All-Time Top 100 Stars of Aerospace and Aviation

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All-Time Top 100 Stars of Aerospace and Aviation

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I ran across this while doing some research. Nothing new, but still fun. You should recognize a lot of these names.

1. Wilbur and Orville Wright
2. Wernher von Braun
3. Robert Goddard
4. Leonardo da Vinci
5. Glenn Curtiss
6. Charles A. Lindbergh
7. William L. "Billy" Mitchell
8. Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson
9. Neil A. Armstrong
10. Daniel Bernoulli
11. Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager
12. Otto Lilienthal
13. Buzz Aldrin
14. William Boeing
15. Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
16. Henry H. "Hap" Arnold
17. Manfred von Richthofen
18. Samuel P. Langley
19. Igor I. Sikorsky
20. Jules Verne
21. John K. Northrop
22. Herb Kelleher
23. Edward V. "Eddie" Rickenbacker
24. Jacques-Etienne and Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
25. tie Christopher Kraft / Antoine de Saint-ExupÈry
26. Curtis LeMay
27. Ernst Mach
28. Juan Trippe
29. Elbert "Burt" Rutan
30. Theodore von Karman
31. Alberto Santos-Dumont
32. James Van Allen
33. Alexander Graham Bell
34. Ben Rich
35. Alvin M. "Tex" Johnston
36. Richard Branson
37. Yuri Gagarin
38. Octave Chanute
39. James "Jimmy" H. Doolittle
40. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
41. Robert "Bob" Crandall
42. Space Shuttle Challenger Crew
43. Louis Bleriot
44. Donald Douglas
45. Claire L. Chenault
46. Will Rogers
47. James A. Lovell, Jr.
48. Robert "Bob" Hoover
49. tie Thomas H. Kelly / ClÈment Ader
50. Hugh Dryden
51. Pierre-Georges LatÈcoËre
52. tie Marcel Bloch (Dassault) / Roger BÈteille
53. Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom
54. Ferdinand von Zeppelin
55. Jacqueline Auriol
56. Arthur C. Clarke
57. Isoroku Yamamoto
58. Daniel and Harry Guggenheim
59. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
60. Robert J. Collier
61. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington
62. Elmer Sperry
63. James "Jimmy" Stewart
64. Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan
65. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
66. tie Patricia "Patty" Wagstaff / Frank Whittle
67. tie Carl Sagan / Sergey Korolyov
68. Albert Boyd
69. RenÈ Leduc
70. John W. Young
71. Gene Roddenberry
72. Valentina Tereshkova
73. Thomas E. Braniff
74. Walter C. "Walt" Williams
75. Jean Mermoz
76. Henri and Maurice Farman
77. Paul Poberezny
78. Jean Bertin
79. Sally K. Ride
80. Roland Garros
81. Osborne Reynolds
82. Amelia Earhart
83. Georges Guynemer
84. H.G. Wells
85. Jean-Pierre HaignerÈ
86. tie James S. McDonnell, Jr. / Robert Esnault-Pelterie
87. tie Allan and Malcom Loughhead (Lockheed) / Marcel Bouilloux-Lafont
88. Richard Bong
89. John H. Glenn, Jr.
90. tie James E. Webb / Freddie Laker
91. Lawrence Sperry
92. Douglas Bader
93. Howard Hughes
94. Willy Messerschmitt
95. Louis Breguet
96. William A. Moffett
97. William "Bull" Halsey
98. George Mueller
99. Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe
100. Boris Petrov

You can read the full article here from Aviation Week
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