The International Aerospace Hall of Fame

of the San Diego Aerospace Museum

Row 1

Joseph and Etienne De Montgolfiers - Immortal French Aero Pioneers Albert Santos-Dumont - Brazilian Aero Pioneer Sir George Cayley - True Inventor of Flight, Premier Scientist Otto Lilienthal - 19th Century Pioneer Aeronautical Experimentalist Auguste and Jean Piccard - Pioneer Aeronauts Glenn Hammond Curtiss - Aviation Pioneer - Inventor - Pilot Jacob Ellehammer - Inventor, Aviation Pioneer Octave Chanute - First Great Aviation Historian Daniel Bernoulli - Physicist and Fluid Dynamicist Orville and Wilbur Wright - Inventors of the Airplane

Row 2

Sir George Edwards - Industrialist Reuben Hollis Fleet - Pioneer Military Aviator, Aviation Industrialist Cyrus Rowlett Smith - Founding President of American Airlines John Leland Atwood - Premier U.S. Aero Engineer William T. Piper - General Aviation Aircraft Manufacturer Frederick H. Rohr - Aero Engineer - Inventor Clyde Vernon Cessna - Founder Cessna Aircraft Company Donald Wills Douglas - Pioneer in Design and Construction of Commercial Aircraft James Smith McDonnell - Aeronautical Engineer - Industrialist Short Brothers - Aviation Manufacturing Pioneers Howard Hughes - Designer - Airline Executive

Row 3

Juan Terry Trippe - Founder of Pan American Airlines Frederick K. Smith - American Industrialist and Air Cargo Executive William McPherson Allen - Aerospace Industrialist Robert Campbell Reeve - Pioneer Alaska Pilot - Airline Executive T. Claude Ryan - Early Aviator - Aircraft Designer - Aviation Industrialist William Edward Boeing - U.S. Aero Industrialist - Air Transportation Pioneer Olive Ann Beech - Aviation Industrialist Walter Herschel Beech - Aviation Pioneer - Aero Industrialist

Row 4

Edward Vernon Rickenbacker - WW I American Fighter Ace John Henry Towers - Admiral U.S. Navy - Champion of Naval Air Power Carl A. Spaatz - General United States Air Force - Distinguished Air Commander Hugh Dowding - Air Chief Marshal, Royal Air Force - Victor in the Battle of Britain Hugh Montague Trenchard - Marshal of the Royal Air Force - Pioneer Military Airman William A. Bishop - Air Marshal, Royal Canadian Air Force Iherbert D. Kelleher - Air Transport Executive and Airline Visionary Charles H. Kaman - Rotary Wing Aircraft Designer and Manufacturer

Row 5

William E. Mitchell - Major General U.S. Air Service - Proponent of Air Power Ira Clarence Eaker - Lieutenant General U.S. Air Force - Tactician - Airpower Advocate Curtis Emerson LeMay - General United States Air Force - Renowned Air Commander Henry Harley Arnold - Pioneer Military Aviator - Champion of Air Power - The only U.S. Air Force Officer to hold 5 star rank Baron Manfred von Richthofen - Gifted German Air Combat Leader Benjamin O. Davis Jr. - Airman and Statesman Marc Andrew Mitscher - Naval Aviation Pioneer Sir Frederick Handley Page - Industrialist William Powell Lear - Engineer - Inventor - Aircraft Manufacturer Sir Richard Branson - Record-setting Balloonist and Aviation Entrepreneur

Row 6

Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith Pioneer Aviator; Explorer Bernt Balchen Pilot - Polar Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd Rear Admiral U.S.N. - Polar Explorer - Scientist Tony LeVier Leading Test Pilot - Flight Safety Advocate Katherine Stinson Pioneer Aviator and International Exhibition Pilot Jacqueline Cochran Premier U.S. Aviatrix Brian Trubshaw and André Turcat Experimental and Developmental Test Pilots George W. Goddard Inventor of Aerial and Space Photography Systems Sir Alan Cobham Long Distance Flight Pioneer John A. Macready Colonel U.S. Air Force - Pioneer Engineering Test Pilot Wiley Hardeman Post American Pioneer Aviator Louis Bleriot French Aero Pioneer

