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Aviation History

Can you identify these aircraft, people, places, events or miscellany which have played a part in the not so long history of aviation.
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He sketched an 'aerial screw' in 1489, an early predecessor to the helicopter
Leonardo da Vinci
Last name of the French brothers who made the first manned flight in a hot air balloon
Montgolfier
German pioneer who was the first person to make successful glider flights in the 1890's
Otto Lilienthal
First name of the Wright brother who made the first successful powered flight in 1903
Orville
First person to cross the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft
Louis Bleriot
Nickname of WW1 fighter ace, Manfred von Richthofen
Red Baron
Year in which Charles Lindbergh made his non-stop solo transatlantic flight
1927
... and the name of the aircraft used for that transatlantic flight
Spirit of St. Louis
Nickname for the giant wooden aircraft designed by Howard Hughes
Spruce Goose
Early aviation pioneer and the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia in 1930
Amy Johnson
Company responsible for the design of the legendary Spitfire aircraft
Supermarine
Holder of the first patent for a turbojet engine on which most modern jets are based
Frank Whittle
Nickname of the Boeing Superfortress which dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Enola Gay
Aircraft in which Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947
Bell X-1
First purpose-built jet airliner which first flew in 1949
de Havilland Comet
National airline of Spain
Iberia
UK's iconic delta wing strategic bomber which saw its RAF introduction in 1956
Avro Vulcan
USA's largest international air carrier from 1927 until its collapse in 1991
Panam
Soviet supersonic competitor to Concorde
Tupulev Tu-144
Large German passenger-carrying rigid airship which crashed spectacularly in 1937
Hindenburg
Year in which the Boeing 747 'Jumbo Jet' made its maiden flight
1969
Spy plane in which Gary Powers was shot down over the USSR in 1960
Lockheed U2
Russian-American aviation pioneer, particularly in the field of helicopters
Igor Sikorsky
European aircraft manufacturer and major competitor to Boeing
Airbus
Name of either of Tokyo's major international airports
Narita or Haneda
Name of the aircraft which made the first non-stop, around the world, flight in 1986
Voyager
Common name for an aircraft's Flight Data Recorder or Cockpit Voice Recorder
Black Box
Brazilian aerospace company that produces a large range of different aircraft types
Embraer
Pilot of the aircraft in the "Miracle on the Hudson" crash landing in 2009
Chesley Sullenberger
Name of Boeing's successful 787 twin engine airliner
Dreamliner
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