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Aviation pioneers are people directly and indirectly responsible for the advancement of flight, including people who worked to achieve manned flight before the invention of aircraft, as well as others who achieved significant "firsts" in aviation after heavier-than-air flight became routine.
Alfred William Lawson (March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954) was an English-born professional baseball player, aviator, and utopian philosopher.He played baseball, managed and promoted leagues from 1887 through 1916, and pioneered the U.S. aircraft industry.
American aviation pioneers, people directly and indirectly responsible for the advancement of flight, including people who worked to achieve manned flight before the invention of aircraft, as well as others who achieved significant "firsts" in aviation after heavier-than-air flight became routine.
This category contains biographical articles about people who made significant pioneering accomplishments in aviation, either as accomplished aviators, or by contributing in some other substantial and lasting way to the art and science of aviation. This is not limited to the early days of aviation history, and may cover pioneering achievements ...
Founder of Pan American World Airways, cited for "public service of enduring value to aviation in the United States" [21] [28] 1967 Igor Sikorsky: Aircraft pioneer whose work resulted in the design and production of the first mass-produced helicopter, the R-4 [21] [29] 1968 Warren Magnuson
Trippe was born in Sea Bright, New Jersey, on June 27, 1899, the great-great-grandson of Lieutenant John Trippe, captain of the USS Vixen. [4] Because he was named "Juan", he is widely assumed to have been of Hispanic descent, but his family was actually Northern European in ancestry and settled in Maryland in 1664.
At an altitude of about 25,000 ft (7.6 km) [14] Walker's Starfighter was one of five aircraft in a tight group formation for a General Electric publicity photo when his F-104 drifted into contact with the XB-70's right wingtip. The F-104 flipped over, and, rolling inverted, passed over the top of the XB-70, striking both its vertical ...
First balloon mail service: passed vital information over Prussian lines during the 1870–71 Siege of Paris. [24] First flight in an airship powered by an internal combustion engine: was made by Alberto Santos Dumont in 1898. [25] First flight of a rigid airship: was made by the Zeppelin LZ 1 from Lake Constance (the Bodensee) on July 2, 1900.