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Wilbur Wright
American aviator
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Orville Wright
American aviator
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William E. Boeing
American businessman
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator
A photograph of Igor Sikorsky holding a model aircraft.
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes
American manufacturer, aviator, and motion-picture producer
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart
American aviator
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Olive Ann Beech
American businesswoman
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Louise McPhetridge Thaden
American aviator
Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran
American pilot
Watch the “Gossamer Albatross” the first human-powered plane crossing the English Channel in 1979
Paul Beattie MacCready
American aeronautical engineer
Clément Ader.
Clément Ader
French inventor
Andrey N. Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer, 1968.
Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev
Soviet aircraft designer
Louis Blériot standing before his Type XI monoplane, which he flew across the English Channel on July 25, 1909.
Louis Blériot
French aviator
V-22
Richard Ten Eyck
American industrial designer
John Knudsen Northrop, American aeronautical designer, 1949.
John Knudsen Northrop
American engineer
Alberto Santos-Dumont, 1931.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Brazilian aviator
Focke-Wulf Fw 190, German fighter plane of World War II.
Kurt Tank
German aircraft designer and test pilot
Bell Jet Ranger 206-B
Charles Wilfred Butler
American industrial designer
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Charles Lanier Lawrance
American aeronautical engineer

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(Left) Ball of predictions with answers to questions based on the Magic 8 Ball; (right): Rubik's Cube. (toys)
The Dating Game: Which Came First?
Hindenburg zeppelin crashing, 1937
Transportation and Technology Firsts Quiz
Concorde. Front end of one of the 20 Concorde supersonic airplanes. A joint British French production they flew for 30 years (1973-2003).
Navigating the Sky
NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.
Man-Made Birds in the Sky