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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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