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 […]
Tag: First Flight Society
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, […]
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 […]
Dick Rutan, Jeana Yeager and Burt Rutan
Inducted in 1987 Voyager, First To Circumnavigate The Globe Non-Stop Without Refueling, 1986 Burt Rutan, 1943 – Dick Rutan, 1938 – Jeana Yeager, 1952 – The “Voyager” was the first […]
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 […]