Famous Aviators

• Boyington, Gregory 'Pappy'

  The World War II pilot made famous on TV's Baa Baa Black Sheep

• Cochran, Jacqueline

  The aviator who headed women pilots in World War II

• Coleman, Bessie

  The world's first licensed African-American pilot

• Corrigan, Douglas

  The flier who 'accidentally' crossed the Atlantic

• de Saint Exupéry, Antoine

  Author of The Little Prince

• Doolittle, James Harold

  Leader of the bomber attack on Tokyo in 1942

• Earhart, Amelia

  The pioneering female pilot who disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937

• Fokker, Anthony

  "The Flying Dutchman" who built WWI planes for Germany

• Hughes, Howard

  The 20th century's famous billionaire aviator, businessman and recluse

• Kennedy, Joseph Jr.

  The older brother of president John Kennedy

• Lindbergh, Charles

  The first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

• Lubitz, Andreas

  The pilot who crashed Germanwings flight 4U9525

• Markham, Beryl

  The author of the memoir West With the Night

• Messerschmitt, Willy

  Designer of Nazi Germany's Bf-109 aircraft

• Mitchell, William "Billy"

  "Father of the U.S. Air Force"

• Powers, Francis Gary

  The U-2 pilot shot down by the Soviet Union in 1960

• Richthofen, Manfred von

  WW I flying ace known as "The Red Baron"

• Santos-Dumont, Alberto

  Brazilian "Father of Aviation"

• Selfridge, Thomas E.

  The first air crash fatality

• Slayton, Donald K. "Deke"

  The 'Original Seven' astronaut who later flew Apollo-Soyuz

• Sullenberger, Chesley B.

  The pilot who landed flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009

• Wright Brothers, The

  Inventors of the airplane

• Yeager, Chuck

  The pilot who broke the sound barrier

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