Inducted in 1971 First Military Officer To Pilot An Airplane, 1908. First Fatality In Powered Aviation, 1908 1882 – 1908 Lieutenant Thomas Etholen Selfridge, a young West Pointer from San […]
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Wilbur & Orville Wright
Inducted in 1966 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 […]