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American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person to walk on the Moon | Neil Armstrong | 100%
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Fascination with her life, career, and disappearance continues to this day | Amelia Earhart | 89%
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Their first U.S. patent did not claim invention of a flying machine, but a system of aerodynamic control that manipulated a flying machine's surfaces. | Wilbur Wright | 72%
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At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize | Charles Lindbergh | 63%
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In 1947, he became the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight. | Chuck Yeager | 44%
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He is considered the ace-of-aces of the war, being officially credited with 80 air combat victories. | Manfred von Richthofen | 37%
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His first business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student | Richard Branson | 20%
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The first viable American helicopter, which pioneered the rotor configuration used by most helicopters today | Igor Sikorsky | 19%
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His $4.9 million estate in the Jumbolair subdivision in Ocala, Florida, is situated on Greystone Airport with its own runway and taxiway right to his house | John Travolta | 15%
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The demonstration was performed at the royal palace in Versailles, before King Louis XVI of France | Joseph Montgolfier | 15%
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He is credited with single-handedly inventing the turbojet engine. | Frank Whittle | 13%
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In December 1931, while attempting some aerobatics, he crashed and lost both his legs. | Douglas Bader | 11%
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In 1909 he became world-famous for making the first airplane flight across the English Channel, | Louis Bleriot | 11%
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She flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary and died during a ferry flight. | Amy Johnson | 9%
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As planned, during descent _______ ejected from the capsule and parachuted to the ground | Yuri Gagarin | 6%
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