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Alfred Anderson

He trained America's first black air force and proved to the first lady that people of color could fly. Go »

Amelia Earhart

This female flyer set her first world record by using a canary. Go »

Bessie Coleman

High in the sky above France, she make history by living and dying at the controls of a plane. Go »

Charles Lindbergh

This record-setter was into transatlanticism long before Death Cab for Cutie. Go »

Chuck Yeager

If you asked this WWII fighter pilot his name at the event that made him most famous, you wouldn't hear his answer. Go »

Douglas Corrigan

Crossing the Atlantic had already been done but always on purpose. Go »

George Aird

This respected aviator ejected from an English interceptor prototype and broke both legs after crashing through a greenhouse - but survived to fly again. Go »

Guy Menzies

Ninety years ago, he crossed the Tasman Sea and proved that even a crash landing is still enough to qualify a flight for the record books. Go »

Howard Hughes

This high-flying businessman and director once soared the skies, but eventually wouldn't leave his apartment. Go »

Jean Mermoz

He got lost, possibly because he had drawn a map with a line between France and Argentina. Go »

Manfred von Richthofen

dog nemesis and pizza mascot Go »

Orville & Wilbur Wright

Without these two bicycling brothers, humans might never have left the surface of the Earth. In tribute, a chunk of wood from their greatest accomplishment was brought on board Apollo 11. Go »

Otto Lilienthal

This German inventor of the hang glider died a few short years before his rivals in Kitty Hawk conquered the skies forever. Go »

Otto Lilienthal

Many can claim that they were the first success story in flight, but this member of aviation royalty has the pictures to prove it. Go »

Robert F. Six

F4r h1s v4c4t10n, th1s h0n3ym00n3r pr0b4bly c4ught 4 tr4ns-c0nt1n3nt4l fl1ght. Go »

Steve Fossett

One record this air head probably won't set is the most correct guesses in a week. Go »

Thomas Fitzpatrick

To win a bar bet, this drunken pilot landed a stolen plane on a Manhattan street. Two years later, a fellow patron's disbelief resulted in him doing it again. Go »