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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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Officer and pilot of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during WWII. (Born 1918). Buchenwald concentration camp survivor
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WWII Fighter pilot. Shot down a German ME 262 jet figher and a German Arado AR 234 jet bomber. Flew with the 82nd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group (1944/1945) to April 1945) 61 combat missions (167:40 combat hours in a P-47, 107:50 in a P-51)
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Aerobatics pilot
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Aviation History!
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Retired Air Force member, worked as an VIP Air Force Crew Member, served various times on Air Force One, Air Force Two, and First Lady Missions. Lead Usher for President George H W Bush Funeral. Traveled w/several Presidents, First Ladies and other distin
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British airway pilot that survived crash
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Tuskegee Airman- Pilot
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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(Born 1941) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 2 Legion of Merits, a Distinguished Flying Cross, and a Purple Heart
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Member of Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron
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German World War II Luftwaffe 70-victory flying ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He held the position of Geschwaderkommodore of fighter wing Jagdgeschwader 51
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NASA test pilot - X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft, and is assigned to Armstrong's F/A-18, F-15, T-34 research and mission support aircraft and DC-8 airborne science aircraft
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Born 1943 US Navy Vietnam and Gulf War Veteran. POW in Vietnam from May 1972 to March 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, 3 Legion of Merit's, and Distinguished Flying Cross
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COO and formerly Vice - President of security, Delta Airlines
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WW2 fighter ace - 11 Kills - USAAF
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Tuskegee Airmen original pilot
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Member of the famed ''Flying Tigers'' before and during WWII.
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SR-71 test pilot
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'Tuskegee Airmen' '301st Fighter Squadron & 332nd Fighter Group' flew the pt-17, bt-13, at-6, p-39, p-40, p-47, p-51, at-11, b-25
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British bomber pilot awarded the Victoria Cross in August 1940
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Author/'Flyers of Barron Field'
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Amanda Lee (2)Lee became the first female demonstration pilot for the Navy's famed Blue Angels team
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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Chief Engineer for the Solar System Exploration Directorate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California
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Tuskegee Airman
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot) (flew the bt-13, at-6, c-47, co-pilot on lockheed electra and dc-3)
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(born 18 July 1921) was a highly decorated Leutnant der Reserve of the Brandenburgers in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He was Rommel's personal and favorite combat driver
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US Air Force Gen. & VP running mate of George Wallace in 1968/ credited designing & implementing effective, but controversial systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of WW2/headed Berlin airlift
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Female pilot during WWII (WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 5 victories (between 23 May 1944 and 14 June 1944), plus a probable 3 damage claims. 49th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group, 15th Air Force; European Theater
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WWII American Fighter Pilot Ace.
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(Born 1935) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. Started his naval career in 1958. He flew with VA-176 from 1961 to 1964, which included a deployment during the Cuban Missile Crisis. POW in Vietnam from 1972 to 1973
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'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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NASA pilot - X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft, F-15, F-18, T-34 and King Air, as well as the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
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Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame, born 1923. WWII RCAF pilot, flew cover on D-Day. Post war flew for Canada's NATO and Air Defense Command, made Brig. General in 1970
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Mercury 13 Female Candidate & Aviator
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Jim was the USMC Pilot who nearly saved Gus Grissom's ill fated Liberty Bell 7, as it flooded with water and sank to the bottom of the sea following it's splashdown on 7/21/61, author - Short Tales By A Tall Pilot (2013)
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P-38 Lightning Ace during WWII-[7 victories] Member of the 475th Fighter Group
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German pilot
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Apollo-Skylab Flight Controller; played by Clint howard in APOLLO 13
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top ace of the world-353 kill ww2-russian front
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Britt Lincoln (2)Award winning daredevil aerobatic pilot
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Aviator, American Icon
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aviator grandson of charles lindbergh
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WW2 USN Flying Ace, 8 Victories!
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, was at Wheeler Field when attack started
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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US Military officer, civil servant (1887-1971) Army Capt. for WWI airmail service. Transferred to PO's first airmail supervisor in 1918. Then into private aviation, known as the father of commercial aviation
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Chronicled in Captain Carole: How One of the Navy's First Female Pilots Fought Sexism, Saved 114 Souls on US Airways Flight 70, and Exposed a Coverup (by Carole Leigh Litten with Maynard Poland and David Demers)
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Test pilot
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'Squadron Leader Royal Air Force Abingdon' & 'Test Pilot'
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Flew a P-61A with the 421st NFS. Serial # 42-5512. He had 2 Japanese Ki-61 Tony?s destroyed
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WWII: WWII Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) Pilot; one of only 6 'Attagirls' still alive. Joined the ATA in 1943, flew 100s of ferry missions in Spitfires, Hurricanes and Lancaster Bombers
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1st female F14 Tomcat test poilet
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P-38 Lightning Pilot- fighter Ace during WWII [11 victories]
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Air ace ww11 - 6 Kills - USAAF
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WWII Ace Pilot/ 23rd Fighter Group
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WWII vet, born 1920. Last living member of the Flying Tigers pilot unit that worked in China, Burma, and Thailand
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Radar specialist for Lockheed Skunk Works; only person listed by name in declassified files of A-12 Oxcart program
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USAAF WWII Flying Ace, 31st FG, 309th FS - 5 Kills. Born August 7, 1923. Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_G._Loving,_Jr
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Korean War fighter Ace (9 kills)- USAF - POW Viet Nam
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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NASA research pilot, flies the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a modified Boeing 747SP with the world's largest airborne astronomical observatory, and the Gulfstream III (G-III) mission support aircraft
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Col. Lukas, 'Tuskegee Airmen', graduated at what is now Tuskegee University, Alabama. First African American woman in the Air Force to be promoted to the rank of colonel.Wiki:
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Flew the B-52 mothership for the X-1 flight. (The 'Mothership' is the aircraft from which the X-1 aircraft & Test Pilot is launched from) also commanded the t-34, t-37, t-33, b-57, t-38, f-104, kc-135, t-39, a-26, a-1, ec-137, c-5
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F-22 test pilot
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'Squadron Leader for Royal Air Force'
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Tuskegee Airmen 'LA Chapter'
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(Born 1940) US Air Force Vietnam War Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Air ace ww11 - 6.5 Kills - US Navy
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S-3 Viking pilot Cmdr. John 'Skip' Lussier, who flew President Bush onto deck the of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft
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Tuskegee Airmen
