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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Bessie Coleman
Inducted in 1989 First Black Woman Licensed Pilot 1893-1926 Bessie Coleman was born into a poor Texas family, and although she was a bright student, poverty kept her from attending […]
Blanche Noyes and Louise Thaden
Inducted in 1988 First Women To Win Bendix Trophy, 1936 Blanche Noyes 1900 – 1981 Louise Thaden 1905 – 1979 In 1936, Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes won the Bendix […]
Walter R. Brookins
Inducted in 1986 The First Civilian Pilot, 1910 1888 – 1953 The Wright brothers realized that if the science of aviation were to develop, it would first be necessary to […]
Captain Bruce McCandless II
Inducted in 1985 First Man To Walk In Space Untethered, 1984 1937 – 2017 Challenger’s February 1984 flight was America’s tenth space shuttle mission and the first spacecraft of any […]
Commander Theodore G. Ellyson
Inducted in 1984 First United States Naval Aviator, 1911 1885 – 1928 Theodore “Spuds” Ellyson began training in 1910 at the Glen Curtiss flight training school in San Diego and […]
Charles Edward Taylor
Inducted in 1983 The World’s First Airplane Mechanic 1869 – 1956 Charlie Taylor was a silent but essential participant in the Wright Brothers’ success story at Kitty Hawk. In six […]
Albert Scott Crossfield
Inducted in 1982 First To Fly Three Times The Speed Of Sound, 1960 1921 – 2006 On December 10, 1960, a North American Aviation X-15 was launched from beneath the […]