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Aviation Pioneers

Refers to powered flight, not riding in balloons
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First to fly
Wright
First to fly across the English Channel
Bleriot
First to fly solo across the Atlantic
Lindbergh
First to land on a Navy ship
Ely
First to die in a plane crash
Selfridge
Before raiding Tokyo, was the first pilot to fly entirely on instruments
Doolittle
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Earhart
Dutch WWI designer of German planes
Fokker
Builder of the Spruce Goose
Hughes
Builder of the first mass produced helicopter
Sikorsky
Leading American Ace of WWI
Rickenbacker
Colorful leading German Ace of WWI
Red Baron
Top Allied Ace of WWI
Fonck
Builder of the ubiquitous Gooney Bird
Douglas
First aviator in space
Gagarin
First American to orbit the Earth
Glenn
First aviator to walk on the Moon
Armstrong
Army pilot court martialed for aviation advocacy
Mitchell
Built a wind tunnel near the base of his Tower
Eiffel
Austrian researcher into supersonic speed
Mach
French aviator, not a tennis player
Garros
Skunk Works founder who built the SR-71 and U-2
Johnson
First to break the sound barrier
Yeager
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2 Comments
Magarara
+1
Level 53
Aug 18, 2016
This is an interesting and educational quiz.
texdave
+1
Level 56
May 30, 2017
Richtofen should but does not work for WW1 German ace. Even Baron Richtofen does not work.
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