Vladimir Pavlecka (1901-1980) was a Czech-American inventor and aircraft designer. He was the chief inventor of flush riveting and held other important patents. Pavlecka was born May 20, 1901 in the village of Charvatce, near Roudnice nad Labem, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire but is now Czechia. One of the factories in the town considered branching out into aircraft production and acquired a Blériot XI. Examining this machine inspired the teenaged Pavlecka with a lifelong interest in aviation. Vladimir Pavlecka, 1979, Los Angeles Times