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Samuel Pierpont Langley
On this day he attemted to launch his gasoline powered, "Great Aerodrome" off a house boat in the Potomac River. -
Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers first flight. They traveled about 800 feet. -
Glenn Curtiss
On this day he won the Scientific American trophy for flying one kilometer. He built the first sea plane in the U.S. and in World War I his best known plane the JN-4 was widely used. Also, in 1919 another one of his planes the NC-A was the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean. -
Blanche Stuart Scott
Became the first woman to fly solo and went on to be a stunt piolet and test flier. -
Harriet Quimby
On this day she became the first U.S woman to earn her piolets license and the second one in the world. -
Stinson Sisters
Kathrine became the first at the time to become a female piolet at age 16. Two years later Marjorie earned hers. Together they opened a piolet school where the taught their brother to fly. -
Bessie Coleman
She went to France to earn her piolets license. She became the first African woman to recieve her piolets license. The next year she took up barnstorming to open a piolets school for African Americans. -
Charles Lindbergh
On this day he made his first solo flight from New York to Paris on his plane the Spirit of St. Louis. He recieved the Congressional Medal of honor. On March 1st 1932 his 1st child Charles A. Lindberg Jr. was kidnapped. -
Amelia Earhart
She became the passanger to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Four years later she became the first woman to fly a plane alone acrossed the Atlantic. She attempted to fly around the world but her plane crashed. -
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
Became Vice President of Aircraft Corperation nine years later in 1938 he became President of Air Craft Corperation. He shot down 26 German planes in World War II. In 1942 his plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean and he survived 3 weeks at sea. -
Fred Noonan
On this day he accomined Amelia Earhart on her around the world flight. But, they dissapeared somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. -
Beryl Markham
Became the first person to fly solo west across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Willa Brown
Established the first government approved pilots school for African Americans. -
Jacqueline Cochran
Set more records tha anyone at that time. She had masterd every kind of air craft. Also, she trained women to work in World War II. -
Chuck Yeager
On this day he became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. -
Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr.
He became the first African American General in Air Force History.
