Happy Birthday Bill Milliken!

Bentley Publishers is proud to wish Bill Milliken a very Happy 98th Birthday!

Bill's acclaimed autobiography Equations of Motion: Adventure, Risk and Innovation is now available in paperback with brand-new material written exclusively for this edition.

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Selected highlights of Bill's remarkable life and career:

April 18th, 1911 - Bill Milliken born in Old Town, Maine
September 5, 1933 - Bill designs, builds and flies his M-1, the first home-built airplane in the state of Maine
May 1934 - Bill graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
January 1940 - Bill joins Boeing flight development team for the B-17 heavy bomber, later to be used in WWII
September 21, 1942 - As member of the initial flight crew, Bill participates in the Boeing B-29's first test flight
September 1, 1947 - Bill places 6th as the SCCA's first entry in the Pike's Peak Hill Climb (SCCA Competition License No. 6)
October 2, 1948 - Bill races in Watkins Glen Grand Prix, the first postwar road race and the site of the now-famous "Milliken's Corner"
December 31, 1950 - Bill races at the very first endurance race at Sebring, the 6 hour "Sam Collier Memorial Grand Prix of Endurance"
December 1956 - Bill establishes the Vehicle Dynamics Department at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory
May 1, 1976 - Bill starts his own engineering/consulting firm, Milliken Research Associates
December 1994 - Bill's book Race Car Vehicle Dynamics published to wide acclaim
October 1996 - Bill returns to Bridgehampton to race in his original FWD Miller, courtesy of current owner Dean Butler
July 12, 2002 - Bill races his MX-1 Camber Car at the 2002 Goodwood Festival of Speed hill climb
November 1, 2006 - Bill's autobiography Equations of Motion published by Bentley Publishers