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Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German army officer and airship inventor and builder. He entered the Prussian army in 1858 and served in the Seven Weeks War and in the Franc... |
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Blériot, 1st Flight across The Channel - 1909
Louis Blériot was a French aviator, inventor and engineer. In 1909 he completed the first flight across a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft when he crossed... |
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Alberto Santos-Dumont, Pioneer of Aviation
Alberto Santos-Dumont was an early pioneer of aviation. He was born and died in Brazil. Heir of a prosperous coffee producer family, Santos-Dumont dedicated himself to sc... |
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Charles Rolls, Co-founder Rolls Royce
The Honourable Charles Stewart Rolls was, together with Frederick Henry Royce, a co-founder of the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. Rolls started one of Britain's firs... |
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Anthony Fokker, The Flying Dutchman
Anton Herman Gerard 'Anthony' Fokker was born in Kediri (Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia) and became a Dutch aircraft manufacturer. At age 20 Fokker created his first pl... |
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The Red Baron, German Pilot WW1
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen was a German pilot and is still regarded today as the "ace of aces". He was a very successful fighter pilot, military leader and... |
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Hermann Goering, Hitler's Successor
Hermann Wilhelm Göring (also Goering in English) was a German politician and military leader, a leading member of the Nazi Party, second in command of the Third Reich, an... |
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Amelia Earhart
Becomes the first woman (and second person) to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in her single engine Lockheed Vega and the first person to cross the Atlantic twice by a... |
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French aviator and writer, real life hero who looked at adventure and danger with poet's eyes - sometimes from the viewpoint of a child. Saint-Exupéry's most famous work... |
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Charles Lindbergh, Aviator
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Other pilots had crossed the Atlantic be... |
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Wright brothers, First Flying Airplane
Between 1899 and 1905, the Wright Brothers conducted a program of aeronautica research and experimentation that led to the first successful powered airplane in 190 an... |
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Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (1905-1976) was arguably the most secretive and self-destructive man ever to win fame in Southern California’s two glamour industries --- movies... |
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Neil Armstrong, 1st Man on the Moon
As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first piloted lunar landing mission, Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first person to step on the surface of the M... |
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Yuri Gagarin, 1st Man in Space
April 12, 1959 : Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to travel in space. The son of a carpenter, Gagarin grew up on a collective farm in Saratov (later renamed Ga... |
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