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People who have made a significant historical contribution to aeronautics or aviation.

Subcategories

• Barnes, Florence
• Earhart, Amelia
• Eckener, Hugo
• Jakobsen, Gidsken
• Lindbergh, Charles
• Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville
• Women
• Wright Brothers
• Yeager, Chuck
• Zeppelin, Ferdinand Graf von

Resources in This Category

• A Lucky Pilot

  http://www.concordiaexpeditions.com/luckypilot/
  A narrative memoir of Lanky Ahmad, a pilot in the Pakistan Military. Includes a photo gallery.

• Calderara.com

  http://calderara.com/
  History of Mario Calderara, Italian aviator. Includes historic aviation links.

• Dick Rutan

  http://www.dickrutan.com/
  Commander of the 1986 flight of the Voyager as it made the first non-stop, unfueled flight around the word. Biography and activities.

• Flight of Excelsior

  http://www.flightofexcelsior.net/
  Public information site on the life and accomplishments of Emilio Carranza. Contains a biography and photo gallery.

• Fokker at Plane Writing

  http://www.xs4all.nl/~blago/planewriting/fokker.html
  Quotes from, and about, early aviator, aeroplane constructor and general mad inventor Anthony Fokker.

• Glenn Curtiss: Father of Naval Aviation

  http://www.glenncurtiss.com/
  Information and photos focused on the birth of naval aviation, based on writings and photos of John H. Whitney, Curtiss' personal secretary and photographer.

• Lawrence Hargrave: Australian Aviation Pioneer

  http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/
  This site celebrates the life and work of Lawrence Hargrave, 1850 - 1915, one of Australia's aviation pioneers.

• Lincoln Beachey

  http://www.lincolnbeachey.com/
  Information about the life and career of Lincoln Beachey, who flew professionally between 1905 and 1915.

• Mario Calderara, Aviator and Inventor

  http://www.calderara.com/mario/
  Pioneer of aviation, Italian pilot license n.1 and first military pilot in the world. First Italian to be trained by the Wright brothers. Site in English, Italian and French.

• Pioneer Pilot, Walter E. Lees, 1887-1957

  http://home.earthlink.net/~ralphcooper/index.htm
  Walter E. Lees, Pioneer Pilot, soloed in 1912 and continued in aviation until 1945.

• Plane Writing: quotes from early pilots' biographies

  http://www.xs4all.nl/~blago/planewriting/
  Vintage writing about flying from biographies of pilots - Beryl Markham, the Lindberghs, Roald Dahl, Nevil Shute, st. Exupéry and many lesser known aviators.

• Stearman World Flight

  http://www.stearmanworldflight.com/
  Information on the Stearman World Flight with the "Super 450 Stearman."

• The mystery of Thomas Smith's transatlantic flight.

  http://www.geo-met.com/tommysmith/
  This site details Thomas Smith's bold transatlantic flight of 1939 in his 65hp "Baby Clipper," later found at Newfoundland, Canada. Smith however was never found. Here's the man, the aircraft, and the last minutes of his fateful flight.

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