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Director and head pilot of Ad Astra Aero, later becoming Swissair; [134] first north-south crossing of Africa (7 Dec 1926 – 21 Feb 1927); [citation needed] pioneer of aerial photography (Spitsbergen, 1923; Mount Kilimanjaro, 1929); [citation needed] personally flew/delivered a Fokker to Emperor Haile Selassie I (1934).
December 28 – Exhibition pilot Frank Hawks takes 23-year-old Amelia Earhart on her first flight – a 10-minute "hop" Earhart's father had arranged and paid $10 for – at a state fair in Los Angeles, California. Both Hawks and Earhart will becomes famous aviators in the years ahead for various firsts and records.
Lea Gabrielle, American fighter pilot turned journalist, Correspondent for Fox News Channel Rajiv Gandhi , prime minister of India 1984–1989, son of India's first female prime minister Indira Gandhi
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, and author. On May 20–21, 1927, he made the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris, a distance of 3,600 miles (5,800 km), flying alone for 33.5 hours.
Francesco de Pinedo (February 16, 1890 – September 2, 1933) [1] [2] was a famous Italian aviator.A Regia Marina (Italy's Royal Navy) officer who transferred to the Regia Aeronautica (Italy's Royal Air Force), he was an advocate of the seaplane and is best known for his long-range flying boat flights in the 1920s that demonstrated the feasibility of global air travel.
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa was born 27 January 1920 in a mountain village in the ... Nishizawa applied and qualified as a student pilot in Class Otsu No. 7 of the Japanese ...
That plan was derailed when her father took her to an air show in Long Beach, California, in 1920. Edwin Earhart paid $10 for a pilot, the aptly named Frank Hawks, to take his 23-year-old daughter ...
In June 1929 the parachute-maker Irving Parachute Company, hired her to tour the United States, flying a Bellanca Pacemaker on a 6,000-mile (9,700 km) tour, making the 18-year-old Smith the first female Executive Pilot. On this tour, at the air races in Cleveland, Ohio, she was the pilot for an unprecedented seven-man parachute drop. [1]