Famous Aviators

By jgm
  • The Wright Brothers

    The Wright Brothers
    The Wright Brothers made the first flight to last longer than five minutes.
  • Harriet Quimby

    Harriet Quimby
    On August 1, she was the first women in the United States to get her pilots lichens.
  • Richard Bong

    Richard Ira Bong was America's "Ace of Aces" He was born in September 24 1920. He was a lieutenaunt.
  • Amelia Earhart

    Amelia Earhart
    January 11, 1935, she was person to fly solo over the pacific ocean.
  • Igor Stavinsky

    Igor Stavinsky
    Igor made the first practical helicopter. he made the first practical helicopter in
  • Buzz aldrin

    Buzz aldrin
    Buzz was the second man to land on the moon. He flew with Armstrong. He lives at 82 this day.
  • Neil Armstrong

    Neil Armstrong
    Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk the moon.His footstep is still there becauses there is no wind.
  • Jaminson

    Jaminson
    Mae Jaminson was the fifth Afercian American to be up in space and she was the first woman Afercian American to be up in space.
  • First non stop flight

    Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard fle non stop from Chateaux d'Oex, Switzerland, to Dakhla, Egypt. They did it in 19 days, 21 hr., and 55 min, but it was in a ballon.(March 1–21 1999)
  • Chuck Yeager

    Chuck Yeager
    "Charles Elwood Yeager enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1941 and received his pilot’s wings in March 1943." He was nicknamed chuck. "He downed a German aircraft before being shot down over occupied France durring his 18th mission on March 5, 1944."