Aviation
These goos are from the Aviation category, people famous for notable feats of flying and airborne record-breaking. Browse another way.
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 »
