Inducted in 1968 First Person To Pilot An Aircraft At Supersonic Speed, 1947 1923 – 2020 On October 14, 1947, Captain “Chuck” Yeager, a World War II fighter pilot, became […]
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Amelia Earhart
Inducted in 1968 First Woman To Fly Solo Across The Atlantic, 1932 First Pilot To Fly Solo Hawaii To California, 1935 1897 – 1937 Amelia Earhart made world headlines with […]
Jacqueline Cochran
Inducted in 1968 First Woman To Pilot An Aircraft Supersonically, 1953 1906 – 1980 On May 18, 1953, aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to pilot an aircraft supersonically. […]
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd
Inducted in 1968 First To Fly Over The North Pole, 1926 First To Fly Over The South Pole, 1929 1888 – 1957 Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett were the […]
Charles A. Lindbergh
Inducted in 1967 First Non-Stop Solo Flight From New York To Paris, 1927 1902 – 1974 Charles Lindbergh was not the first pilot to fly across the Atlantic: there were […]
Wilbur & Orville Wright
Inducted in 1966 First To Achieve Successful Powered Flight In A Heavier-Than-Air-Machine, 1903 Wilbur Wright: 1867 – 1912 Orville Wright: 1871 – 1948 The Wright brothers made the world’s first […]