Real life Rosie the Riveter; worked B-29 line in Wichita, KS. Volunteer on Doc restoration. Most of her original rivets from when she installed them at 18 years old were still sound
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
Engineer & space scientist known for work on space elevators/Developed aircraft & spacecraft technology for Air Force, DARPA, NASA. Holds patents & author nearly 100 publications in aircraft, spacecraft, tethers & global climate control
Enlisted US Air Force in 1942 during World War II. Peterburs served in 55th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group, & he piloted a P-51 Mustang; on 10 April 1945, he shot down Walter Schuck's Me 262
Test pilot/Assigned as one of the project pilots on the Rogallo paraglider research vehicle (Paresev) program. He made his first Paresev research flight on March 14, 1962
Transported President George W. Bush to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego, California on 1 May 2003. The flight officer was Lieutenant Ryan Phillips
(Born 1921) USAAF WW2 Veteran. Served from 1942 to 1945. B-17 Pilot with the 365th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group. He was shot down and was a POW from 1944 to 1945. Recipient of 1 Distinguished Flying Service Cross and a Purple Heart
NASA pilot - Global Hawk high-altitude aircraft and small remotely piloted aircraft. He also flies NASA's B200 King Air mission support aircraft. And flew the MQ-9 Ikhana, which carried instruments for environmental Earth science studies
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
1922 with Army Air Service, where he was one of the 1st enlisted pilots. After a Miami air show in 1934, was invited to inspect Cuba?s air facilities & pilots, & became head of Cuban Air Force. Originated the Cuban Eight aerial maneuver
(August 17, 1929 - August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident