Inducted in 1996 Founder and President, Experimental Aircraft Association Paul Poberezny, 1921-2013 Tom Poberezny, 1946 – Paul H. Poberezny is one of the most decorated men in the international aviation […]
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Francis and Gertrude Rogallo
Inducted in 1995 Developed The First Successful Flexible Wing Francis Rogallo 1912 – 2009 Gertrude Rogallo 1914 – 2008 Francis Rogallo began his career as an engineer with the National […]
Eugene B. Ely
Inducted in 1994 First Aviator To Take Off From A Ship, 1910, And First Aviator To Land On A Ship, 1911 1886 – 1911 Eugene Burton Ely, a civilian pilot […]
President George Herbert Walker Bush
Inducted in 1994 First Military Flyer To Become President Of The United States, 1988 1924 – 2018 George Bush was the first rated military combat pilot to be elected President […]
Rear Admiral Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
Inducted in 1993 The First American In Space, 1961 The Fifth Man To Walk On The Moon, 1971 1923 – 1998 Naval aviator Alan Shepard lifted off from Pad 5 […]
Robert M Stanley and Lawrence C Craigie
Inducted in 1992 First Americans to Pilot a Jet Aircraft, 1942 Robert M. Stanley 1912 – 1977 Lieutenant General Lawrence C. Craigie 1902 – 1994 America entered the jet age […]
Sir Frank J. Whittle
Inducted in 1991 Pioneer Developer Of Turbo-jet Aircraft Engines 1907 – 1996 Sir Frank J. Whittle experimented with and constructed turbo-jet engines in pre-World War II England. In 1929 he […]
Hans-Joachim Von Ohain, Ph.D.
Inducted in 1991 Developed The Engine Powering The World’s First Jet Plane 1911 – 1998 In 1935, German-born Hans-Joachim Pabst Von Ohain patented a jet propulsion engine design similar in […]
Colonel Yuri A. Gagarin
Inducted in 1990 First Person In Space, 1961 1934 – 1968 Colonel Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, Soviet Air Force, became a Soviet hero as the first person to break the bonds […]
Major General Albert F. Hegenberger
Inducted in 1989 Developer Of All-Blind Flight Control System 1895 – 1983 Major General Albert Francis Hegenberger’s pioneering work in instrument flying and navigational systems led to modern aviation equipment, […]