Row 7

James Harold Doolittle Lt. Gen. USAF - Distinguished Aviator - Air Force Commander Charles Augustus Lindbergh The Lone Eagle A. Scott Crossfield Premier Test Pilot Charles E. Yeager Colonel USAF - Premier Test Pilot Elrey B. Jeppesen Creator of the Jeppesen Airway Manual Amelia Earhart U.S. Aviatrix Louise McPhetridge Thaden Pioneer Aviator and Air Race Pilot

Row 8

Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin Colonel, Air Force, USSR - Russian Astronaut Frank Borman Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Colonel, USAF - U.S. Astronaut John W. Young Astronaut - Test Pilot William A. Anders Astronaut James A. Lovell Astronaut Sergei Pavlovich Korolev Rocket Designer Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky Space Pioneer

Row 9

Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Rear Admiral, USN - First U.S. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong U.S. Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. Capt. USN - Pioneer U.S. Astronaut John H. Glenn Col. USMC Ret. - U.S. Astronaut Michael Collins U.S. Astronaut Wernher Von Braun Rocket Scientist Krafft Arnold Ehricke Premier Space Scientist William Hayward Pickering Astro Scientist - Spacepower Advocate Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

Row 10

Glenn Luther Martin Pioneer Aero Designer and Industrialist Andrei Tupolev Designer Sir James Martin Aerospace Inventor and Manufacturer Stanley Hiller, Jr. Helicopter Designer and Manufacturer Lawrence D. Bell Aircraft Designer and Manufacturer

Row 11

Hugh Latimer Dryden Aerodynamicist - Architect of the National Aeronautic and Space Administration Leroy Randle Grumman Aeronautical Engineer - Aviation Industrialist Elbert L. (Burt) Rutan Designer Marcel Dassault French Aviation Industrialist - Statesman - Patriot Hans Joachim-Pabst von Ohain Co-Inventor of the Jet Engine Richard T. Whitcomb Aerodynamicist Frank Wolfe Fink Distinguished Engineer

Row 12

Dr. Robert R. Gilruth Aerospace Scientist and Engineer Clarence "Kelly" Johnson Renowned Aeronautical Engineer Edgar Schmued Aeroplane Designer Edward Henry Heinemann Aeronautical Engineer - Designer Theodore Von Karman Master Scientist - Aeronautical Engineer Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov Aircraft Designer and Manufacturer

Row 13

Reginald Joseph Mitchell Eminent British Aircraft Designer Sir Frank Whittle Air Commodore, Royal Air Force - Producer of the First Practical Jet Engine Lawrence Burst Sperry Pioneer Aviator - Inventor - Aero Engineer Louis Charles Breguet French Aviation Pioneer - Aero Industrialist John Knudsen Northrop Premier Aero Engineer - Inventor Willi Emil Messerschmitt German Aeronautical Design Genius

Row 14

Paul Poberezny Founder of the Experimental Aircraft Association Ivan A. Getting Physicist, Engineer and Aerospace Visionary Claude Dornier Industrialist Karel J. Bossart Pioneer Space Scientist Henrich K.J. Focke German Aviation Pioneer - Helicopter Designer Henri Farman Pioneer Waldo D. Waterman Inventor - Aero Engineer

Row 15

Sir Sydney Camm British Aircraft Designer Artyom Ivanovich Mikoyan Aircraft Designer Hugo Junkers Pioneer German Aircraft Designer - Civil Airline Advocate Juan de la Cierva Pioneer of Rotary Wing Flight James Howard Kindelberger Aeronautical Designer - Industrialist Ernst Heinkel German Aeronautical Engineer - Industrialist Hermann Oberth Pioneer of Rocketry and Astronautics

Row 16

Issac Machlin Laddon Aeronautical Engineer - Inventor Igor I. Sikorsky Aero Engineer - Inventor Alexander Martin Lippisch Pioneer German Aerodynamicist Sir Thomas O. M. Sopwith Pioneer Aviator - Aero Engineer - Industrialist Edwin A. Link, Jr. Pioneer Flight Simulator Designer Ludwig Prandtl Father of Aerodynamics

Row 17

Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin Pioneer Airship Designer Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker Pioneer Dutch Aircraft Designer Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard Inventor - Scientist - Rocket Pioneer Grover Loening U.S. Aviation Pioneer - Engineer - Inventor Sir Geoffrey De Havilland British Aircraft Designer - Founder of the De Havilland Company Gianni Caproni Aviation Pioneer Premier Italian Aircraft Designer and Manufacturer Sir Alliot Verdon-Roe Pioneer Aeronaut - Aircraft Designer - Aero Industrialist

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