AVIATION PIONEERS
Adler, Clément (1841–1926)
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–)
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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