboratories. In the 1952 film Above and Beyond, it is mentioned that Allen was killed in a test flight of the B-29. References 1896 births 1943 deaths American aerospace engineers American test pilots Aviators from Illinois Boeing people Boeing test pilots People from Chicago Recipients of the Air Medal United States airmail pilots Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in the United States Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1943 Accidental deaths in Washington (state) Engineers from Illinois 20th-century American engineers