Re-Inducted in 2003 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 […]
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John Knudsen Northrop
Inducted in 2002 Pioneer In The Aerospace Industry 1895 – 1981 John “Jack” Northrop’s aerospace career began in 1916 as a mechanical draftsman-engineer for the Loughead Aircraft Company. In 1923 […]
Donald W. Douglas
Inducted in 2000 Pioneer Aircraft Designer And Manufacturer 1892 – 1981 Donald Willis Douglas, native of Brooklyn, New York, contributed to the nation’s aeronautical safety and progress as a designer […]
Harriet Quimby
Inducted in 1999 First Licensed Woman Pilot In America, 1911, And First Woman To Solo The English Channel, 1912 1875 – 1912 Harriet Quimby was born on a farm near […]
Anne Baumgartner Carl and Jean Hixson
Inducted in 1999 First Women To Fly American Military Aircraft; Women Air Service Pilots Anne Baumgartner Carl 1918 – 2008 Jean Hixson 1922 – 1984 During the early months of […]
John P. Stapp, M.D.
Inducted in 1998 Pioneer In Aerospace Medicine 1910 – 1999 John Stapp began his career as a medical officer in the United States Air Force where he organized and founded […]
Colonel Joe Kittinger
Inducted in 1998 First To Fly Solo Across The Atlantic Ocean In A Helium Balloon, 1984 1928 – 2022 Joe Kittinger, a native of Orlando, Florida, and eventually a Colonel […]
Tom Davis
Inducted in 1997 Pioneer In Commercial Aviation 1918 – 1999 Tom Davis was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He fell in love with aviation at an early age when his […]
General Henry H. Arnold
Inducted in 1997 Father Of The United States Air Force; First Five-Star General 1886 – 1950 For 40 years, General Henry H. Arnold worked to advance the cause of American […]
Lawrence B. Sperry
Inducted in 1996 Inventor of the Autopilot, Turn and Bank Indicator, and Parachute Pack 1892 – 1923 Known to his fellow aviators as “Gyro,” Lawrence Sperry was to many a […]