High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alfred Victor Verville (born November 16, 1890 in Atlantic Mine, Michigan, died 1970) was an aviation pioneer and designer who contributed to civilian and military aviation. During his 47 years in the aviation industry, he led the design and development of nearly a dozen commercial and military airplanes. He is known for his design of flying boats, a cantilever monoplane with retractable landing gear: the Verville-Sperry R-3, military racing airplanes, and a series of commercial cabin airplanes. His wife was Bertha M. Kamrath, married 1917, with whom he had two daughters, Betty and Janet and a son Bud. Verville worked for General William "Billy" Mitchell while working at the United States Army Air Service.