Names To Conjure With

If you are anything like the usual aviation enthusiast you’ll have a list of famous names in your head that you can quote at parties to bore your friends like, Wilbur and Orville, Bleriot, Richthofen, Lindbergh, Sikorsky, Whittle, Yeager and such but I wonder if you can place some of the others who deserve recognition.

 

Charlie Taylor

 

Hans Von Ohain

 

Ohain’s HeS8 jet engine

 

The He178

 

The He280

 

Gloster E-28

 

Olive-Ann and TravelAir

 

The Staggerwing

 

Doolittle and the Mystery Ship

 

Louise Thaden

 

 

Bessie Coleman

 

Mae Jemison

 

Houdini

 

Colin Defries

 

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