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• Armstrong, Neil Alden (1930–)
• Blanchard, Jean Pierre François (1783–1809)
• Blériot, Louis (1872–1936)
• Cayley, George (1773–1857)
• Cierva, Juan de la (1895–1936)
• Cobb, Geraldyn ("Jerrie") (1931–)
• Cody, Samuel Franklin (1862–1913)
• Crossfield, Albert Scott (1921–2006)
• Curtiss, Glenn Hammond (1878–1930)
• DeFrance, Smith J. (1896–1985)
• Doolittle, James (1896–1993)
• Dornier, Claude (1884–1969)
• Dryden, Hugh Latimer (1898–1965)
• Earhart, Amelia (1897–1937)
• Esnault-Pelterie, Robert (1881–1957)
• Glenn, John Herschel (1921–)
• Hatry, Julius (1906–2000)
• Hunsaker, Jerome C. (1886–1984)
• Johnson, Clarence L. (Kelly) (1910–1990)
• Kármán, Theodore von (1881–1963)
• Kittinger, Joseph W. (1928–)
• Langley, Samuel Pierpoint (1834–1906)
• Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
• Lilienthal, Otto (1848–1896)
• Lindbergh, Charles (1902–1974)
• Low, Archibald Montgomery (1888–1956)
• Lundin, Bruce T. (1919–2006)
• Messerschmitt, Wilhelm (1898–1978)
• Montgolfier brothers
• Piccard, Auguste (1884–1962) and Jean Félix (1884–1963)
• Rutan, Elbert L. ("Burt") (1943–)
• Tupolev, Andrei (1888–1972)
• Von Ohain, Hans Joachim Pabst (1911–1998)
• Walker, Joseph Albert (1921–1966)
• Whittle, Frank (1907–1996)
• Williams, Walter C. (1919–1995)
• Wright brothers and the dawn of powered flight
• Yeager, Charles ("Chuck") E. (1923–)
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