100 Heroes of Aviation
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Honoring 100 Aviation Heroes
Tuesday, December 16
The 100 Heroes honored, by decades, are:
- 1903-1913
- Louis Blériot
- Glenn Curtiss
- Baroness Raymonde De Laroche
- Benjamin Foulois
- Samuel Langley
- Glenn Martin
- Ludwig Prandtl
- Harriet Quimby
- Charlie Taylor
- Theodore Von Kármán
- Orville Wright
- Wilbur Wright
- 1903-1913
- Geoffrey De Havilland
- Donald Douglas
- Allan Lockheed
- William "Billy" Mitchell
- Edward "Eddie" Rickenbacker
- Sir Thomas Sopwith
- Elmer Sperry
- Lawrence Sperry
- Elmer Stone
- Baron Manfred von Richthofen
- 1913-1923
- Geoffrey De Havilland
- Donald Douglas
- Allan Lockheed
- William "Billy" Mitchell
- Edward "Eddie" Rickenbacker
- Sir Thomas Sopwith
- Elmer Sperry
- Lawrence Sperry
- Elmer Stone
- Baron Manfred von Richthofen
- 1923-1933
- Walter Beech
- William Boeing
- Clyde Cessna
- Jimmy Doolittle
- Amelia Earhart
- Robert Goddard
- William Lear, Sr.
- Charles Lindbergh
- James McDonnell
- Willi Messerschmitt
- Wiley Post
- 1933-1943
- Frank Andrews
- Harry Combs
- Benjamin Davis
- Ernst Heinkel
- Elrey Jeppesen
- Clarence "Kelly" Johnson
- Jack Northrop
- William Piper, Sr
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Igor Sikorsky
- Cyrus "C.R." Smith
- Hans J.P. Von Ohain
- Sir Frank Whittle
- 1943-1953
- Henry "Hap" Arnold
- Richard Bong
- Jacqueline Cochran
- Marcel Dassault
- Charles Draper
- Barry Goldwater
- Robert "Bob" Hoover
- Curtis LeMay
- Francis Rogallo
- Paul Tibbets, Jr.
- Hoyt Vandenberg
- Charles Yeager
- 1953-1963
- A. Scott Crossfield
- Hugh Dryden
- Yuri Gagarin
- John Glenn
- Jeanne Holm
- Sergei Pavolovich Korolev
- Walter "Wally" Schirra
- Bernard Schriever
- Alan Shepard
- Wernher Von Braun
- 1963-1973
- Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
- Neil Armstrong
- Frank Borman
- Michael Collins
- Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.
- James Lovell, Jr.
- Geraldine Mock
- Robin Olds
- Thomas Stafford
- Valentina Tereshkova
- 1973-1983
- George Brown
- Daniel "Chappie" James
- Martha King
- Donald "Deke" Slayton
- Emily Howell Warner
- 1983-1993
- George H. Bush
- Mae Jemison
- Joe Kittinger
- Bruce McCandless
- Tom Poberezny and Paul Poberezny
- Sally Ride
- Burt Rutan
- Dick Rutan
- Patty Wagstaff
- Jeana Yeager
- 1993-2003
- Colleen Barrett
- Margaret Sidonie Sansom Bosin
- Eileen Collins
- Jane Garvey
- Marion Jayne
- Shannon Lucid
- Sheila Widnall
