Maurice A. Garbell; Aviation Consultant, Airport Designer

Maurice A. Garbell, 75, a pioneering aviation consultant who helped design major airports around the world. Garbell was one of the first to propose a plan that saw noisy jetliners climb steeply in order to avoid residential neighborhoods near airports. During World War II, he was a top aerodynamicist for Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, now General Dynamics in San Diego. There he designed aircraft wings and wrote the first book on tropical and equatorial meteorology. After the war, he moved to San Francisco and worked as an aviation consultant. On Feb. 24 in San Francisco after what was described as a short illness.