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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