Walter Herschel Beech
aircraft company founder
Floyd Bennett
co-pilot of the first airplane flight to the
North Pole
Louis Blériot
first person to fly an airplane across the
English Channel
Douglas Corrigan
his claim to fame was an "accidental
flight"
Amelia Earhart
record-breaking passenger and pilot
Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker
aircraft builder
Amy Johnson
record-breaking pilot
Samuel Pierpont Langley
creator of time zones and builder of a
steam-powered airplane
Otto Lilienthal
glider builder and pilot
Charles Augustus
Lindbergh
the first person to make a nonstop transatlantic
flight
Albin Kasper Longren
airplane builder and pilot
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Glenn Luther Martin
airplane designer and builder
Thomas DeWitt Milling
one of the very first U.S. Army pilots
Wiley Hardeman Post
record-breaking pilot
Eddie Rickenbacker
automobile racer, America's first air ace, race
track owner
Alberto Santos-Dumont
the first man to fly a heavier-than-air craft in
Europe
Thomas Etholen Selfridge
Igor Sikorsky
designer of the first four-engine airplane, first
practical amphibious airplane, and first
helicopter
Aurel Vlaicu
builder of the first Romanian airplane
The Wright Brothers
builders of the first successful piloted airplane
Ferdinand Adolf August
Heinrich Graf von Zeppelin
builder of the world's first rigid dirigible
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