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 […]
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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 […]
Paul Poberezny and Tom Poberezny
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 […]
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 […]