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Jorge "George" Newbery
Jorge "George" Newbery, born Jorge Alejandro Newbery, was an Argentine pilot, civil servant, engineer and scientist of North American descent. Along with Alberto Braniff and Jorge Chávez, Jorge Newbery was one of the first Latin American aircraft pilots. He is also considered to be the architect and founder of the Argentinian Air Force. -
Wilbur Wright
Wilbur and his brother were the first people to make a working airplane that flew over 800 feet. -
Orville Wright
Orville and his brother were the first people to make a working airplane that flew over 800 feet. -
Eugene Burton Ely
In mid November, Ely took off in a Curtiss pusher from a temporary platform over the bow of the light cruiser USS Birmingham. The plane fell downward as soon as it cleared the 83-foot platform runway, and the aircraft wheels dipped into the water before rising. -
Harriet Quimby
She was the first woman to fly across the English Channel. She was one of the first women to get her pilot's license in the US as well in August 1911. -
John William Alcock
Sir John William Alcock , was a Captain in the Royal Air Force who, together with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland. Maurice took John on as a mechanic at the Brooklands aerodrome, Surrey, where he learned to fly at Ducrocq's flying school, gaining his pilot's licence there in November 1912. -
Friedrich "Fred" Zinn
Friedrich "Fred" Zinn was a volunteer American aviator who flew with French Armée de l'Air forces in World War I and an early pioneer of aerial photography for wartime William and Military intelligence. Fred Zinn lived in Battle Creek, Michigan. While visiting France in August 1914, he joined the French Foreign Legion shortly after the outbreak of World War 1. He was one of the group who signed the American Volunteer Corps flag in Paris on October 17, 1914, before departing for Rouen. -
Artur de Sacadura Freire Cabral
He conducted the first flight across the South Atlantic Ocean, He disappeared on 15 November 1924 while flying over the English Channel. -
Bessie Coleman
Bessie was the first African-American to fly an airplane. Then she opened the first African-American flight school and put her brothers and sisters and other African-Americans who wanted to be pilots in her flight school for African-Americans. -
"George" P.S.W. Bulman
Flying life lasted 30 years and was a test pilot in the Royal Aircraft Establishment. -
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh flew an airplane from France to Paris. He saw a crowd of people waiting for him. But, then he realized that he might kill some people with his propellers. As soon as he did what he did to get away from the people he became an instant hero and was called "The Lone Eagle". -
Max Conrad
Maximilian "Max" Conrad, known as the "Flying Grandfather", was a record-setting aviator. In the 1950s and 1960s, he set 9 official light plane world records, three of which still stand at the end of 2008. For his efforts, he was awarded the Louis Blériot medal in 1952, and the prestigious Harmon Trophy in 1964. Winona Municipal Airport, also known as Max Conrad Field, in Winona County, Minnesota is named after him in his honor. -
Adriano Visconti
One of Italys' best war pilots. -
Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes
Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes was a pioneer aviatrix, the founder of the first test pilots union and the owner of the Happy Bottom Riding Club, a bar and restaurant. She broke Amelia Earhart's air speed record in 1930. She was a member of the Ninety-Nines, and raced in the Women's Air Derby. -
Roscoe Turner
He made 2 transcontinental speed records. One was traveling eastward and the other westward. Roscoe flew from LA to NY in 15 hours, 37 minutes. Traveling back, he took 18 hours, 42 minutes. -
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was the first women ever to fly as a pilot over the Atlantic ocean. -
Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran
She not only became one of the worlds best aviatrixes for either gender, and one of the worlds best pilots for either gender.By 1938, Jackie was said to be the best female pilot in the United States. She won the Bendix and set a new transcontinental speed record. Also she set altitude records (now Jackie wasn't just beating female records, but also male records). -
Alex Henshaw
Alexander Adolphus Dumfries Henshaw MBE was a British air racer in the 1930s and a test pilot for Vickers Armstrong during World War 2. -
Chuck Yeager
He was the first person to break the sound barrier. This was his first Mach 1 flight. -
Jacqueline Auriol
One of the first woman to break the sound barrier and set 5 world record speeds. -
Marlon Green
Following his Supreme Court victory, Green flew for Continental from 1965 to 1978, initially piloting Vickers Viscounts out of Denver. He became a captain in 1966. -
Mike Bannister
Mike Bannister is an airline pilot. He is most famous as the Chief Pilot of British Airways' Concorde fleet, a post which he held from 1995 until its withdrawal from service in 2003. He joined the British Airways crew of Concorde in 1977 where he became its youngest pilot. In his Concorde career Bannister accumulated around 9,000 flight hours almost 7,000 of which were Supersonic. Bannister captained the Concorde's retirement flight, from New York to London on October 24th 2003.
