Names To Conjure With
from Plane Tales
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 Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the USAF, the Air Force Research Lab, Embryriddle, RAF/IWM, SDASM, Flugkerl2, BAC, NASA, Museums Victoria,
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