Steven Ferencz Udvar-Hazy (or Steve Hazy) (born 1946, Budapest, Hungary) is the Chairman and CEO of International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), which is one of the two largest aircraft lessors in the world (the other being GECAS.) As of 2006 he is the 83rd richest American with a net worth of US$3.1 billion. The Udvar-Hazy family came to the United States in 1958, fleeing the Soviet occupation of Hungary. Hazy attended the University of California, Los Angeles.

Major General Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930) is a former American astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was "Gemini 10", when he and command pilot John W. Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins undertook two EVAs. His second spaceflight was "Apollo 11" where he served as the command module pilot.

The Collier Trophy is an annual aviation award administered by the U.S. National Aeronautics Association (NAA), presented to those that have made "the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America, with respect to improving the performance, efficiency, and safety of air or space vehicles, the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year." Robert J. Collier, publisher of "Collier's Weekly" magazine, …

Patty Wagstaff (born September 11, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an aerobatic pilot from the United States. Wagstaff traveled all over the world as a child: her father was a pilot for Japan Airlines, and Wagstaff would travel to Southeast Asia, Australia and Alaska to prepare for her own career as a pilot. Her first lesson was on a Cessna 185; since then, she has earned licenses to fly multiple aircraft, including commercial helicopters.

Wiley Hardeman Post (November 22, 1898 - August 15, 1935) was the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Also known for his work in high altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the first pressure suits. His plywood aircraft, the "Winnie Mae" is on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center adjacent to Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia, and his pressure suit is being prepared for display at the same location.

John Logsdon is chairman of the Space Policy Institute at The George Washington University. Logsdon is on the board of directors of the Planetary Society, and was a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, NASA Advisory Council. He is frequently cited as an authority on space policy by press entities such as "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post". Logsdon is also a professor of political science and international affairs, …

John D. Anderson, Jr. (October 1, 1937) is the Curator of Aerodynamics at the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Anderson is active and known for his professional and educational activities both nationally and internationally. He has given over 40 short courses to the major aerospace companies, the Air Force Academy, …

Stan Stokes With more than 38 years as a full time artist, Stan has produced literally hundreds of paintings documenting historical events, people and places. He researches his subjects to assure the accuracy of the smallest detail to preserve its relationship in time. His work hangs in two presidential libraries and soon a third. Commissioned by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, …

A Belgian printmaker and painter, Paul Van Hoeydonck (Born 1925) studied both archeology and art history in Antwerp, Belgium. His first one man exhibition took place in that city in 1952. During the following years van Hoeydonck both lived and worked in Belgium and in the United States. His art is now included in the collections of leading museums in Europe and America.

Curtis Pitts of Stillmore, Georgia, was a designer of a series of popular aerobatic biplanes, known as the Pitts Special. Curtis grew up in Americus, Georgia and his first aiplane was a WACO F. The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC has called the plane Pitts created in 1943 "revolutionary because of its small size, light weight, short wingspan and extreme agility". Curtis Pitts died of complications from a heart valve replacement.

Betty Skelton Frankman (1926) is a retired land speed record car driver and airplane pilot.

Richard T. Schlosberg is an American business leader who has served as publisher and CEO of the Denver Post; as president, publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times and as president and CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Schlosberg graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965. As a young Air Force officer, Schlosberg served two tours of duty in Southeast Asia where he flew over 200 combat support missions as a KC-135 pilot.

Richard Lippold (3 May 1915-22 August 2002) was an American sculptor, known for his geometric constructions using wire as a medium. Lippold was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and worked as an industrial designer from 1937 to 1941. After he became a sculptor, Lippold found himself on several university faculties, including that of Hunter College at the City University of New York, from 1952 to 1967.

Ronald Edward George Davies (b. 1921) is a specialist in airline and air transport history. His expertise also extends to commercial aviation economic research. He worked for the Ministry of Civil Aviation and British European Airways, then for the Bristol Aeroplane Company and de Havilland before moving to the United States in 1968 to lead market research for Douglas Aircraft.

Daniel Ford (1931 -) is an American author and journalist. The son of Patrick and Anne Ford, he was educated at public schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of Manchester in England. He served in the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg and in Orleans, France. Following an apprenticeship at "The Overseas Weekly" in Frankfurt, Germany, he became a free-lance writer in Durham, New Hampshire.

Kim Reed-Campbell (b. 1975) is a pilot in the U.S. Air Force. Campbell, daughter of the Mayor of San Jose (and former U.S. Air Force Captain) Chuck Reed, gained favorable notice when she successfully piloted her A-10 Warthog back to base in southern Iraq despite receiving heavy damage during a combat mission over Baghdad. She joined the Civil Air Patrol when she was 13 and made her first solo flight over the skies of San Jose at the age of 16.

Charles O. Perry (born 1929) is an American sculptor particularly known for his large scale public sculptures. Perry initially studied architecture at Yale University graduating in 1958. He then joined the firm of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill in San Francisco where he continued to work as an architect until 1963. At the same time, Perry started developing some of his own ideas in sculpture and in 1964 staged his first one-man show of sculptural models in San Francisco, …

Arthur Emmons Raymond (March 24, 1899, Boston Massachusetts - March 22, 1999, Santa Monica, California) was an aeronautical engineer who led the team that designed the DC-3. Raymond grew up in Pasadena, California, the son of the owner of a luxury hotel. He completed a B.A. at Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering at MIT in 1921. Raymond spent his entire career at the Douglas Aircraft Company.

Howard Koslow (born 1924) is an illustrator. Some of Koslow's works are at the United States Air Force Academy and The Pentagon. Several of his paintings which were commissioned by NASA are on exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C. and the NASA Art Gallery, Kennedy Space Center.

Philip Jamison (1925-) is an artist working primarily in watercolour. His inspiration comes mainly from the environs of his home in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and his summer home in Vinalhaven, Maine, typical subjects being landscapes, seascapes, interiors and flower arrangements. Jamison's work has been widely exhibited at museums and galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, …

James Hart Wyld (1913-1953) was an American engineer and rocketry scientist. In 1931 he joined the American Interplanetary Society, later renamed the American Rocket Society. He worked on many of the early tests of liquid-propellant rockets by the society. Meanwhile he completed his B.S. in mechanical engineering at Princeton University in 1935. In 1936 he developed the concept of a regeneratively cooled liquid rocket motor.

Peter Lloyd (born 1944) is a freelance illustrator specializing in advertising and digital artwork. Lloyd was born in England in 1944, but moved to the United States in 1959, where he was the youngest student to graduate from the Art Center College of Design with a master's degree. Lloyd provided art to several large advertising clients in the 1960s, including National Geographic and the National Football League.

Howard Alan Smith, PhD., is a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and is the former chair of the astronomy department at Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. A well-known research scientist with several hundred scholarly publications, he served as a visiting astronomer at NASA headquarters. Active in public education, he has been recognized by Harvard for excellence in teaching.

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