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Capt. Hawthorne C. Gray
Lt. John Macready
Amelia Earhart
Cornelius Coffey
Lt. Oakley Kelly
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Willy Ley
Louise Thaden
Flight Crew of the NC-4
Charles Lindbergh
Eugen Sänger
Lt. Leslie P. Arnold
Yuri Vasilievich Kondratyuk
Nikolai Alekseevich Rynin
Chauncey Spencer
Lt. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle
Gawain Edward "Ed" Pendray
James Hart Wyld
Lt. Lowell Smith
Sergei Pavlovich Korolëv
Robert Hutchings Goddard
Ruth Nichols
Pioneers of Naval Aviation
Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie
Calbraith Perry Rodgers
Friedrich Tsander
C. Alfred Anderson and Albert Forsythe
James Herman Banning
Walter Hohmann
The Tuskegee Airmen
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
Hermann Ganswindt
Wernher von Braun
Willa Brown
Max Valier
Frank Joseph Malina
William T. Piper
Hermann Julius Oberth
Auguste Piccard
Bessie Coleman
Albert W. Stevens
William J. Powell Jr.
Noel F. Parrish
Hermann "Noordung" Potočnik
Flying Leathernecks U.S. Marine Corps Aviation
Yakov Isidorovich Perel’man
Philip Ellaby Cleator
Janet Bragg
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
C. G. Taylor
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