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Ellen Church - The First Flight Attendant

Mon, 16 May 2011 20:42:00 +0000

A great innovation in aviation was made in a scheduled flight with Boeing Air Transport (BAT), now United Airlines, 81 years ago on last Saturday when the first flight attendant served tables in the air. But her job was quite different from what we’re used to today.

Alberto Santos-Dumont

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:27:00 +0000

Alberto Santos Dumont, the son of Brazilian millionaire, became the leading balloon pioneer around the beginning of last century. Alberto was designing aircrafts at the same time that the Wright brothers were at Kitty Hawk and he would later design several balloons, airplanes and helicopters.

Juri Gagarin

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:09:00 +0000

On the 9th of March, 1934, Juri Alexejewitsch Gagarin was born in Kluschino to a Russian carpenter, who worked with his wife on a collective farm. Juri, the third of four children spend most of his childhood in his hometown Kluschino but would later become a hero in Russia.

Charles Lindbergh

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:52:00 +0000

Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born in Detroit 1902 and grew up on a small farm in Minnesota. His father was a lawyer from Sweden who served as a congressman and his mother a chemistry teacher. Charles went on to become one of the most famous and inspiring aviators in the world.

Bessie Coleman

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:15:00 +0000

Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman aviator, was born on January 26th 1892 in Atlanta, Texas and died April 30th 1926 in Jacksonville, Florida. She was not only the first African American woman to get a pilot license but she was also the first to get an international pilot license.

Rita Maiburg

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:47:00 +0000

The German pilot Rita Maiburg (1951-1977) became the first female captain in the western, despite some difficulties. However, managers did not believe that the passengers would trust a woman in the cockpit. For this reason she was announced as "Captain Maiburg".

Patrick Pohler

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:04:00 +0000

Patrick Pohler is a private pilot, the creator of CircleToLand.com and the owner of Anecka, a Columbus, Ohio-based software development company. In January 2010, Pohler launched CircleToLand.com, a pilot-focused question and answer platform that allows aviators to communicate with one another and receive answers to their aviation-related questions.

Steve Fossett

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:42:00 +0000

Steve Fossett is one of the most famous adventurers in the world. He has made well over 100 world records of which almost half are still standing. Many of his records he made while flying balloons, airship and powered aircrafts. In addition he holds several gliding records.

Tony Fernandes

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:59:00 +0000

Anthony Francis Fernandes, known by most as Tony Fernandes is the CEO and part-owner of AirAsia. AirAsia. Tony has made AirAsia the largest low-cost airline in Asia. He was the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd. and later took over AirAsia in 2001 to make it a no-frills, low-cost airline based on the Southwest Airlines and Ryan Air business models.

Robert Esnault-Pelterie

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:55:00 +0000

Robert A. C. Esnault-Pelterie was born in Genevia November 8, 1881. Esnault-Pelterie became famous for its aircraft design and aeronautical and spaceflight theories. He studied Engineering at the University of Paris (Collège de Sorbonne). He has been credited for designing the aileron, now a standard in every aircraft, although Aerial Experiment Association in the United States has been credited for the same thing. Esnault-Pelterie made his first powered flight in 1907 in his Aerodrome Toussus-le-Noble, four years after the Wright Brothers. Esnault-Pelterie passed way in December, 1957.